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Mr Bates vs the Post Office
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cleavers
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And fujitsu for their part in it all.What a set of absolute cunts Post Office are.
BeerIsTheBest
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Bit harsh. Berry did offer up that brilliant advice to folk struggling to pay their utility bills.… cut consumption or get a better paid job. A political mastermind with a firm grasp on reality.Jake Berry is a prick with zero political nowse - the fact that he has risen so fat in the Tory Party just indicates how shit their "talent" pool is. Looking like an epic loss at the GE then a R/W move to oblivion
BringBackSwales
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I bet she isn’t prosecuted, but hope she is, and all the other cunts. Interesting that the itv drama didn’t mention Adam crozier, a former post office ceo after Vennells, who interestingly later became itv ceo; just a coincidence I am sureStill their software in use, hopefully better used today.
It's a terrible story, the woman who gave up her CBE will be prosecuted, and fujitsu should be too.
It's a real shit show.
cleavers
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It might take a while, but I think she will be.I bet she isn’t prosecuted, but hope she is
Head of the FA for 2 years 2000-2002.Interesting that the itv drama didn’t mention Adam crozier
JRockBlues
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Also is Horizon still in place or has it been replaced?
Just been extended until 2025 for an additional £36m.Still their software in use, hopefully better used today.
Computer Weekly report
bluethrunthru
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My Mrs worked in a SPAR shop that adopted a PO. It was clear Horizon was shit and the staff refused so sign up to it.
Didn’t labour leave a note when they last left Government that there was no money left.
Will happen again no doubt and we can look forward to more tax.
Obviously you’re not aware that was a longstanding tradition when governments pass on. The difference was that the Tories chose to make it public. Pathetic from an incompetent bunch.
What a shame they drove our country into the dirt over the past 14 years. And we are paying more tax than ever!
gordondaviesmoustache
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You don’t have to be Hurcule Poirot, and nor do you need to be Alan Turing to appreciate that the system was the most likely explanation by some distance, irrespective of what others might be telling you.As a software engineer for 34 years, I find it ludicrous that the police, the government and the CPS have so much faith in the fact that a computer system is infallible that they’d rather convict 100s of innocent people than consider the obvious explanation.
It beggars belief.
I notice that Fujitsu execs are up before the inquiry next week, so it will be interesting to see how they defend their system and their actions.
Not only should that have been readily apparent, but also at a relatively early stage.
One obvious question should have been (which any reasonably competent FD could have answered) was if the SPs were telling the truth, then where would the money be? A check of the holding account for cash surpluses vs the pre-Horizon period would surely have provided some clue. It’s clear that no senior decision maker stepped back and even asked any question based on the predication of the SP’s innocence.
Senior executives are well rewarded because they are supposed to have the wherewithal, vision and experience to take a wider view of the situations their organisations face - good and bad. This requires them to think in a way that is objective and logical and to ask questions of what they are being told; in terms of both themselves and others. It is important to a certain extent to defer to others who have levels of expertise that you do not, but not unequivocally or slavishly. People will tell you what you, or they, want to hear. To suggest otherwise is pitifully naive.
For whatever reason, no senior executive seemed remote capable of applying this perfectly reasonable and proportionate approach. Not only for the sake of the people within the organisation, but also the organisation itself.
They are all cunts as far as I’m concerned. They completely failed to do their job and have caused extreme misery as a consequence.
I’m not normally one for witch hunts, people make mistakes, but it seems to me that this sorry episode extends way beyond the merely negligent on behalf of large numbers of senior executives at the PO and there should be severe consequences for them in order for justice to be done.
gordondaviesmoustache
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You think tax has gone down under the Tories ffs?Didn’t labour leave a note when they last left Government that there was no money left.
Will happen again no doubt and we can look forward to more tax.
You are being gaslit by the cunts.