Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[blueste41]

The government seems very keen on recovering most if not all of the compensation money from Fujitsu. It will be interesting to know how the PO:
- Set up and deliver user acceptance testing (UAT) [their responsibility not Futisu's] The clue is in the term user.
- How the PO decided to accept a system with such a huge live snag list into a trial rollout.
- How the subsequent trial rollout was deemed to be a success when it clearly wasn't.
- How the system could then be extended to every PO in the land with a snag list pretty much unchanged by the trial.

Further it will be interesting to know how Fujitsu can be blamed for the cover up. Yes they provided key witness statements but - I suspect these were requested with valed threats about the "future relationship" between the PO and Fujitsu.

I strongly suspect The Royal Mail executive (owners of the PO till 2012) had a lot to do with strong arming the PO into early delivery due to project cost overruns. I suspect they have a lot to answer for - more so than either Fujitsu or the PO.

All of what you ask has come out in the public enquiry. It all started with a system called Pathway and a man called Tony Blair.

Blair is dragged into row over ICL's £1bn Post Office contract

Tony Blair has been drawn into the messy row surrounding plans to introduce computerised benefit payment systems in the UK's post offices.

www.theguardian.com

Pathway failed and Blair insisted the system be developed into an EPOS system for post offices.

What Tony Blair knew, and why the unfit Horizon IT system was green-lit

Plus – attempts to adjourn the inquiry… Hi there I am writing this update from my desk at home, listening to the inquiry live feed on catch-up at 1.5x speed. This was a very useful opti…

www.postofficescandal.uk

Your other questions will have to wait for another day.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

John Sweeney presented one in 2015 (for some daft idea he rides between locations on an on old postie's moped).

Screaming at scientologists on route ?

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Just finished listening to the Scouser’s testimony. Christ. It seems all these hearings go a bit like this:

“And you see in your witness statement it says you ‘behaved professionally’ at all times, is that correct?”
“Yes. We were always professional.”
“I see… can we turn to document POL00052748 page 18 please? Thank you… you see this is dated 12th August 2010 and this email is from you?”
“Yes.”
“So here in the email you appear to refer to the subpostmaster as a ‘fucking weapon’ and go on to state ‘the last time I saw so many lies was when I spoke to the missus after Dave’s stag do in Amsterdam’.”
“Errrrr… yeah…”

Repeat that kind of interaction about 20 times over for a couple of hours.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Screaming at scientologists on route ?

They deserved that one tbh. Stalking a journalist whilst they investigate you would have sent anyone over the edge.

Sad that it was Tiny Tommy of all people that brought his BBC career to an end.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

So?

It’d help the forum if you could learn the “reply” function.

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

I predict he wont be in his current role much longer

Long term sick was mentioned by him in today's testimony

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

It’d help the forum if you could learn the “reply” function.

A needle pulling thread, I believe

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

A needle pulling thread, I believe

He’s a decent, but brash poster that may or may not have certain autistic tendencies.

Very knowledgeable guy, but lacking empathy.

If I am wrong, then I apologise, obviously.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

The government seems very keen on recovering most if not all of the compensation money from Fujitsu. It will be interesting to know how the PO:
- Set up and deliver user acceptance testing (UAT) [their responsibility not Futisu's] The clue is in the term user.
- How the PO decided to accept a system with such a huge live snag list into a trial rollout.
- How the subsequent trial rollout was deemed to be a success when it clearly wasn't.
- How the system could then be extended to every PO in the land with a snag list pretty much unchanged by the trial.

Further it will be interesting to know how Fujitsu can be blamed for the cover up. Yes they provided key witness statements but - I suspect these were requested with valed threats about the "future relationship" between the PO and Fujitsu.

I strongly suspect The Royal Mail executive (owners of the PO till 2012) had a lot to do with strong arming the PO into early delivery due to project cost overruns. I suspect they have a lot to answer for - more so than either Fujitsu or the PO.

regression testing should have pulled it out. I think they said the problem was the system not polling when bt outages happened so missed entries. I can get a bit anoraky about testing

 

[yerwot?]

Offsted, DWP, IPCC, DVL, MI5, Assoc of Chief Police Offers, BoE, with a f'kin huge etc, operate under an "accountability deficit". Being forced to answer questions in public, under oath, has been a shock, one never contemplated, after years of whitewashing by a complicit MSM. The last time the "establishment" faced such scrutiny was the aftermath of WW2, democracy has been under attack ever since, to the point of extinction. No doubt the usual tactic of "deny divert find a scapegoat" will be fully deployed, "lessons have been learned", "it's a woke conspiracy", will be first and foremost in headlines and banners, even some sacrificial lamb offered, it's worked before....