To be absolutely aghast after watching Mr Bates v the Post Office

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I binged all of this in one go, no spoilers (although the current state of play is easily findable...)

AIBU to be absolutely aghast that this happened, and happened for so long.
Absolutely dystopian!

I watched it too, and I have heard the occasional article about it on the news over the years. Disgraceful behaviour from the Post Office.

There was a programme on BBC I think a while ago about it. Had not idea before then how bad it was.

It's horrible isn't it. I know of the story so can't bring myself to watch it. They must have felt so powerless.

BBC sounds did a factual expose radio series. It was mind blowing.

I am so glad that there is the ITV series out now and the whole issue is getting wider attention.

And kudos to Private Eye for doggedly pursuing this case for a good decade.

There is a whole podcast about it on BBC sounds. If you were aghast after the programme listen to the podcast.

I was horrified the Windrush situation could ever happen, and equally horrified a national institution like The Post Office could behave so appallingly

I know the gist of the story and cant bring myself to watch this series. Horrific.

The whole thing is absolutely horrifying.

A large number of postmasters are asian women.

Funny how this didn't get more media coverage.

I hope those people get FUCKING MILLIONS of pounds in compensation - the ones who went to prison that is.

Cps was quick enough to take the poor postmasters to court, why haven’t they moved as quickly to take the big bosses to court?

Dare I say it's because they are white men and not asian women.

There was a BBC podcast series The Great Post Office Trial which I listened to last year. It was shocking (and still is!). I want to watch the TV series too.

One is a woman

The two highest executives involved, including the MD at the time, were women...

But a white woman with friends in high places. The itv boss that had been the boss of the post office wasn’t in the tv program coincidence?

Adam something?

Tbh i think it affected people of all sections of society. The podcast goes further than the programme and discusses that the post office knew about the dodgy system. They knew the repercussions so decided to move on doggedly. All sub post masters don’t have thousands in the bank to fight and didn’t have access to information. It is a scandal!

It's awful. If ever there was a case of us v them, this is it. Their conduct was deplorable. I'm a lawyer and was astounded at some of the things that came out of the conduct of the mitigate. The podcast on BBC sounds is a good listen.

While everything is clearly a feminist issue on MN - I'm pretty sure that Paula Vennals was a woman.

I knew about it from Private Eye, god bless 'em

I feel it should be a huge deal but hasn’t been.

Hopefully this itv program will reach people and the attention will cause the cps to do something.

longer thread here

and here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4975307-to-draw-your-attention-to-mr-bates-vs-the-post-office

Is anyone going to boycott the PO now after watching?

PO are still using Horizon.