Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Liamo said:
Do you have any reliable source for that claim? Because that Xitter account seems to contain almost exclusively anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, pro-Trump, Qanon-leaning, conspiracy theory posts. It doesn't come across as a particularly believable source.

For instance, the claim that Fujitsu sub-contracted the Emergency Alert System to Infosys has already been debunked by multiple fact-checking sites.

Infosys did not work on emergency alerts system

I can't find anything relating to the claim that Infosys worked on the Horizon system, probably because it's such a recent addition to the earlier untrue social media claims about the Emergency Alert System.
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I am usually very careful about anything that comes from that site.
It was sent, in that form, from someone is usually careful about what they send. I’ll check it out myself today.
Also will be talking to someone who will know more details about what exactly is happening.
 
It truly was a very uncomfortable watch, my heart goes out to the victims. I,ve just signed the petition to strip Paula Vennels of her CBE. Says everything about the honours system- absolutely stinks!
 
Jedi boro said:
I love how ed davey is claiming to be a victim as well… yes but they lied to me as well.
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Even if Ed Davey believed the lies he was told between 2010-12, once it became clear that he’d been lied to in 2019, he should have been the most vocal of all MPs pushing for the Post Office to be held to account. As far as I’m aware he’s been silent on the subject until now, which to me says a lot about his culpability.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
It';s great that it's finally getting the attention it derserves, but a number of media organizations have been pushing this case for many years - yet because it's appeared in an ITV drama it seems to have got the attention of the people who should have been looking at it years ago.

Is that how we're going to run the country, by only focusing on those events / miscarriages of justice that can be made into a good primetime drama ?

Perhaps ITV should commission a drama series on people having to use food banks, or being certified as "fit to work" in order to qualify for the meagre benefits offered by the government ?
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It's a depressing state of affairs that it does indeed seem to be one of the only ways to get through to people.

I know you're saying that slightly sardonically, but why not use it? If this is what to takes to get through to some people, they absolutely should.

Lets be honest, most of the papers are fictional magazines anyway. TV dramas are probably more accurate than anything you'll read in the daily heil and dramas do what the right has done much better than the left has in recent years, they tap into people's emotions.
 
And naturally enough, Nigel Farage is trying to lay some of the blame at Keir Starmer's feet because as Head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 to 2013, he could theoretically have intervened and dismissed any prosecutions during that period.

"Why did Keir Starmer not intervene in the Horizon scandal?" demands Farage

This despite the fact that there was no formal mechanism for the CPS to be informed of private prosecutions (which those undertaken by the Post Office were).
 
Liamo said:
And naturally enough, Nigel Farage is trying to lay some of the blame at Keir Starmer's feet because as Head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 to 2013, he could theoretically have intervened and dismissed any prosecutions during that period.

"Why did Keir Starmer not intervene in the Horizon scandal?" demands Farage

This despite the fact that there was no formal mechanism for the CPS to be informed of private prosecutions (which those undertaken by the Post Office were).
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this is just another jimmy Saville, grift lie. It wasn't in Starmers powers to do anything about this. It's slinging mud in his direction in the hope that some of it will stick.
 
Liamo said:
And naturally enough, Nigel Farage is trying to lay some of the blame at Keir Starmer's feet because as Head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 to 2013, he could theoretically have intervened and dismissed any prosecutions during that period.

"Why did Keir Starmer not intervene in the Horizon scandal?" demands Farage

This despite the fact that there was no formal mechanism for the CPS to be informed of private prosecutions (which those undertaken by the Post Office were).
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And loads of Tory MP's are re-writing history to pretend they've been fighting this for years (including Pritti Patel, who asked a question about it in the HoC yesterday, and Hansard shows this is the first time she's mentioned it, despite claiming she's been fighting for 10 years).
 
gregorgregorovich said:
There's an article in the Guardian today by Marina Hyde, I think. It's well worth a read.

Now if only the TV companies could make dramas about Orgreave, Hillsborough and Grenfell to name just a few.
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Hillsborough was done - and very well - several years ago. I look forward to Orgreave though.
 
sambaDTR said:
And so it continues…

www.bbc.co.uk

Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Horizon whistleblower

The firm smeared postmasters in a failed bid to suppress evidence of their innocence, the BBC reveals.
www.bbc.co.uk
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I understand that PR is about fighting your corner and pushing your side of the story and that as a professional you can only work with the facts with which you are provided but I must say, the whole sorry business has slightly dampened my enthusiasm for diving in to Mark Davies' book which I got for Christmas. A great shame.
 
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