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To draw your attention to Mr Bates vs The Post Office

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5foot5 · 01/01/2024 22:27

There is already a thread about this on the Telly Addicts forum here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4970440-mr-bates-vs-the-post-office-mon-to-thur-itv-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers

However this seems like such an important subject that I thought I would draw attention to it on AIBU.

The first episode aired tonight but the whole series is available on itvx.

Most of you will no doubt have heard about the Horizon scandal, but whether you have or you haven't this program is compelling. It will probably make you furious but it deserves as wide an audience as possible.,

MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE - mon to thur ITV 9pm - tv pace no spoilers | Mumsnet

Mon to thur  Mr Bates vs The Post Office is an ITV drama based on a true story of injustice starring Toby Jones, Julie Hesmondhalgh, WIll Mello...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4970440-mr-bates-vs-the-post-office-mon-to-thur-itv-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers

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Fieldofbrokenpromises · 02/01/2024 23:23

TooBigForMyBoots · 02/01/2024 22:37

This country rewards incompetence, corruption and cover-ups. At our expense.Angry

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It does - we are overdue a proper clean up.

AnneElliott · 02/01/2024 23:17

The programme is so upsetting. So many lives ruined and yet the PO still tried to cover it up. It's a scandal - and those seniors should go to prison.

Oakbeam · 02/01/2024 22:51

The post office should be shut down!

That really would be a kick in the teeth for sub-postmasters.

Goodlard · 02/01/2024 22:48

Holidayhell22 · 02/01/2024 22:24

I will watch this. A relative of dh was a victim. They lost their home over it. And their marriage. Absolutely awful.

That's awful, I'm sorry!

Just started watching it and I'm fuming!

TooBigForMyBoots · 02/01/2024 22:37

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 02/01/2024 17:24

I don’t know how the likes of Adam Crozier and Paula Vennells can look at themselves in the mirror. I would want to die if my actions had led to someone’s suicide.

This country rewards incompetence, corruption and cover-ups. At our expense.Angry

Holidayhell22 · 02/01/2024 22:24

I will watch this. A relative of dh was a victim. They lost their home over it. And their marriage. Absolutely awful.

43ontherocksporfavor · 02/01/2024 22:16

@Yoyo2021 its quite a well known treatment in psychiatric hospitals.

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 02/01/2024 22:15

Have watched all of it. At times was in tears for those poor people-how come that happened and I never heard anything about it till now?

Yoyo2021 · 02/01/2024 22:07

I’ve never heard of it electric shock therapy.

I can’t believe it for something she did not do.

Thank you for heads up on episode three.

The post office should be shut down!

Floogal · 02/01/2024 21:49

@Yoyo2021 she was having electric shock therapy. Be warned there is a suicide scene in the third episode

43ontherocksporfavor · 02/01/2024 21:49

Was some kind of electric shock treatment for depression not an operation. ECT.

Yoyo2021 · 02/01/2024 21:37

Watching second part right now. I’m now boycotting the post office.

Between, when the lady self harmed her self I become really triggered by the scene and next minute they were operating on her but I was confused why? Can anyone explain that part?

43ontherocksporfavor · 02/01/2024 21:18

@ssd every night 9pm

43ontherocksporfavor · 02/01/2024 21:17

Not using Post Office for travel cards or travel insurance anymore after watching this.

Fieldofbrokenpromises · 02/01/2024 21:09

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 02/01/2024 20:02

And also note how, whenever money is involved in crime (or alleged/invented crime in the case of the PO staff), it's always taken way more seriously, with much stiffer sentences, than when it's actually people, health and/or lives at stake.

As a country, our legal system (including the PO's in-house one) value arbitrarily-assigned credits far, far more highly than actual humans and their lives. They don't even try to hide it.

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Most of the UK legal system is a putrid stinking pile of crap

ssd · 02/01/2024 20:51

Is it on tonight?

Atethehalloweenchocs · 02/01/2024 20:27

I watched the whole thing (ill and cant do anything much but watch tv). It was so good, and made me so angry.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 02/01/2024 20:02

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 02/01/2024 17:24

I don’t know how the likes of Adam Crozier and Paula Vennells can look at themselves in the mirror. I would want to die if my actions had led to someone’s suicide.

And also note how, whenever money is involved in crime (or alleged/invented crime in the case of the PO staff), it's always taken way more seriously, with much stiffer sentences, than when it's actually people, health and/or lives at stake.

As a country, our legal system (including the PO's in-house one) value arbitrarily-assigned credits far, far more highly than actual humans and their lives. They don't even try to hide it.

TheLogicalSong · 02/01/2024 19:59

I've been following this for sometime and glad it is getting a wider audience. The sheer arrogance of large organisations has no bounds.

SwirlyShirly · 02/01/2024 19:55

I watched it, those poor people!!! The stress would have been unbearable. Really heart breaking.

ZeViteVitchofCwismas · 02/01/2024 19:48

@prh47bridge thank you

AgnesX · 02/01/2024 19:40

girlfriend44 · 02/01/2024 15:57

Agree, but isnt this the case with alot of things. No one wants to stand up and take the responsibility?

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True, but both organisations (specifically Fujitsu) have been lying through their teeth since this whole thing started. The number of complaints should have rang bells left, right and centre.

PerkingFaintly · 02/01/2024 19:26

Blimey, who are the 6% who have clicked YABU?

I mean, it might be real. But if you've misclicked, MN does let you go back and change your vote.

ssd · 02/01/2024 19:13

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 02/01/2024 17:24

I don’t know how the likes of Adam Crozier and Paula Vennells can look at themselves in the mirror. I would want to die if my actions had led to someone’s suicide.

These types seem to have no conscience.

MotherOfCatBoy · 02/01/2024 19:12

Agreee with @LoobyDop that in any decently run IT project this wouldn’t happen or would be dealt with once the stats showed up on the bug reports. As a pp said, it’s culture that makes or breaks an organisation and that comes from the top.

DH has been reading Private Eye all his life and I’ve got into the habit too. I used to be put off by the cartoons that can be a bit puerile and I thought it was just satire, but actually they do a lot of long running investigative reporting. I now think it’s worth its weight in gold - certainly worth subscribing.