Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
Of course we all knew after the first Radio One Big Weekend scandal that the Post Office was rotten at delivery level but in all honesty when it was so rotten right at the top is it any surprise the posties pulled the scam that they did for those tickets? They were never going to get properly investigated and if they did investigate it they'd just cover it up and refuse access to evidence.

Corrupt top to bottom. I blame the Tories.
Forgive me but I'm never sure if some political comments are tongue in cheek or actually believed by the poster. I reckon all shades of government are to blame to a certain extent for this fiasco. To blame the Tories alone is bizarre and I have heard such a view around the past few days since the programme stated airing so this is not getting at you Deeranged despite not knowing if you are on a wind up. The system and the Post Office's initial deplorable behaviour took place when Labour was in power and the main parliamentary help in getting justice came from a Tory MP. The government continued to own the PO through to when the scandal was finally totally exposed and has still not full compensated all those due dragging the Tories into a share of the blame. But in some eyes the Tories are to blame for all the woes of the world. Truly bizarre!

Two other comments on it are it is/was obscene that the faceless money men could get £40m+ or about 80% of the court compensation award. They took risks but that percentage is criminal. Also I know that the Daily Mail isn't everyone's cup of tea or even chosen newspaper but they were the main media backing the postmasters and had a long running campaign for justice which was not recognised in the programme apart from a fleeting view of a reporter asking questions of the PO CEO.