Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[I'm not really here]

Blair brought the Horizon system in despite Brown’s concern it was poor. He wanted to encourage Japanese investment here.

Labour are to blame for this scandal.

While everyone is playing politics over who's to blame. The victims are still waiting for compensation and justice....can we leave the labor did this, Tories did that at the door.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Blair brought the Horizon system in despite Brown’s concern it was poor. He wanted to encourage Japanese investment here.

Labour are to blame for this scandal.

Fuck me there’s a huge difference between putting a system in and years later ruining the lives of thousands of people. Was any of this even known about before 2010? I certainly hadn’t heard anything about it that early

 

[ShorehamCitizen]

Blair brought the Horizon system in despite Brown’s concern it was poor. He wanted to encourage Japanese investment here.

Labour are to blame for this scandal.

Utter twat he was, big massive oversized teeth and a war in Iraq, now this mess he left behind.

 

[blueste41]

Fuck me there’s a huge difference between putting a system in and years later ruining the lives of thousands of people. Was any of this even known about before 2010? I certainly hadn’t heard anything about it that early

You have got to be frikin kidding!!!!! You've either not been paying attention or your burying your head in the sand?
Prosecutions started in 2000, Alan Bates (you might of heard of him?) was accused of 2 instances of false accounting in 2000 and was dismissed by POL in 2003!
As I have said countless times in this thread I have been aware of the wrongdoings since 2003!
The JFSA was in full swing by 2009 and there had been numerous articles about the scandal before that date, the first big expose by Computer Weekly was published in 2009.
Your suggestion that nothing was known before 2010 is an insult to the nearly 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted during that time! Their lives were ruined long before the tories came to power.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You have got to be frikin kidding!!!!! You've either not been paying attention or your burying your head in the sand?
Prosecutions started in 2000, Alan Bates (you might of heard of him?) was accused of 2 instances of false accounting in 2000 and was dismissed by POL in 2003!
As I have said countless times in this thread I have been aware of the wrongdoings since 2003!
The JFSA was in full swing by 2009 and there had been numerous articles about the scandal before that date, the first big expose by Computer Weekly was published in 2009.
Your suggestion that nothing was known before 2010 is an insult to the nearly 700 sub-postmasters prosecute during that time! Their lives were ruined long before the tories came to power.

I think it’s fair to say that culpability, executives and politicians, increased as time passed.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Cameron government knew Post Office ditched Horizon IT investigation

Documents show the secret investigation may have helped wrongly accused postmasters prove their innocence.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[blueste41]

I think it’s fair to say that culpability, executives and politicians, increased as time passed.

That is fair to say, to say nothing was known pre 2010 isn't.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

That is fair to say, to say nothing was known pre 2010 isn't.

That is fair to say too!

 

[Blue Mist]

Cameron government knew Post Office ditched Horizon IT investigation

Documents show the secret investigation may have helped wrongly accused postmasters prove their innocence.

www.bbc.co.uk

This now needs to be taken out of Parliaments hands, given to a specialist police team and immediate action taken. The trouble is, the only ones that can order that are the corrupt politicians.
In 2016 at least 2 high ranking politicians knew the PO. were scrapping the investigation after it revealed the flaws and therefore miscarriages of justice. MP's should be going to prison for Perverting the Course of Justice.

 

[blueste41]

This now needs to be taken out of Parliaments hands, given to a specialist police team and immediate action taken. The trouble is, the only ones that can order that are the corrupt politicians.
In 2016 at least 2 high ranking politicians knew the PO. were scrapping the investigation after it revealed the flaws and therefore miscarriages of justice. MP's should be going to prison for Perverting the Course of Justice.

The police can now only investigate what politicians say they can? When did that change in the law happen?