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Not my local council (Thank Flock!!) But just down the road.
Labour-run Bristol City Council has defended a decision to pay £25 million to Fujitsu Services, the IT company at the centre of the Horizon Post Office scandal, in a deal that sees it become the council’s official ‘digital strategic partner’.
Happened one year ago, but Bristol Shi##y Council decided to keep it quiet until they were ‘rumbled’ last week.The same Labour clowns that lost c£50m of their local taxpayers’ money on a failed Bristol Energy co.
Quite good at picking up on all this stuff when it’s Labour and Lib Dems aren’t you?
Now go and look up how much public money has been bunged Fujitsu’s way by the current government and report back to us.
Questions for every party to answer, pointless trying to sling mud only at those you don’t like.
Not really the issue here deciding which party is throwing Fujitsu cookies they are all at it.
The more I know the less I understand.
This sordid matter gets grubbier by the day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67964064
Private Eye’s longstanding investigation has been mentioned and I’m very much looking forward to next week’s issue, in which I sincerely hope they – in their inimitable style – rip into the wise-after-the-tv-event politicians and media hacks we’ve had to endure mouthing-off over the last week or so
I’ve yet to finish watching ‘Mr Bates v the Post Office’ as – unusually for one who is generally innured to grim news/drama – I find each episode a taxing hour that requires some recovery time
A terrific drama and fine acting
Agree Drone, it’s emotionally heavy stuff. It hits home because it’s real. There is the feeling that this could happen to anyone because these were and are normal people doing normal jobs.
Worth watching the documentary once you’re done as well, there are interviews with some of the actual people featured in the drama.
I don’t think we’ve seen the half of this yet. More to come out of the woodwork I think.
Have the PO really underpaid tax?
I’m sure their accountants/tax advisers have looked into this. What happened to all the money the Postmasters put into the company? This extra “income” has most likely been taxed and therefore that money which has been repaid is surely tax deductible. Any payments of compensation above these amounts I agree will not be tax deductible.
Ginger Baker’s
drum kit slow beats
then stops
as COPD
claims his
final
red haired
energies.
Decades earlier
The strangely fixated
then look away eyes
of an insecure,
uncertain
Anthony Perkins
having crept around as Bates
for some thirty odd years,
not knowing who or
what he is, or was,
or,
if the remains of
his complicated spirit
died years ago
in that cesspit
of a swamp,
or if he might
gain some initiative
to somehow revitalize
his lust for life,
until in despair,
he gives up the ghost.
With the Baker dead
the drums silent
and him Perkins
stiff
and the candle
out
the only one left
is the old woman
sitting up there
alone
in the big house
rockin away,
laughing fiendishly
to herself
then
harshly rebuking
Norman
on a dark night
as the storm
chips in
rocking
the motel sign
back and forth
and
to and fro
and
back and forth.Squeak!
One of the people involved in auditing the Post Office and uncovering the problems with the Horizon system has described Vennells as “overpromoted and dim”.
You don’t say…
It’s not easy to explain this, but it’s fairly evident to my well honed detective skills to ascertain that this thread contains not one, but two Norman Bates.
One curiously calls himself Alan, whilst the other has lived under the assumed name of Norman Bates for thirty difficult years.
They both share similar traits
of obsession but both view different horizons.
One wants to clear the swamp the other wants to clear it from his memory.
One seeks justice for the oppressed whilst the other one just wants to please his mother !Which one will be remembered in a hundred years ?
Mother…
” Norman lift me out of this rotting, worm infested chair immediately. Do mother a favour, a mother who is suffering from an inattentive son, and from excruciatingly painful bed sores and an uncontrollably large ulcer that’s big enough to kill you. “
Watching the programme again (this time on the TV instead of a computer).
What I don’t understand is:
Fujitsu said yesterday they knew there were problems with Horizon…
And yet the programme (if correct, which I presume it is) shows representatives from Fujitsu in court, saying the losses shown on Horizon could not be put down to a problem with Horizon – the rep’ implying that therefore it must be the postmaster’s corruption… Which was why the postmaster/s was /were found guilty.If Fujitsu knew of the problems with Horizon then their representative in court was lying on oath or had themselves been deceived by Fujitsu.
The more I learn of this the more Fujitsu is at fault.
Value Is EverythingNorman Bates
will outlive the Post Office
scandal by a factor of ten.
Let’s face it,
In a hundred years
time all that machine people will want to watch on the menace, will not be a badly cut episode of me (not Mr.) Bates versus the Post Office, or a stucco Madonna skimpily gyrating with a Catholic crucifix, neither do they want to call 999 and complain about the misery of the Smiths,
No, they are just crying out to watch Norman wielding his psycho knife in cabin one
….and let’s not forget
his mother who is competing to be the main character.PEOPLE JUST DON’T WANNA HAVE FUN – THEY WANT IT ALL !
NOT ROBERT DE NIRO
TALKING ITALIAN
NOT A BIT OF IT,
THEY WANT TO WAKE UP THEIR CONSCIENCES TO NORMAN BATES TALKING TO HIS MOTHER.IT’S ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS.
IT STINKS
BUT IT’S ART.It appears that the Post Office and Government knew about the scandal since 2014, they had a company called Second Sight investigate Horizon. They then took Second Sight off the case. They then blanked the report, but BBC got hold of an unblanked report.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Just read this I wonder what else will come out of the woodwork the whole situation beggars belief.
The more I know the less I understand.
IT’S WHAT WE DO…!
PSYCHO … 1960
Cabin 1THE SHINING … 1980
Room 217HORRORIZON…2000
100 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7ER
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