SCP campaigns for consumers
The Scottish Christian Party has begun a Consumer Campaigns page to develop its concern for the consumer.
In its 2012 election campaign, the SCP put the consumer at the heart of its campaignon the basis:
1. We are all consumers – every day; not everyone is a tax payer nor a voter.
2. This is why Government taxes consumption; it is a golden goose.
3. We are only occasionally voters, which is why consumers rarely have opportunity to interact effectively with politicians;
4. Thus ordinary people interact with governmental policy as consumers every day. Every VAT sum added to your shopping list, the price of goods in the shop, the standard of service your receive, is a constant, daily reminder of government policy, even more frequent than your weekly or monthly pay packet.
The SCP is interested in individual people, which is why we are interested in your income, your spending, your employment, your living circumstances, and how government interferes with these. Government interferes more frequently than it helps you. This is why we promote smaller government.
Our largest FAQ is about corruption and incompetence in public life.
Help for the small manWe will fight for the consumer, forgotten in this climate of spending cuts but rising prices.
We propose a radical solution to consumer debt to help the consumer by forcing more prudent lending policies. It is too easy to hold consumers to ransom.
In its 2012 election campaign, the SCP put the consumer at the heart of its campaignon the basis:
1. We are all consumers – every day; not everyone is a tax payer nor a voter.
2. This is why Government taxes consumption; it is a golden goose.
3. We are only occasionally voters, which is why consumers rarely have opportunity to interact effectively with politicians;
4. Thus ordinary people interact with governmental policy as consumers every day. Every VAT sum added to your shopping list, the price of goods in the shop, the standard of service your receive, is a constant, daily reminder of government policy, even more frequent than your weekly or monthly pay packet.
The SCP is interested in individual people, which is why we are interested in your income, your spending, your employment, your living circumstances, and how government interferes with these. Government interferes more frequently than it helps you. This is why we promote smaller government.
Our largest FAQ is about corruption and incompetence in public life.
Help for the small manWe will fight for the consumer, forgotten in this climate of spending cuts but rising prices.
We propose a radical solution to consumer debt to help the consumer by forcing more prudent lending policies. It is too easy to hold consumers to ransom.
- 1 Dec 2012: Extortionate parcel service
- 15 Feb 2013: Abuse of postal service: some respectable businesses are writing such things as “Recorded Delivery”, “Urgent items enclosed” on the envelope which are not recorded delivery and are not very urgent. Royal Mail should refuse to deliver items with Recorded Delivery on them, which are not and which surely breach some trading standards somewhere. Royal Mail then become complicit in this breach. If a reply-paid envelope is enclosed, the customer can simply tear off the relevant part of the envelope, tell the business to stop this, and post it back to them. You may want to challenge them whether it is a breach of trading standards