ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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It's a horrible, pernicious crime that leaves so many people, primarily in older age groups, in a devestated state. Pity we have a government which cares more about their own PR.
Keith Sansum1
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The fraud is such a high figure .
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Weird Granny Slater
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
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They really don't want to win the next election!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Or even more alternatively, this one should be right up your street, Cap'n.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Remembering that at the last election the choice was between Boris and Jezza (and not that nice bloke who seems so reasonable on TV) I'm still glad we chose BoJo.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Good grief. This soup of Labour meanness, hypocrisy, double standards, moral degradation and failures of leadership is salty enough without seasoning it with James O'Brien.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Still happy with Boris ?
Wow Bob you could find yourself in the minority again
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Jan Higgins
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Still happy with Boris ?
Wow Bob you could find yourself in the minority again
When the choice was Boris or Corbyn I also prefer the result we got, he was the better choice of two evils.
That does not mean I am or have ever been in any way happy with Boris as the PM
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Thing is Jan .
Lots of things Corbyn pushed for i either taken up by Boris , or people now realised he was correct .
But stuck as we are now with Johnson it's time for the credibility of the country for him to resign
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:
Lots of things Corbyn pushed for i either taken up by Boris , or people now realised he was correct .
Like what?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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I'll go off topic again. Who cares? This topic at the moment is so widely off-piste. If you're seriously concerned about injustice in our current society, then this might be a rewarding read.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/15/post-office-scandal-workers-computer-systemWeird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Lots of things Corbyn pushed for i...
Peter Tosh? The Abyssinians? Burning Spear? I give up. Where's it from?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Well at least he learned something that Laughing Boy has yet to grasp - when you're in a hole, stop digging.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60393843Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Thanks for introducing this here, RH. As Nick Wallis (author of
The Great Post Office Scandal) said:
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...the vast majority of prosecutions happened on Labour's watch and no one noticed. Why wasn't the court system picking this up? Why wasn't the CPS looking at this? Why wasn't the Ministry of Justice counting this?'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j
CPS? Rings a bell.
Alice Perkins (Mrs Jack Straw) was PO chair from 2011 to 2015, during which time there were around 120 prosecutions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10512581/Post-Office-scandal-deepens-emerges-33-former-staff-died-getting-justice.htmlCaptain Haddock likes this
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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There were far too many lives ruined, as a result there can never be any real justice for all the many who were affected by this awful PO scandal.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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To this date, more than 20 years on for some cases, nobody from the Post Office or Fujitsu or the civil servants charged with oversight has been held accountable, much less faced criminal investigation themselves. Instead, victims’ heads have rolled.
Post Office CEO Paula Vennells gets a CBE in the year 2019 (TWENTY NINETEEN), and then gets made both chair of London’s Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust and something called “a non-executive board member of the Cabinet Office”, presumably because the government thought it important to bring in our brightest brains from business. By way of an inspired satirical touch, Paula also moonlighted as an Anglican priest and as a member of the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group.
Who has been running the country for the last 11 years? Tell me which bit you don't understand and I'll do my best to explain. No, not really. I don't have the patience.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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So all these people (even serving prison sentences)
Lives will never be the same again.
Marriages lost
Houses lost
Let's hope someone some justice gets done .
But money won't be the deciding factor
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:Tell me which bit you don't understand and I'll do my best to explain.
Ha ha. Tragic level self-knowledge.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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