Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[VOOMER]

This guy has got like 15 brain cells... How is he so fkin high up the food chain the PO, controlling peoples lives.

But he does have a nasty look and way about him, which is why he had the job. He looks and even talks like a petty thug.

 

[blueste41]

It's worth noting that Anne Nield's conviction was overturned on appeal in 2021 but at the time of the case this is how the media was reporting it.

Post Office clerks guilty of £34,000 savings fiddle

Mersey post office clerks who made £34,000 disappear into thin air avoid prison

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

 

[mosssideblue]

I find it absolutely astounding that someone with such poor articulation was trusted to conduct interviews

Mind you, his questions were probably

Wares de muny?
Yoos dunnit dint yeh

Particularly where the outcomes from such interviews could (and did), ruin people

 

[Pam]

But he does have a nasty look and way about him, which is why he had the job. He looks and even talks like a petty thug.

It's called failing upwards. Boris Johnson could tell you all about the art of that.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

The fire service installed hand readers around 2006 to clock in on at every station to be linked to pay, overtime etc, alleged cost if £55k per station plus HQ so around 50 places. They never worked and things had ti be done manually with anomalies inputted after around 8/10 years they binned them, they kept throwing money at whoever did the software to the point they gave up. If you ever visit a station they are still on the walls gathering dust, no one got hauled over the coals. The military is the same billions wasted on systems and equipment that never does what it’s supposed to, have you ever seen a high ranking officer or civil servant held to account?

I reckon that If we all looked under the covers of our service providers there's so much shit going on like this.

 

[VOOMER]

That's a common theme in all of this, people that are hopelessly over promoted.

Not just that, he has zero compassion and integrity. He will have seen a huge increase in referrals, but never once though something was up.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

He's been found out so many times. And he will still get away with it

 

[blueste41]

One minute he's not involved in decisions as to whether money should be spent on Fujitsu preparing reports, the next it's his assertion that whenever he was asked if money should be spent on Fujitsu preparing reports he would have said yes.
Surely the 1st part is a polar opposite position of the 2nd.

 

[Stephen230]

The one thing that surprised me about the programme, that doesn’t seem to have been discussed much, is that the Post Office have the power to completely bypass the police and take people to court themselves.

Not saying I’ve 100% confidence in the police but their involvement is normally a pretty important step between someone accusing someone else of criminality and that person ending up in jail.

 

[mosssideblue]

One minute he's not involved in decisions as to whether money should be spent on Fujitsu preparing reports, the next it's his assertion that whenever he was asked if money should be spent on Fujitsu preparing reports he would have said yes.
Surely the 1st part is a polar opposite position of the 2nd.

How this fella got the job he did is beyond belief