Apparently the most important thing about David Kelly’s suicide after being hounded by Alastair Campbell is that it really impacted Campbell’s mental health
¿Alguien me explica por qué si yo cancelo un Uber me cobran, pero el conductor puede hacerme esperar 15 minutos, cancelar cuando está a 2 minutos de llegar y aquí no pasó nada?
you’re in her dms, i bought a mansion across the bay from her home where i stare at a green light emanating from her dock every night and throw lavish parties hoping someday she'll show up. we are not the same
IS THE POST OFFICE WAITING FOR BETTY BROWN TO DIE BEFORE IT PAYS UP??
Betty Brown ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham with her husband Oswall from 1985 to 2003. Good business. Nice customers. No problems.
Then Horizon arrived in 2000, built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk, and the till started lying.
First night it was £500 short.
Within weeks it was £1,500 to £1,600 a week, every week.
Betty and Oswall paid every shortfall out of their own pocket because the alternative was being branded a thief.
They handed over more than £50,000. Betty says the real figure was closer to £100,000.
That was their retirement money, poured into a hole created by software nobody at the @PostOffice bothered to question.
Betty was never prosecuted. Small mercy. Instead a manager decided she was too old for the job and needed replacing with someone who understood the technology.
She was pushed out in 2003.
Oswall died a year later.
Betty believes the stress helped kill him, and says his dying thoughts were about whether the Post Office had finally been in touch.
She spent the next two decades fighting for compensation while the people who built and defended a broken system kept their salaries, their bonuses and their pensions.
In 2025, aged 92, Betty finally settled her claim.
In 2026 she received an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle.
She used the moment to tell him that money does not equal justice, and asked him to pass that on to the Prime Minister.
She still had not received a single penny of her settlement by the time she collected the medal.
That is the British state's idea of closure. Ruin someone for over two decades then hand them a piece of metal before the cheque clears.
Betty says every subpostmaster caught up in the Horizon scandal deserves the same recognition she got.
She is right. None of them asked for a medal. They asked for their money and their names back.
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“Tell him to enter the password he knows is correct. Inform him it is incorrect. Invite him to reset it. Watch as he enters the password he believed it to be all along. Then tell him he cannot use it… because it is his current password.”
Don't worry it's only a mother blown up by her abusive ex that we knew about and did nothing. Everyone can relax because mother's aren't important enough to create any kind of political impact, so we don't have to do anything but tweet.