Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[Blue Mist]

700 sub-postmasters x £75k compensation = £52.5m (or one Erling Haaland). I think the government/treasury can, and should, significantly increase that offer.

I don't know what a sub-postmaster wage is, let's say £40k/yr. Multiply that by 20 years of being fucked around and we're at £800k. Per person.

Plus the pension they would be getting, add to that interest and then loss of dignity, freedom, health etc etc. 75k is nowhere near.

 

[The Black Shed]

That’s just recouping financial losses. What price reputations and mental damage. £75k is a joke and I hope the postmasters tell them to get real

Absolutely, some people have very sadly taken their own lives because of it. You can't put a price on that.

 

[mosssideblue]

Whilst Sunak pretends he is the knight in shining armour, they have had 14 years plus knowing this issue existed and just kicked it into the long grass.

Heads in government should roll too imo

 

[MCFC Wirral]

It'll be interesting later this year when Labour are back in power and they open the books to see where all the money's gone during these last 14 years. I am looking forward to it, on both counts. Hoping quite a few Tories like porridge.

A number of MPs jailed for fraud were Labour. I imagine you forgot?

 

[city saint]

A number of MPs jailed for fraud were Labour. I imagine you forgot?

they are all at it

 

[Blue Maverick]

So they reckon if you have been wrongly convicted you’re going to get £600k that’s more like it, but £75k is still shot everyone should be getting 6 figures at least. Take it out their profits.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

A number of MPs jailed for fraud were Labour. I imagine you forgot?

They got jailed because they weren't very good at it, naturally the Tories (as professional thieves)were better at creating plausible deniability.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

So they reckon if you have been wrongly convicted you’re going to get £600k that’s more like it, but £75k is still shot everyone should be getting 6 figures at least. Take it out their profits.

Do they have any profits?

 

[MCFC Wirral]

They got jailed because they weren't very good at it, naturally the Tories (as professional thieves)were better at creating plausible deniability.

The sad thing is that you genuinely believe this. One day a forum leftie will be able to answer a question without using rhetoric. One day.

 

[paulchapo]

Whilst you are correct, so was I to the question asked

Yes and no, we were both right/wrong to an extent. Not that it matters it wasn't the point I was making in my original post. The point was it is very hard for the little person to take on a big corporation.