No 2 Nuisance Calls campaign launched by Mike Crockart
August 29, 2012 Ian Shires 15 Comments

Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West Mike Crockart has launched his No 2 Nuisance Calls campaign. The Liberal Democrat MP has written a joint letter to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport and Lord McNally, Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, to demand that they legislation around cold-calling via people’s homes and mobile phones be strengthened and rigorously applied.

Mike Crockart said: “I am fed up of nuisance calls to my landline and mobile as well as unsolicited texts. People shouldn’t have to put up with this menace which puts many vulnerable and elderly people at risk of fraud just as much as if the crook or pushy salesman was turning up at the door.”

Mike Crockart added: “I am calling for the Information Commissioner’s powers to be strengthened to take in all forms of unsolicited contact and for there to be a single, simple point of contact for any individual wishing to protect their privacy from unwanted calls, texts, faxes and emails.”

The campaign is being supported by The Sunday Post. Mike Crockart says he has already been inundated with Sunday Post readers contacting him since the newspaper announced its support for the campaign. Mike Crockart said: “I’ve already had a good response and am sure the volume of people registering on the website will be overwhelming.”

If you want to help end nuisance calls then follow the link and sign the petition:www.no2nuisancecalls.net

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15 Comments

1
Neill M. Wallace
Wednesday 29 August 2012 - 5:31 pm

Info from ex-call centre worker. The person you speak to does NOT dial any numbers. If you hang up, make noises or just ask for your number to be taken off the data base, they will call back. To stop further calls you have to speak to the MANAGER & ask for your number to be removed from their data base. I have been registered for 5 years with the TPS. Was ok. Now we receive up to 5 calls per day. Before we registered, we were receiving up to 16 call a night. When we complain we are told that they are REPUTABLE companies & the restrictions do not apply to them. Cold calling at door is just as bad. One company called TWICE a day for a week. We have a notice from our local council saying \No callers without an appointment\. This makes no difference.

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mary murdoch
Friday 31 August 2012 - 2:56 pm

The very best of luck with your compaign. I sincerely hope you are successful.

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mary bainbridge
Sunday 2 September 2012 - 3:36 pm

I am another of the people on tps and the pests still get through but anyone else can’t.People saying they are from computer support are right pests I’ve hung up on them and even said I havn’t got a computer but still they phone. They all sound as though they are sitting in india or pakistan as their english is rubbish.Who has given them my telephone number!

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Mrs Moyra Anderson
Monday 3 September 2012 - 8:13 am

Our life is blighted by these nuisance calls at all times of the day – hope the campaign succeeds.

5
vicky ferguson
Monday 3 September 2012 - 5:54 pm

good luck i am sick to death with cold callers

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vicky ferguson
Monday 3 September 2012 - 5:55 pm

sick of cold calls good luck

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claire galloway
Thursday 6 September 2012 - 12:11 pm

About time something was done about these calls. What is the telephone preference site for if not to prevent these.

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gary urquhart
Sunday 9 September 2012 - 12:53 pm

I was all ready to sign up and then I noticed the bit about being contacted by Lib Dems and how I’d need to e mail to opt out.

A bit “pot and kettle” if you ask me. It’s a wothwhile campaign but should not be “political”. If there’s one thing worse thann being contacted by a someone trying to sell me something it’s being contacted by a political party who I’m pretty certain will always let me down!

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yvonne
Monday 10 September 2012 - 9:17 am

just had a phone call from a 0501 number, said i am not interested and right away the woman called me a bloody bitch……………….this is shocking. It needs to stop. The same as uninvited people coming to your door, and junk mail.

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Jennifer Stewart
Saturday 15 September 2012 - 10:02 am

Fed up with these calls pls do something about them

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EDWIN LAWSON
Sunday 16 September 2012 - 3:03 pm

PLEASE CAN WE STOP THOSE CALLS ,ESPECIALLY PPI AND INDIAN CALL CENTRES

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Mr B Holding
Sunday 7 October 2012 - 8:09 am

Pleas .pleas .please stop these nuisance calls I ask repeatedly to take me of their list but they continue to call I now answer the telephone with a grumpy voice expecting a nuisance call
It is changing us into bad manned phone uses as now I am swearing at them.
Pleas stop.

13
Marlene Hadden
Thursday 8 November 2012 - 11:53 am

Stop all thes nuisance calls

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Madge-Louise Robertson
Tuesday 20 November 2012 - 9:04 pm

It is time that nuisance calls were banned. I am a member. Of the TPS, when mentioning this to call companies they often disregard it. As a disabled person it often takes a considerable effort to get to the telephone to have it ring off or the line going silent on answering, how distressing this must be to elderly, disabled and vulnerable adults who live alone.

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Richard Anderson
Sunday 25 November 2012 - 4:41 pm

hope u r successful



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