Whilst everyone is panicking about some military staff saying "well, we might have to conscript", it becomes clear that that particular media-whipped panicfest is a dead cat deployed to stop us all from clocking that David Cameron's coalition govt knew about Project Sparrow, knew about the Post Office's decision to fire the forensic accountants who found the bugs, and were complicit in the cover-up of software defects that cost the jobs, livelihoods, and liberty of over 700 sub-postmasters. The actual govt knew.
Heads are already rolling but frankly this is not enough. The BCS want legal changes to the presumption of "computer is always right".
It's a shame that Jo Swinson has left politics because I'd love to see her in front of an inquiry.
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Govt knew about Post Office Horizon cover-up
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 27/01/2024 20:17
PerkingFaintly · 27/01/2024 20:27
Yep, those unredacted minutes of the Project Sparrow meetings in 2014 are a bombshell.
No wonder the PO blacked out so many paragraphs before releasing them previously.
Well done the BBC for getting the originals.
Allmarbleslost · 27/01/2024 23:02
Of course they did! Is this actually a surprise to anyone?
JenniferBooth · 27/01/2024 23:28
We have NO RIGHT to criticize other countries when the level of corruption in the UK is this high.
Zipidydodah · 27/01/2024 23:35
What about the Labour fucking govt that was responsible for this shit shoe in the first place?? Another PFI disaster thanks to their sheer fucking incompetence. They were told Horizon didn’t work, were told not to sign off on it but did so any way.
One day, someone will actually expose the PFI corruption from the last Labour govt and show the decades long disaster it has been for this country
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 27/01/2024 23:41
That's "day ending in Y" stuff for any Westminster government, and TBH the other British govts too. The 700+ people convicted of fraud based on computer output that was known by 2014 to be unreliable is is a whole new level of corruption.
Zipidydodah · 27/01/2024 23:35
What about the Labour fucking govt that was responsible for this shit shoe in the first place?? Another PFI disaster thanks to their sheer fucking incompetence. They were told Horizon didn’t work, were told not to sign off on it but did so any way.
One day, someone will actually expose the PFI corruption from the last Labour govt and show the decades long disaster it has been for this country
Zipidydodah · 27/01/2024 23:48
I know ….. thank goodness we have an independent judiciary to keep Westminster in check. A competent Director of Prosecutions who would at least notice 700+ prosecutions from a single institution in his courts and investigate this ….
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 27/01/2024 23:41
That's "day ending in Y" stuff for any Westminster government, and TBH the other British govts too. The 700+ people convicted of fraud based on computer output that was known by 2014 to be unreliable is is a whole new level of corruption.
Zipidydodah · 27/01/2024 23:35
What about the Labour fucking govt that was responsible for this shit shoe in the first place?? Another PFI disaster thanks to their sheer fucking incompetence. They were told Horizon didn’t work, were told not to sign off on it but did so any way.
One day, someone will actually expose the PFI corruption from the last Labour govt and show the decades long disaster it has been for this country
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 28/01/2024 00:02
This is the same Keir Starmer who rightly intervened to protect women who withdraw rape accusations from being prosecuted unfairly themselves.
It's not like he didn't spot things and sort them out as DPP, so how come he missed this?
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 28/01/2024 00:02
This is the same Keir Starmer who rightly intervened to protect women who withdraw rape accusations from being prosecuted unfairly themselves.
It's not like he didn't spot things and sort them out as DPP, so how come he missed this?
forcedfun · 28/01/2024 00:26
Royal mail run their own prosecutions though. It had nothing to do with the CPS/DPP. That's true too for every local authority in the country too (for instance).
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 28/01/2024 00:02
This is the same Keir Starmer who rightly intervened to protect women who withdraw rape accusations from being prosecuted unfairly themselves.
It's not like he didn't spot things and sort them out as DPP, so how come he missed this?
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VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 28/01/2024 13:20
A civil case ending with a jail sentence? I didn't know that was allowed.
forcedfun · 28/01/2024 00:26
Royal mail run their own prosecutions though. It had nothing to do with the CPS/DPP. That's true too for every local authority in the country too (for instance).
VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 28/01/2024 00:02
This is the same Keir Starmer who rightly intervened to protect women who withdraw rape accusations from being prosecuted unfairly themselves.
It's not like he didn't spot things and sort them out as DPP, so how come he missed this?
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