Mr Bates V's the Post Office

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Mr Bates V's the Post Office

This comment ties in with my earlier post about why the sub-postmasters and mistresses didn't appear to do their own basic booking for say 24 hours which would have proved that their Horizon account was being skewed - and then presented this evidence to the courts.

I haven't seen much mention of something that featured prominently in the ITV series, the deliberate manipulation of Horizon by Fujitsu to manufacture deficits. We hear about gliches in the software, but this was deliberate invasive action and it could only be called a gliche because Fujitsu created a back-door whereby individual accounts could be altered.The purpose being to increase Post Office (and presumably their own) profits

Apologies. I must have missed your missive. We are of the same mind here, it seems.

By the way, a certain someone is doing 4 dates in the UK next May....

[Cyclops]

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Apologies. I must have missed your missive. We are of the same mind here, it seems.

By the way, a certain someone is doing 4 dates in the UK next May....

Sitting down throughout and with a nubile chick singer?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Sitting down throughout and with a nubile chick singer?

You mustn't judge everybody using your own standards

I did see Johnny Winter twice at Wells and Exeter!) and not that long before he died when he was lifted to his stool by two assistants - and he went on to play the most amazing mellow blues set.

[G rangetown Blue]

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Using the Cherry Ghost tune (People) at the end….covered by Birdy 👍

[Cyclops]

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You mustn't judge everybody using your own standards

Quite.
Last nubile chick singer I sat down with was Donna Lewis.

[SOXY BOY]

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I can’t believe the PO was allowed to investigate its own people with its own internal “police force”., and that one of the things that should change immediately. I appreciate money will never compensate for what the post masters/mistresses have been through but they should get at least £1 million each and Fujitsu, never ever be awarded another government contract.

[TWGL1]

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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

Labour Government knew about it. Never trust computers or is it never trust the government. People who question government policies are often called out a lot of the time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67941495

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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The Post Office could owe £100m in tax too as they were claiming tax relief on compensation payments which you're not allowed to do

https://twitter.com/DanNeidle/status/1745920610893434993

[Vindec]

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The Post Office could owe £100m in tax too as they were claiming tax relief on compensation payments which you're not allowed to do
https://twitter.com/DanNeidle/status...20610893434993

£935m was mentioned on the radio this morning but I presume this was the figure that tax was being claimed on.

[TWGL1]

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You’re the only one’ is a common response. Doctors enquiring about thalidomide defects were told that, so were sub postmasters struggling with Horizon.

[life on mars]

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There was an IT system before that which needs looking at .

System's such as this are brought in for a reason, usually accountability , because of known irregular accounting .

Royal Mail has successfully policed itself for decades ..

[Wales-Bales]

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Is it yesterday's chip paper yet?

[BLUETIT]

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Is it yesterday's chip paper yet?

No, following it every day

There is a lying Scottish barstard in the box today

[Cleve van Leef]

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Still in papers today, saying earlier it system was faulty as well and they prosecuted innocents then as well. Also until Sunak stepped in they were still at it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-68089538

Scroll down to I and FT papers

[Feedback]

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they haven't struggled to pay a dividend to their shareholders over the intervening years i see

isn't HMG the owner?