I wonder if Paula Vennells of the Post Office Scandal will use the sequential Boris Defence?
"There was no computer system."
"If there was a computer system, I didn't know about it."
"I was assured there was no computer system."
"If I knew there was a computer system, I didn't know it was full of bugs."
"I was assured there were no bugs in the computer system."
"Keir Starmer has a laptop full of bugs and he got it from Corbyn."
What's bizarre about all the furore over this is that it's 100% focussed on The Post Office while hardly anyone is mentioning the wrongdoing by Fujitsu, who were the ones going into the system and making changes and denying remote access was possible. It was also a Fujitsu whistleblower who exposed the flaws. The Post Office were merely guilty of saying what Fujitsu told them.
Also, why has it taken a TV programme to galvanise the authorities into action - General Election?
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"Under her leadership, the Post Office prosecuted sub-postmasters for theft, false accounting and fraud, despite evidence that its Horizon computer system was unreliable and could incorrectly show financial discrepancies. Acting as a private prosecutor, the Post Office repeatedly failed to make full disclosure of known Horizon problems either to defendants or to the courts. This happened in hundreds of cases and, according to Channel 4 and the BBC, is the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.[2][3]"
"At the end of 2019, 10 months after Vennells’ exit, 555 Post Office workers reached a settlement with the company, which admitted it had “got things wrong”. For the subpostmasters, the £58m settlement cost was worth about £20,000 each.
The Post Office has admitted that the final bill could escalate to more than £300m, a cost that the taxpayer is likely to have to fund, leaving Vennells’ turnaround of the Post Office looking a little less like a financial success story.
One reason that the cost of the scandal has run into the hundreds of millions of pounds is the vigour with which the Post Office continued to pursue its staff, even in the face of mounting evidence that they had done nothing wrong."
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