Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Watched it over the last two nights. Thought it was about two hours too long. Was bored by the third episode.

Probably would have been better condensing it into one extended episode.
Totally disagree. I have zero attention span and can get bored of a programme pretty easily, but this left me pretty gripped. Solid 7.5/10 tv
 
Amazing how fast the government are acting on this, is almost as if they need it out of the public mind because there’s a General Election coming along.

Great to see, but begs the question of why it hasn’t been taken seriously prior to the programme being aired?
You just watch. Sunak will announce the quashing of all convictions and want to take great credit for it
 
i think the bigger scandal than this is the light it shines on society and how we are now governed by the media, there is so much of this shit going on and people just dont care about it until it hits the tv or youtube and people are tried by the court of public opinion rather than the law.
public opinion !! how do they form an opinion, ? newspaper headlines are still the main influencers to a majority of the public. Say no more, from the top to bottom, the press is corrupt, deeply involved in attacking accountability, by what it ignores, due to the incestuous relationship the owners have with the governments throughout the last forty years, and the judiciary must take their share of the blame, but wont of course. There is wig ceiling that justice never breaches..
 
I have followed this for years and the most disturbing thing I find is that if this TV series wasnt made this shit would still be going on.

People are treated like scum by the corporate and business world, the Post Office were just unlucky they got caught is the way they will see it.
 
the fact it was made at all is the biggest surprise to me, " and the walls came down , all the way to hell, never saw them when they're standing, never saw them when they fell".... for some reason, this has touched a nerve when other even worse atrocities have been given a shrug and a meh...
 
I have followed this for years and the most disturbing thing I find is that if this TV series wasnt made this shit would still be going on.

People are treated like scum by the corporate and business world, the Post Office were just unlucky they got caught is the way they will see it.
Showing my ignorance, but if the Post Office was nationalised, and had used this Horizon system, would this shit show still have happened?
 
Don’t see how, you needed all those stories to show the impact, that poor Asian lady who had electric shock therapy! My wife said she was on tv the other morning and she is fucked, she deserves millions in compensation for what’s happened to her.
She's lost all recollection of her life before that treatment. No childhood memories or anything. She's utterly broken.
 
It's really sad isn't it.

I think a problem with the PR was that the post office is seen as being a bit of a 'boring' subject so it didn't capture the imagination of the public in the same way as say an NHS or banking scandal would.
Nah, it's that people can't be arsed reading more and don't really care until the facts are spread out before them whilst having their tea.
 
Having spent a great deal of my working life in BT telecommunications I never once doubted the truth of the investigation into the scandal.
In other words the bosses are above reproach so never gave it a second glance
 
Its not often that my job title hits the front page of the Telegraph.

Architect of postal scandal demands immunity

"The architect of the faulty Horizon IT system, (Gareth Jenkins) who gave evidence used to convict sub-postmasters, has demanded immunity before agreeing to appear at the public inquiry."
Should be arrested, detained and charged with telling lies and withholding information from and inquiry and then perjury if he continues to lie and withhold information.

Forget all this immunity bollocks.
 
A I taking over 55 thousand job losses at BT will make it even harder to prove your innocence if wrongly accused of theft.
The idea someone was awarded a CBE for being head of this scandalous operation sickens me it tells us how corrupt as a democracy we have become.
 
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I see the Lib Dem’s defence of Ed Davy is he relied on what he was told by the PO.

This really speaks to the problem of MPs “with portfolio”, do they actually try and get across any of the detail or just sit with a fancy job title staring out the proverbial window? Leadership is a choice, they chose to lead. So lead.

I have responsibility’s for things in my day job and when someone tells me something I ask questions to validate their thinking and make sure they’ve thought about everything - when I relay what I’m told to my bosses it’s my responsibility to give them accurate information - I can’t later say what I was told wasn’t right blame that person. I don’t need to understand the topic at hand either, often I don’t, it’s just basic common sense.
 
Totally disagree. I have zero attention span and can get bored of a programme pretty easily, but this left me pretty gripped. Solid 7.5/10 tv

Probably the fact that I already knew the story and how it was going to end didn’t help in the boredom stakes.

It’s an important story that clearly needed telling. But just purely from an entertainment point of view, dragged on a bit for me.
 

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