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POST OFFICE JAILED AN INNOCENT WOMAN
Imagine. You run a small @PostOffice in Hull. You show up every day, you serve your community, you do the job. Then one day a computer program called Horizon decides you owe £59,000 that never existed. A computer program with a known glitch problem.
Post Office didn't check the software. It just marched Janet Skinner into court in 2007 and got her jailed for 9 months. She served 2 behind bars. She lost her house. She lost her job. She lost her name in the eyes of her own neighbours, all because nobody in a position of power fancied questioning a machine.
Here's where any decent organisation would stop digging the hole ... The Post Office kept digging.
A year after she walked out of prison, they hauled her back into court again, this time chasing her for "proceeds of crime."
Proceeds of a crime she never committed, calculated by a system that couldn't add up in the first place. Bold strategy from the people who broke the calculator in the first place.
Less than two weeks after that fresh nightmare finally ended, Janet's body gave out completely. Neurological collapse. Paralysed from the neck down.
Doctors told her she'd never walk again.
She spent a year in a wheelchair and two years learning to walk. She says her own immune system turned on her. Years of fighting a system that refused to admit fault, and in the end it was her own body that surrendered first.
So how does this story end? With an apology? A cheque that actually matches what she lost? Of course not.
In 2025, after everything, the compensation scheme handed her an offer worth around 15% of her claim.
Janet called it an insult. I'd call it a joke, except nobody's laughing, least of all the people who wrote the offer letter from the comfort of a job that still exists.
9 months in prison for a bug. 2 years in a wheelchair for the stress of proving her innocence. A payout that wouldn't cover the damage to her health, let alone her life. And somewhere, the people who signed off on her prosecution are still drawing a pension.
Nobody who signed off on any of this has lost a house, a job, or a night's sleep. They got promotions. She got a wheelchair and an insulting cheque. Accountability had every chance to show up here and chose not to..
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How the fuck is a return train to London £160 yet I can literally fly to another country return for half of that? Surely it costs more to maintain, fuel and fly a massive fucking airplane to another country than it costs to drive a train in a straight line for a couple of hours.
They haven’t thought through this policy and it’s embarrassing at this point.
blanket ban on foreign nationals accessing social housing wouldn’t just be a political debate. It could raise serious human rights questions.
What happens to recognised refugees? Survivors of domestic abuse? Long-term NHS workers who’ve lived and paid taxes here for decades?
It would send homelessness through the roof. Then again, I guess that’s what the Conservatives became used to doing while they were in power.
No amount of headline-chasing, or following Reform to the extremes, can conceal the damage the Tories did to housing in this country.
People without ILR are already ineligible for social housing, so the Tories are targeting refugees and long-term UK residents who have contributed to this country but are not British citizens, including NHS staff.
It would leave more families at risk of homelessness, while driving up the use of temporary accommodation at taxpayers’ expense.
This unserious, unworkable proposal, copied from Reform, would do nothing to tackle the housing crisis the Tories themselves created.
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