#Post Office Scandal

[useless-englandfacts]

i don’t know if people on this site care about the post office scandal but it is mental that it took an ITV drama for the government to suddenly decide to exonerate the people involved after 20 years of doing nothing

[badkruka]

"You can't just talk nonsense and not be interrupted."

All tories deserve this level of lack of mercy

[xserpx]

Started listening to the Great Post Office Scandal book by Nick Wallis after finishing the Mr Bates vs the Post Office show, and I feel Pratchettian rage at the injustices these subpostmasters are suffering. It's all too similar to the way Reacher Gilt sucked the life out of the semaphore, the sheer incompetence & life-ruining technical faults, how whole communities were affected, the audacity of the Post Office, treating people as things and thinking themselves infallible. Yes, OK, there's a lot of scandals & frauds with those hallmarks, and I shouldn't compare real life with fiction, but the fact it's also about the Post Office and the level of trust people had in that brand, and how that trust was flagrantly taken for granted... I just despair at how right Pratchett was.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

...

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

[mackologists-r-us]

[freenorthnow]

The Post Office IT scandal isn't just a failure of the Post Office. It shows how much the UK's legal system, politics, and media are rigged against ordinary people being treated fairly.

It shouldn't have taken until the ITV drama for anything to change.

[superbeans89]

‘Sorry for screwing over your entire organisation for 25 years. Here’s a knighthood.’

[generalelectionmusings]

Yes, often at 9pm his kids are awake and forcing him to watch paw patrol.

Also, catch up TV is beyond the technical comprehension of this Neanderthal.

They’re just taking the p*ss and making glib jokes, hope this one in particular is gone at the next election.

[thelandofbritain]

It's not just me who thinks the guilty British Post Office executives should get jail time and their fat bonus payments clawed back, then.

They ruined hundreds of lives over many years, tried to cover up their actions, and are now dragging their heels over compensation for the victims.

This is corrupt Britain, where the REAL crooks, fraudsters and incompetents in business and politics get rewarded for screwing us all year after bloody year.

[jazzapples3]

Is tumblr not talking about the British post office scandal? Because the new tv show is making me want to show up to the post office headquarters to just have a little chat. With my fists.

[lost-carcosa]

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Even if the Prime Minister himself asked, the Inspector wouldn’t simply pop back to prevent the Post Office scandal.

If he could save a large number of sub-postmasters from going through all the legal processes they went through? Apparently not.

[possil]

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Adam Smith wrote that there’s a ‘great deal of ruin in a nation’, by which he meant that it takes an awful lot of bungling by political leaders to bring down a state. Over the last few decades the great and the good of the UK seem to have been testing Smith’s proposition to destruction. The Ties Which Bind Britain Together Are Being Corroded Away Whilst nations can withstand incompetence and…

[onlinetrendspro]

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[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Jail Paula Vennells

Vennells already knew at the time of her decision in July 2013, that Gareth Jenkins, an engineer at Fujitsu, who designed the Horizon accounting system, had withheld information from the courts about bugs in the network and was regarded as an “unsafe witness.”

Post Office employees continued until 2015 to be prosecuted and hounded and to take their own lives over apparent shortfalls in funds at their branches caused by faults in Horizon. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/23/paula-vennells-ruled-out-post-office-review-told-would-be-front-page-news

[cynicalclassicist]

It is odd to think that after decades it took a TV drama to bring it to public attention.

Good morning Aye, or afternoon maybe?

Could you explain what the Post Office scandal is about?

Howdy! Sure thing. The Post Office scandal is probably one of the biggest contemporary miscarriages of justice in the UK. To the point where calling it a 'scandal' actually minimises how terrible it is.

To be absolutely clear, the pressure and stress the victims of the 'scandal' had to deal with is linked with 4 suicides. An innocent young mum was jailed while she was pregnant with her second child. Countless others sent to prison or left financially ruined. Marriages and families were destroyed.

To start with, what is a Post Office? Some people might be under the impression that Post Offices in the UK are ran by the Royal Mail. They are not.

The Post Office is a retail company. Most Post Offices are run by franchise owners (In the same way, people can run a franchise of McDonalds). These people are referred to as 'Sub-postmasters'. The scandal saw over 700 sub-postmasters convicted of a number of financial misconduct crimes - straight up theft, fraud, providing false accounts.

The cause of all of this was a SOFTWARE ERROR.

The Post Office's Horizon system was had a fault which reported false shortfalls of money. The Post Office claimed the system was robust, and they went after these people.

The reason why people are talking about it more now is that ITV released a dramatisation of it at the start of the year. Hopefully it leads to convictions being overturned.

[craigminds]

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