I've run public organisations with hundreds of staff - albeit nowhere near on the scale of the PO - but it simply isn't credible that senior leaders had no inkling there were serious problems. It...
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I've run public organisations with hundreds of staff - albeit nowhere near on the scale of the PO - but it simply isn't credible that senior leaders had no inkling there were serious problems. It...
In light of this enquiry and the years of campaigning by Bates et al, it is truly absurd for senior PO and Fujitsu leaders, and in particular Vennells, to attempt to claim they had no knowedge of...
A slight aside, but this is very illuminating. A worker's experience of Royal Mail decline since privatisation:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/08/quit-royal-mail-falling-apart...
I have been following it.
Taking a step back, it seems very clear to me that none of these senior PO leaders have any real defence.
They were all fully aware that there were many prosecutions...
I’m pretty sure she is not active or officiating, and has stepped down (with little option) from all her directorships and other appointments.
So hopefully when she’s not actually responding to...
If ever there were someone who deserves a knighthood or a place in the House of Lords, it is Alan Bates.
The man has more integrity in his little finger than the entire Government has.
Let’s...
It is extremely difficult to reconcile Venells purported Christian values with her actions as CEO.
I hope the enquiry grills her like a kipper and is a step closer to prosecution for the truly...
Finally saying what should have been said years ago - from Guardian news feed:
Post Office minister: people responsible for the Horizon scandal 'should go to jail'
Post Office minister Kevin...
I may be being naive here, but as someone who has led reasonably large public organisations in the past, I simply can’t comprehend the behaviour of the Post Office leadership over the course of...
Just awful:
'I'm terrified' - Post Office victim still fears seeing old customers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68741232
Exactly my point.
The only justification for ignoring historical crime would be a statute of limitations- which we don’t have.
Besides, the Police regularly investigate decades old cold case...
I have to say I’ve always found that to be one of the most incredulous statements ever made by the police, or anyone in public.
By implication one must assume the police are only interested in...
The police, and in particular the MET, only seem to move in these kind of cases (eg Partygate) after the evidence becomes overwhelming and the public gets really pissed off.
You think she might do a runner overseas?
I think you could be right.
Unfortunately as we know now, the MET tends to move with all the urgency and speed of a particularly slow glacier…
And...
I know what you mean. The more that comes out, the more horrifying it gets.
It’s really hard for any decent person to get their head around this. It isn’t a “scandal”, it’s far, far worse than...
Yeah… like they did with partygate… all the overwhelming evidence was right there in the public domain but the MET seemed to either not see it or were waiting for Johnson and his cronies to fess up...
The more that comes out, the more staggering it is.
I’m finding it genuinely impossible to get my head around the fact that a significant number of senior leaders at the Post Office, Fujitsu, and...
It just gets worse and worse. Post Office management need to go to prison for this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68146054
And well done the BBC for their persistence.
It is just one dumbfounding revelation after another:
Fujitsu used prosecutions of sub-postmasters as a ‘cash cow’ The Horizon scandal inquiry last week...
Really?
How does that possibly happen?
A. It doesn't.
Precisely this. They will gain little or nothing from trying to deflect culpability, so their best bet is to face it and be seen as genuine, reasonable and trustworthy enough to be awarded more...
Wheels within wheels.
It is what it is - corruption resulting from a massive conflict of interest.
I think there are a lot of people in the Post Office, Fujitsu and the Government who should be very worried now.
The wheels of justice grind slow (very slow in this appalling case), but they grind...
I think Paula Vennels and other senior managers complicit in this must be cacking it now because it is all finally unravelling.
Vennels and her henchwoman Angela van den Bogerd's careers are dead....
I’m struggling to understand why the Government, as the sole owner of Royal Mail and The Post Office, hasn’t stepped in and been more proactive to resolve this long before now.