To be sick of hearing about the post office scandal?

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Yes I know it’s a huge deal and what happened was awful but ffs it’s on the news everytime I turn it on. Yes it was absolutely big news at the time but do we really need to keep hearing about it daily for so long? It only affects those involved, surely? Just give us an update when the inquiry is finished!

Just shows why you shouldn't rely on computing systems as though they're infallible.

YABU.
One of the worst miscarriages of justice ever.
Imagine being imprisoned & having to give birth. Completely unjustly.
These people have not all received the compensation they deserve.
The case should receive every piece of attention until the matter is resolved financially.
It is not possible to compensate the mental anguish these workers & their families have suffered. Especially those who took their own lives.

I don't know about it because I've never clicked on a article about it. It sounds awful, reading this thread.

There are countless thousands of other news articles I also don't know about, due to not clicking on them. (and I don't have or want a TV)

Never have I felt the need to start a thread announcing how much I don't care about bad events that impact other people.

You sound lovely OP.

And to add to the very important points about miscarriage of justice, human cost and institutional gaslighting and cover ups:

This case is a foreshadowing of the kind of damage we’re going to see as digital control of data grows, privacy disappears, and we outsource more and more to AI. It’s terrifying and relevant because we all rely on these systems to work fairly. Imagine if the DVLA databases went wrong and we were all prosecuted for driving illegally even though we weren’t. And nobody would believe you. That’s a simple example, but you need to understand how vulnerable you are personally to exactly this kind of failure-a failure propped up by incompetence and indifference to the point of malice.

Major miscarriages of justice on this scale, at a national institutional level, subsequent cover up at the highest levels, followed by a government inability to properly deal with it, including pardoning and compensation,

affect every single person in this country.

Whether of not you are too ignorant to understand it.

But you do. We all do.

You should watch the TV show. I ended up crying hot, furious tears of anger for those people. I cannot believe the injustice that happened.

OP you need to take a look at yourself here. What an ignorant post.

What would you rather hear about? ‘Celebs’? ‘Influencers’?

Fucking ignorant idiot.

Turn over if you don’t want to watch.

The point, OP, is that while you clearly don’t care about anybody but yourself, if the system is broken enough that this could happen to them, it could also happen to you.

Somebody please tell me who the 8% who agree with the poster are, and could they explain why?

I think it is a deeply shocking and awful situation and should absolutely be all over the news.

This 100%
The vast majority of people get it. The consequences. The indifference and ignorance that you show OP, means this will continue to happen again and again.
When you get caught up in something like this, you’ll be bleating like a lamb, OP.
You simply cannot defend anything you have written in your post.

I'm watching and listening to Sir Wyn Williams right now on BBC news. I am far from sick of hearing about it. 😡

236 people went to prison and an estimated 13 people killed themselves because of this. Not to mention the other lives that were destroyed as a result of false prosecutions.

If you don’t want to hear about it or read about it, turn the news off and stay away from the internet in case you’re tempted to post more crap.

YABVVVU.

A govt owned institution knowingly allowed innocent people to be accused, convicted and imprisoned to save face. Because thy didn't want to admit publicly that their accounting system was defective.

Victims took their own lives, couples divorced, people were financially ruined and lost their homes, people died before their names were cleared.

Paula Vennels and her colleagues should be in jail. I hope there is a fuss every day until that happens.

British justice my arse!

O wow op what a selfish post, people's lives were destroyed by this.
He prepared to hear soon about the Cladding scandalcand lives of people like me who are bankrupt, are stuck with massive bills, not able to move or afford children and being promised for the last 5 years the cladding wve do done but it really isn't and it won't... Good luck living in your glass bubble

Also, do you have any idea how difficult it was and how much courage and perseverance it took to get any coverage at all for this horror? Because it happened to little people with no political clout. The fact that people like you are whining about too much coverage is an achievement in itself. I hope people like you will soon be complaining as loudly about having to hear about the carers’ scandal.

Yabu. It is a national disgrace and the more publicity it gets the less likely it is for anything similar to happen again.

You do know the internet is optional, don’t you?

Is that you Paula?

Jesus Christ OP, could you be any more self involved!

In a way, the OP is not being unreasonable.

The reason why this is ongoing is because justice moves very slowly when any State organisation is accused and the State is dragging this out. How happy we would be if a few people were in jail already over this but don't hold your breath.

I would like us to not be hearing about this - instead, the postmasters awarded their compensation, the culprits already fined and jailed for years, eventually released to live in a different, smaller house.

With no retribution, the more scathing the report, the more it becomes a case of the State secretly gloating to itself 'See - we know what we did. They know what we did. And still, no punishment! They can do nothing!'

Stop being a cockwomble