Senior Post Office managers must get a taste of the persecution they so glibly carried out
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WHY has it taken a TV drama – and subsequent public outrage – to hammer home to the powers-that-be the monstrous scale and appalling injustice of the Post Office/Horizon IT scandal?
From the very start of this travesty back in 1999, it was screamingly obvious that a dodgy Fujitsu computer system was likely responsible for unexplained “shortfalls”, rather than sudden mass criminality by hundreds of ordinary postmasters and postmistresses.
That truth has long since been established in court, so why are the innocent victims still facing a painfully long “war” for justice and compensation?
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer, who belatedly denounced this miscarriage of justice, can claim they were not in government when the scandal emerged.
Not so Lib Dem boss Sir Ed Davey who was the postal minister who refused to meet heroic campaigner Alan Bates.
His credibility is shot to pieces.
But Rishi’s immunity from contamination by the scandal will be short-lived if he does not enforce swift action.
This travesty may have started long before he was PM but it continues all the while its victims still suffer and the public, rightly, will not put up with it.
The hundreds of branch managers who were wrongly prosecuted must be exonerated, as Rishi suggests. Now.
All those whose lives were blighted must get what they are owed. Now.
It beggars belief that the Post Office still has a say in appeals by the people it put through hell.
Senior managers — living their rich, happy lives while those they wronged were thrown into poverty, or worse — must get a taste of the persecution they so glibly carried out.
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells, for a start, must be stripped of her ill-deserved CBE.
And we look forward to seeing if a police investigation can uncover examples of REAL fraud by those responsible for this entire perversion of justice.
Tax-i for Keir
IT’S a bit rich for Sir Keir Starmer to say the tax burden is too high when there is little prospect of him lowering it if he becomes Prime Minister.
Increased state spending is almost certain under a Labour government, starting with the £28billion a year Starmer will borrow for green projects.
He won’t say how that would be paid for.
So taxpayers should be worried – it’s either higher taxes or more debt.
Honour them
THE loss suffered by parents of military sons or daughters who are killed serving their country is unimaginable.
A new King Charles medal can recognise their sacrifice.
And it might just help them to show their pride while they grieve.