Reading some of the inquiry interviews something struck me - the way people are separating the “board” from the “business”. I’ve not seen this in other businesses as the board is usually made up of directors or executives covering the different functions in the business. The chair and non-exec directors are most often a bit removed from the business, but the rest of the board IS the business. I cannot imagine a board level director of IT trying to claim that he/she did not know something because the business side of IT had not revealed it.
Is the separation referred to in the inquiry reflecting something unique about the Post Office? Or is it being emphasised here because some want to be seen to be separate from these problems?
One normal person amongst the elitist boors.
Proper financial recompense and criminal prosecutions of those responsible, might, just might, bring some comfort to those who were robbed by the Post Office.
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All my working life I’ve spoken of the British culture of hierarchy in the workplace where top brass are invariably very detached from front line reality
We’ve learned nothing from WW1.
Ed Davey claiming to be a man of action makes me seeth
This bears out your comment.
Sorry, this enquiry like others show the wrong people always seem to hold positions they are unsuited for. All and everyone desperate to save themselves, shame on them all.
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For years this has bothered me. All the way back to WW1, we should have learned the lessons from putting disconnected Ruperts in charge of far away trenches.
I think class snobbery is how we still privilege the wrong people who are dreadful at leadership.
Now we’re adding woke diversity hires into the mix. How many more police women getting beaten up which in turn means the health n safety of male officers is compromised? Managers are responsible for these decisions.
Before anyone replies, take a look at the latest footage of the Manchester airport violence: the 2 female officers are helpless and the remaining male is thus in much greater danger. Just in time a taser is used thank goodness
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I agree Conradd, and it’s time for a change…There are more of us than them and we should take it further. The people of the UK are having things thrust upon them without their consent…Net Zero, Electric Vehicles, smart this, and smart that, and really bad lefty ideology (wokeness)…and much more…
If the Criminal Prosecution Service decides that the evidence standard is met, any potential trial would not be until at least 2027.
Commander Stephen Clayman.
“The scale of the task ahead is unprecedented,” he said, adding that officers are being supported by “cutting-edge technology” to help work through evidence in documents.
"I cannot make promises that this will be a fast process. An investigation of this size must continue to be undertaken meticulously and methodically and will take time.
“However, I speak on behalf of our whole team when I say we will approach it with independence, precision and integrity.”
Sir Alan Bates. a victim will be a huge asset to police.
If evidence has no been tampered with lost or destroyed.
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Why can’t people admit they are wrong and apologise . Has it always been this way? I expect it’s human nature. So sad!
Its bonkers to think no individual was responsible for looking at the spike in embezzlement instances and questioning why.
More likely they noted this spike and thought - wow, its lucky we put in this new system that is able to find these wrong-doers, they’d have got away with it otherwise.
One has to question why the system only created negative outcomes.
The sub-postmasters had no way to prove they were not guilty. Mr Bates v The Post Office portrays a Fujitsu employee demonstrating how he could make changes to Sub-postmaster branch accounts remotely. Horizon accounting system was flawed and those who wrongly accused innocent people must go to prison.
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Hear! Hear!
Wishing You A Happy Festive season Main Man.
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Thanks QES, and a very happy Christmas and peaceful New Year to you and yours… 
Incidentally, I like to call them ‘Hearing Enhancement Devices’ I think ‘Hearing Aids’ makes me sound old…
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More than a year ago, Fujitsu boss Paul Patterson said the company had a “moral obligation” to contribute towards redress for victims.
Empty words. Nothing moral in the way honest people were treated, all Fujitsu had to do was acknowledge their faulty system.
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The grinding wheels go on and the endless investigations and reports do not seem to progress anything.
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Absolutely diabolical, I would have expected the government to step up to the plate as soon as they realised that innocent postmasters and women were being falsly puninished.
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Absolutely agree Bob.
Starmer promised to sort it, he hasn’t, far more bothered about the rest of the world rather than us.
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