The Post Office has a death wish

Have been watching the ITV programme about this and the sense of cognitive dissonance and utter disbelief at the insanity does remind me of gender ideology so not surprising the PO believe in those emperor's new clothes too.

It was proper ducking stool stuff the way the spms were treated- there was no evidence beyond Horizon that they took that money. None of them were jetting off on inexplicable luxury holidays or suddenly buying themselves new cars. Where did the supposed money go? There was no evidence of it in real terms at all, just numbers on a Horizon printout. It just didn't make sense at the most basic level. These people had gained nothing from their supposed (made up) crimes - and lost everything including in some cases their lives. Children's lives were destroyed too and their wider families. Just appalling.

Shocking that the PO was profiting from basically making up that decent, normal, hardworking people owed them 10s of thousands of pounds. Then Vennells gets millions in a 'bonus' because the PO made a profit - yes, some of that profit was theft from the subpostmasters! There really need to be criminal charges brought as it's pretty clear it was known quite early on that people could alter horizon remotely. If the courts had known that fact the outcomes of all the trials would have been different.

I do feel very cross that our incompetent but self serving government has suddenly decided that the post office scandal is an issue, though. Too late: we see through you. I hope people do get their compensation quickly, though.

Back in 2019, the Post Office Twitter account put up a tweet about their support for employees "suffering from mental ill health" at a time when the abominable treatment of their Subpostmasters was known to them. No self-awareness at all.

Spot on! It speaks to a lack of critical thinking, values and moral courage Unsurprising when these people turn out to be sadly inadequate politicians unable to see corruption and wrongdoing, even when it's staring them in the face.
The Lib Dems are a busted flush but worrying to see so many labour politicians in thrall to the same delusion.

People who believe that TWAW lack critical thinking skills, so is it surprising to see that both Ed Davey and Jo Swinson were involved in this scandal? Their inability to ask any difficult questions or provide any oversight of an area they were responsible for meant the Post Office were able to continue there vindictive campaign of persection for another 5 years.

Good report, although I'd argue the toss over which side were being 'activists'. Well said Aja and Bev, you tell 'em.

Theres a very clear need for continued activism by LGB people, particularly the L, as there is for feminism. Whereas what the PO is doing seems more like lazy misguided 'virtue signalling'.

Thanks for the link. What a bunch of arrogant bastards.

Throws them in prison on manufactured evidence and drives them to suicide.

The Post Office persecutes postmistresses into prison, penury.

Hey Jess, why don’t you educate us on what the Post Office actually does? That would be much more useful.

The telegraph is very slowly inching towards understanding that 'LGBT+' is now code for gender ideology political lobby, and not a term inclusive of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. And it excludes them and harms their interests as it excludes and harms the interests of women who dares to have lives and needs that do not fit with the desires of activists.

I think I said upthread that the Q word is as offensive to me as the N word - it's disgraceful that they say the marvellous Aja the Empress is wrong. How very dare they?

And as puncheur has reminded us several times, the Post Office is separate to the Royal Mail (no, I don't understand either) and the RM is being besmirched when it's not them being wrong.

Article in the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/06/post-office-defends-homophobic-slur-queer-outcry/

https://archive.ph/tfnZy

Good report, although I'd argue the toss over which side were being 'activists'. Well said Aja and Bev, you tell 'em.

Quite.

When you're suddenly cast in a shocking light in the public eye for very questionable behaviour, it is not the moment to let your interns demonstrate that you're not only questionable but out of your minds.

I doubt this was engineered tbh - and this isn't acting remotely as a 'dead cat', it's acting as an amplifier.

This week a much talked about documentary has aired about post office management wrong doing, and the media has been critical of them.

It's not surprising they are engineering some other dead cat for people to discuss instead, if they are.

Couldn't happen to a nicer misogynist. The Lib dems have safeguarding disasters baked into their DNA. Every word from Davey demonstrates why he shouldn't be allowed near positions of power and why they're a danger to women and children with him in charge.

I see on Twitter that biology denier and accepter of donations from puberty blocker pushers Ed Davey is getting caught up in the sub post master scandal as well.

It's a good article. For example:

Bev Jackson, the co-founder of LGB Alliance, told The Telegraph: “Many lesbians and gay men reject the word ‘queer’ as a slur, one often uttered before a vicious beating. Others reject it because it has been claimed by straight people as a fashionable identity.”

Last year, LGB Alliance released a report entitled Don’t Call Me Queer which found 90 per cent of those surveyed felt uncomfortable with the word.

@RainWithSunnySpells thanks!

Here's the link. :)
https://archive.ph/tfnZy

There is something in the Telegraph today ‘Post Office defends homophobic slur..’ but the archive link I have isn’t working.

Not sure if this is somewhere else in this thread.

Allow us to educate.

Ahhh, at least they provide good laughs.