Lammy - £5000 fine for nuisance calls

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 10, 2016 at 11:26

He'll put it on his MP's expenses ?

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Permalink Reply by james walsh on March 10, 2016 at 10:56

What did the person that got 35,000 calls say about this ?

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on March 10, 2016 at 11:10

I THINK most people like being treated as individuals, so an unsolicited, recorded message will have been quite irritating.

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 10, 2016 at 11:21

Having just had yet another unsolicited call ( not as it happens from Lammy ), this has cheered me up

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Permalink Reply by james walsh on March 10, 2016 at 11:26

(note to self, stop wasting the good jokes on this lot)

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on March 10, 2016 at 11:27

Seconded.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 10, 2016 at 12:31

He has my sympathy. One person complained. It wasn't an indiscriminate list (it was Labour members and supporters). He had to buy the list from the Labour Party. I get unsolicited and automated calls all the time asking me if I have claimed my PPI dosh yet.

The person who complained was a member of the Labour Party.... Go figure.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on March 10, 2016 at 17:19

The rules are quite clear.

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Permalink Reply by matt on March 10, 2016 at 12:39

PFI callers/companies are the ones that should be hit with fines. But, there are 1000s of these companies so it's a puesdo industry of parasites that the regulators rarely touch, having been sanctioned to retrieve money for bank customers, with a fee and/or %. Apparently most money has now been paid out so only another 2 yrs of their nuisance calls ... until the next bank scandal.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on March 10, 2016 at 19:51

Here's his response, on the BBC News site:

MP David Lammy apologises over nuisance calls 

http:/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35772202

He said: "I fully accept the Information Commissioner's decision and apologise unreservedly to any Labour Party member or registered supporter that felt upset at receiving an automated call from my campaign.
If I had known that additional permission was required to make automated calls then I would have sought it before any calls were made."

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Permalink Reply by matt on March 10, 2016 at 19:54

Said by a barrister

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