Mr Bates V's the Post Office

[North Cardiff Blue]

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That’s a very high horse you’re sat on there !

You’ve reached that opinion through your eyes, so it’s you who are misogynistic (whatever it means)

I was thinking she’s more inclined to fancy the bush, therefore not requiring a meal of sausage

And he replied to me who said feck all

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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I hope her giving her cbe back doesn't overshadow the need for others to be held to account, including criminal charges if appropriate.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Unfortunately can’t open this unless I join

Use 12ft Ladder to access it: https://12ft.io/

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Twas ever the way.

Do people really give parties lots of cash just out of the goodness of their heart, particularly huge donations from individuals in charge of big companies and corporations? The whole thing is utterly corrupt and not just on the side of the Conservatives. If Labour get into power there'll be people wanting to make donations that will help them get on the ladder.

Money talks. Always will do.

There's a strata/level of society that's conveniently out of reach for all but the best-connected. The UK has been criminally corrupt since WW2. Residences in London worth £50 million+ unoccupied for years, and lower down the sewer of greed, the proliferation of Turkish retail businesses in S.E UK, not to mention 'cash only' establishments. It's endemic...

[splott parker]

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There's a strata/level of society that's conveniently out of reach for all but the best-connected. The UK has been criminally corrupt since WW2. Residences in London worth £50 million+ unoccupied for years, and lower down the sewer of greed, the proliferation of Turkish retail businesses in S.E UK, not to mention 'cash only' establishments. It's endemic...

Yep, people who deal in cash should be hung, drawn and quartered. No crime whatsoever amongst the ‘cashless society’. And those bloody Turks……………

[Alan Lung]

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There's a strata/level of society that's conveniently out of reach for all but the best-connected. The UK has been criminally corrupt since WW2. Residences in London worth £50 million+ unoccupied for years, and lower down the sewer of greed, the proliferation of Turkish retail businesses in S.E UK, not to mention 'cash only' establishments. It's endemic...

Yeah. Whatever.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Yep, people who deal in cash should be hung, drawn and quartered. No crime whatsoever amongst the ‘cashless society’. And those bloody Turks……………

I thought it might be a mistake posting that on here..

[Dorcus]

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The moral of the story is simple: the rich, powerful and prominent members of the establishment are anathema to democracy and can and will wreck lives and livelihoods

[Forest Green Bluebird]

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The Daily Mail has been running with this story for at least 8 years, often headlining it. It's criminal that no-one on Govt. has even bothered to redress the wrongs - until a TV programme brings it to the national conscience..

I wonder if libel claims can be made against newspapers that ran with "sub-postmistress stole money from pensioners".

“We were ostracised in Bridlington," he told Times Radio recently. "We were abused in the streets. Our daughter was bullied. She was on the school bus and spat on by a young boy because [they thought] her father was a thief, and he’d take money from old people.”

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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The moral of the story is simple: the rich, powerful and prominent members of the establishment are anathema to democracy and can and will wreck lives and livelihoods

They will forever rule us as a democracy. They just need to know how much we want that they'll release and that's it.

[William Treseder]

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Found the first episode of this a bit confusing. Alan Bates and his wife say they have lost their jobs, home and savings, but then buy a beautiful detached cottage in North Wales?
Justice and compensation can’t come too soon for these victims of the establishment, but trying to put myself in their place, if I knew I wasn’t stealing cash, and deficit amounts were doubling on a computer screen in front of my eyes,and my employers were unwilling to get to the bottom of it, there is no way I would sign off anything involved with it. I would be harassing the police, my local MP, and the local media.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Found the first episode of this a bit confusing. Alan Bates and his wife say they have lost their jobs, home and savings, but then buy a beautiful detached cottage in North Wales?
Justice and compensation can’t come too soon for these victims of the establishment, but trying to put myself in their place, if I knew I wasn’t stealing cash, and deficit amounts were doubling on a computer screen in front of my eyes,and my employers were unwilling to get to the bottom of it, there is no way I would sign off anything involved with it. I would be harassing the police, my local MP, and the local media.

I read yesterday that the Bates cottage was far smaller than the one depicted in the series. I'm not sure about the rest of their finances.
I wasn't keen to watch the TV min-series after listening to the podcast (as dramatisation can be more manipulative of the viewer than the more factual podcast) but the result of it certainly helped the poor victims.
I did eventually binge-watch it last night, however.

[The Bloop]

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[QUOTE=Forest Green Bluebird;5480961]I wonder if libel claims can be made against newspapers that ran with "sub-postmistress stole money from pensioners".

It wouldn't be libellous if they ran the same story today against anyone still with a conviction.
They wouldn't though.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Found the first episode of this a bit confusing. Alan Bates and his wife say they have lost their jobs, home and savings, but then buy a beautiful detached cottage in North Wales?
Justice and compensation can’t come too soon for these victims of the establishment, but trying to put myself in their place, if I knew I wasn’t stealing cash, and deficit amounts were doubling on a computer screen in front of my eyes,and my employers were unwilling to get to the bottom of it, there is no way I would sign off anything involved with it. I would be harassing the police, my local MP, and the local media.

Which is what he did, he said it's your stupid system not me, but yes some of them were a bit soft and didn't know how to react.