Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[mancboy]

Not even as close as a Hoyjuland* shot.
How about 'Well you're the only one that's rung the helpline......... followed by your prison number is'.
The exact same issues we saw in the programme happened and the exact same response with innocent people losing their jobs, paying back money and even going to jail.

so they blamed user error and then said no one else has flagged this up before doing fuck all, seems an extreme version of the standard civil service playbook

 

[Jimmieblue]

I really hope they go after her and the others complicit in this scandal with the full weight of the law. Always the rich and powerful get away with it whereas the plebs get hung out to dry, now is the time for everyone to be treated equal.

“Everyone” ?? Not sure that goes down well with me.

 

[sir baconface]

This cover up has shades of the hillsborough disaster about it and makes you realise it’s a dysfunctional pile of shit from top to bottom.

The mantra every time is “Lessons will be learned”. Translated, this is political/corporate speak for letting the shit blow over then continue as before, not giving a flying fig.

Every fkn time.

 

[Gray]

I see Paula Vennells has handed back her CBE with immediate effect. I kind of like the fact she did it before she was forced to.
That said, she and MANY OTHERS still have a lot to answer for! It is not just the 2 main PO execs during the cover up who are being lined up as sacrificial lambs by the counties Elite Blob.

Shamed into it, a church minister - what a hypocrite.

 

[sir baconface]

Do we know yet who recommended the CBE for Vennels?

Gary Lineker.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Post Office gonena end up with more charges than us

 

[Gray]

Hope they turn their attention to that even ghastlier specimen, Angela van den Bogerd. Visiting the widow of a sub-postmaster who had committed suicide and feigning sympathy is absolutely disgusting.

 

[Gray]

Do we know yet who recommended the CBE for Vennels?

BBC Sports Personality of the Year selection panel?

 

[mancboy]

Hope they turn their attention to that even ghastlier specimen, Angela van den Bogerd. Visiting the widow of a sub-postmaster who had committed suicide and feigning sympathy is absolutely disgusting.

that is quite the bond villain name, with a name like that they should have clocked on to be fair

 

[Blue Mist]

so they blamed user error and then said no one else has flagged this up before doing fuck all, seems an extreme version of the standard civil service playbook

There was a great line in the programme. An MP said to Vennels, "are you saying the IT system is working perfectly without any problems because if you are, it would be the first time in history that a Government funded system worked'.