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A new scandal for BBC political reporting: C***gate!

Fiction: the BBC reporting of the Rochdale by-election seems to have been tinged with the biases of the reporters, who referred to members of the public in the most derogatory ways possible.

The latest wheeze in politics seems to be ‘projection’ – claiming that somebody else is behaving inappropriately while behaving in exactly that inappropriate way oneself.

So the media at the Rochdale by-election count seem to have been keen to attack members of the public for rudeness while actually barging them out of the way and insulting them.

That is what the following video, featuring Newsnight editor Nicholas Watt, seems to be telling us:

Here’s The Canary‘s analysis of it:

We should take a dim view of this behaviour. The media exist to report the news, not to slant it towards their own political views while abusing the rest of us. For example, This Writer would never have described a member of the public in the terms used by the cameraman in the clip.

I look forward to hearing an explanation – possibly accompanied by resignations – and I hope we don’t have to wait long.

The Tory government is deliberately obstructing compensation for Windrush scandal – and other – victims

This ship has sailed: it seems that hopes of the Windrush generation to be compensated for being victimised by the Home Office are disappearing over the horizon, like the ship that brought them here so many decades ago.

Here’s what’s going on:

This Writer understands that the government stole – that’s right, call it what it is:  stole – £4 billion from WASPI women who died before they could be compensated for the harm done to them by raising the state pension age.

That’s enough to plug the gap in local council funding, but – how strange! – the money isn’t going there either!

Are you angry yet? If so, you’re not nearly angry enough.

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Now, Age UK is reporting that the Windrush generation is being failed by the Home Office yet again, with 87 per cent of people who deserve compensation still waiting for it.

Still not angry?

When will you want action about this? When the government harms you instead? 


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Tories (allegedly) delay compensating sub-postmasters – for electoral gain?

Sub-postmasters: if Mr Staunton’s claim is correct, then the Tory government has been lying about wanting to do right by them.

The now-former chairman of Post Office Ltd has claimed the government asked him to “stall” payouts to sub-postmasters so they could “limp” into the next general election with “the lowest possible financial liability”.

The Sunday Times seemed to have the story first:

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Here’s a snippet from that story:

This Writer couldn’t find the Sunday Times piece online but this is from the GB News version of the same story:

The former chairman went on to allege that he was instructed by a senior civil servant to stall on compensation payments to the Horizon victims so that the government could “limp into the election” later this year with the lowest possible financial liability.

He told the Times: “Early on, I was told by a fairly senior person to stall on spending on compensation and on the replacement of Horizon, and to limp, in quotation marks — I did a file note on it — limp into the election.

“It was not an anti-postmaster thing, it was just straight financials.

“I didn’t ask, because I said, ‘I’m having no part of it – I’m not here to limp into the election, it’s not the right thing to do by postmasters.’ The word ‘limp’ gives you a snapshot of where they were.”

Badenoch’s department have denied the claims and referred to the conversation as “simply incorrect”.

That’s all very well.

But here’s a little lateral thinking on the subject:

That seems to be the size of it.

But I’m curious as to the meaning of this idea that the Tory government would be going into the next election with the “lowest possible financial liability”.

It isn’t as though the Tories would be paying from party funds, making them less able to campaign.

So what’s the fuss about?


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Liz Truss, Ayanda Capital, and yet another PPE scandal from the illegal ‘VIP lane’

Backhander: I use this image for obvious reasons – see the story below.

Here’s Carol Vorderman:

She’s reminding us that your Tory government spaffed hundreds of millions of pounds on its very rich friends when it should have been safeguarding us all from Covid-19 – and the money has never been recovered.

Undoubtedly there will be more on this and other scandals as the information is prised from the unwilling grip of the Tories responsible.

Why is the Serious Fraud Office investigating the UK’s Foreign Secretary?

Cameron: if the police have questions for him to answer, should he not step back from his government role until he’s in the clear – or convicted?

Shouldn’t ministers of the United Kingdom’s government be beyond any possible reproach – especially criminal investigation?

Shouldn’t the voters of this once-great country naturally demand that nobody in its government has even the slightest suggestion of dishonesty or unfair play levelled against them?

In that case, given this…

David Cameron’s activities at the scandal-hit Greensill Capital finance company are a “matter of interest” in a wider investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, the Guardian understands.

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The SFO, which investigates and prosecutes fraud, bribery and corruption in the UK, has questioned interview subjects about the UK foreign secretary’s involvement with the now-defunct company, sources claim.

The Guardian understands that Cameron’s activities have been discussed in sensitive interviews with witnesses in the long-running SFO investigation. A spokesperson for Cameron declined to answer specific questions about the investigation and his involvement with Greensill, but said that the foreign secretary had not personally had “any contact” with the SFO.

Witnesses have been questioned on the role Cameron played in promoting Greensill to investors and his engagement with and promotion of GFG, the Guardian understands.

… Shouldn’t we all demand Cameron’s removal from his current role, at least until the facts about his involvement in the Greensill scandal are established, once and for all?

Source: David Cameron’s activities at Greensill a ‘matter of interest’ in wider fraud inquiry | David Cameron | The Guardian


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#PostOfficeScandal victims demand criminal prosecutions

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A group of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of stealing more than £100,000 from the Post Office have told Sky News there must be criminal prosecutions against those in charge.

Vipin Patel, Nicki Arch and Sarah Osolinski, who ran Post Offices in Oxford, Stroud and Cheltenham respectively, have described how their lives were destroyed by the Horizon IT scandal.


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Fujitsu admits responsibility for #PostOfficeScandal and offers to compensate

The head of Fujitsu, the multinational corporation whose rubbish Horizon software caused the so-called Post Office Scandal that was dramatised as Mr Bates vs The Post Office, has admitted the company’s fault.

He did so at a hearing of the House of Commons’ Business Committee, before Alan Bates, the former sub-postmaster whose efforts to obtain justice were depicted in the TV drama.

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Here’s what happened, according to ITV’s Paul Brand:

So not only did Fujitsu know the Horizon software was faulty; it definitely also had remote access to individual sub-postmasters’ accounts, meaning they could be altered remotely.

Ah, but Fujitsu told Post Office Limited about these things so it was POL’s responsibility to act on that information. That’s debatable – as the software provider, Fujitsu was responsible for providing a working product. If that didn’t happen, wouldn’t Fujitsu be responsible for putting it right?

Fujitsu will definitely provide compensation money, though – but nobody there is saying how much that will be.

As the Post Office has admitted the money wrongly taken from sub-postmasters was probably absorbed into the firm’s profits and used to pay huge bonuses to people like former CEO Paula Vennells, it seems Fujitsu won’t be the only corporation pay back large amounts of money.

These are all, as Mr Brand states, extraordinary admissions.

With culpability and the need for compensation agreed by all sides, a timetable needs to be drawn up for the provision of that money – and that’s where This Writer foresees difficulty.

I reckon they’re all going to argue about how much responsibility they should each take. Such arguments could last years. Who thinks I’m right?


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Tory idiot Gullis didn’t watch #PostOfficeScandal drama. Paw Patrol was his level

Jonathan Gullis (the beardie weirdie without a mask, behind Boris Johnson): his original claim to fame was as a PMQs heckler, shouting stupidity at the Labour benches. It seems he cannot restrain himself from uttering silly nonsense. The public should expect better.

What an insult to two of the sub-postmasters who were instrumental in getting the Horizon software scandal into the public eye – and, indeed, the courts – to have the matter discussed by Tory numbskull Jonathan Gullis.

Here’s the situation:

Evidence was heard from Alan Bates (the Mr Bates of Mr Bates vs The Post Office) and Jo Hamilton, who was also depicted in the drama.

He did what?

He joked about watching Paw Patrol?

For context, Mr Bates had just said people were dying while waiting for compensation. It was amid such contributions that Gullis slipped his extremely ill-considered contribution.

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The social media were quick to provide the kind of well-deserved responses that, no doubt, Mr Bates and Ms Hamilton were too polite to make at the hearing:

It says everything about the state of the UK today that upstanding people like Mr Bates and Ms Hamilton can be wrongly accused – and in some cases convicted – of crimes, and then have to listen to the childishness of people like this.

The sooner time-wasting ignoramuses like Gullis are removed from Parliament, the better.


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Post Office Limited is in tax trouble and may go insolvent #PostOfficeScandal

How convenient for the Post Office!

So the Post Office accounts were mis-stated, meaning there is a huge tax liability that has wiped away profits made by the firm. That in turn means bonuses paid to executives should not have been handed out. And it means the organisation may also be insolvent – so the public purse will once again have to fund the incompetence of a government-owned mess.

There’s the question of tax paid on the money POL took from sub-postmasters to “balance” the alleged thefts – money that should have been paid back to the people the company wronged, of course.

What about the non-tax-deductible costs of prosecuting these sub-postmasters under false pretences – costs that date back more than a decade?

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What about its legal fees in fighting the sub-postmasters’ court case – a case that should never have had to be brought?

And finally there is the question of funding by the government – as a shareholder – to POL; this money is taxable too.

Mr Neidle has published a thread on ‘X’, explaining the matter further:

So, not only is the Post Office insolvent, not only is it incompetent (in failing to file proper tax returns for more than a decade – at least), but it is also likely to ask the public – who already pay the Post Office for the services it provides – to cough up the huge shortfalls in cash.

Funny, that. When sub-postmasters were wrongly accused, they were forced to pay the money back, prosecuted and some went to prison. With this firm correctly accused of tax fraud (or so it seems), should we not be seeing executives and accountants forced to repay their ill-gotten gains, prosecuted and imprisoned, rather than be punished for it ourselves?


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