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The Post Office has awarded a £2.4m contract to a crisis PR company as it fights legal claims by victims of the scandal.
So easy to spend Taxpayers money ‼️
Simon Goldberg of SMB who represent and Janet Skinner amongst other SPMs with complex claims against Post Office said: "For all the money it spends on crisis PR, the public has not seen any improvement whatsoever in the reputation of the organisation, and speaking from the coalface, the sub-postmaster cohort resents the largesse with which public funds are spent, except on the only deserving cause which could help to right past wrongs – namely, the victims and their families."
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THE POST OFFICE'S "CHANGE IN CULTURE" — NOW WITH 40-PAGE COURT SUBMISSIONS
Blair McDougall MP, Post Office Minister, would like you all to know there has been a "change in culture" at the Post Office.
The evidence? The Post Office has filed a forty-page legal submission opposing the appeal of Patricia Owen, convicted of theft in 1998 on Capture software the Post Office now concedes was faulty.
Mrs Owen died in 2003. She is therefore unable to attend the hearing at which the Post Office will explain why her trial was fair.
Some highlights of the new culture:
— £3.2m paid across a scheme with 200+ applicants. Twenty-four final payments. The arithmetic is left as an exercise for the reader.
— Convicted sub-postmasters get nothing until their convictions are overturned.
Their convictions cannot be overturned because the Post Office is opposing the Appeals.
The Post Office of course is the body that prosecuted them in the first place. This is described as "due process."
The Minister "perfectly understands the sense of frustration" but "cannot comment on individual cases."
He can, however, comment on the abstract importance of "full facts and all the information laid out" — a sentiment the Post Office has spent twenty-five years experimentally rejecting.
Post Office Chair Nigel Railton, asked about mass exoneration, says he supports it. Post Office lawyers, asked to stop fighting the Appeals, file another forty pages.
One of these positions is the Post Office's actual position.
Readers may guess which.
The CCRC is sitting on 29 Capture cases. The first wrongful Horizon conviction took sixteen years to overturn through the courts. Parliament eventually had to legislate away the rest.
Minister McDougall declined to rule out doing the same for Capture.
He also declined to do it.
We are told we are entering "the period where the scandal begins to conclude." On current trajectory, conclusion will arrive shortly after the heat death of the universe, at which point the Post Office will issue a brief statement noting that all parties received a fair trial.
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Keith is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.
Keith has opened 7 gates, occupied a barn roof for 11 consecutive days, cleared an entire knotweed stand worth £4,000 to remove chemically, eaten Steve's bindweed, been in the churchyard twice, been in the road an estimated 14 times, eaten the water heater instructions, been in Dave's kitchen (standing there, not eating anything, just standing), and filed the structural details of every fence on the farm into a memory that has never once been cleared.
He has done all of this while also being the single most cost-effective conservation intervention on the property.
These are not separate facts. They are the same fact.
Keith does not distinguish between the work and the escape. The escape is work. The work is escape. The fence is a project. The project is completed. The project leads to the next project. The knotweed leads to the churchyard. The churchyard leads to the road. The road leads back to the east ditch. The east ditch was cleared in one season.
There is a man named Steve who has filed twenty-nine formal complaints about Keith.
Steve's bindweed is gone.
Steve does not yet understand that these are the same story.
Dave has £387 in gate receipts, a positive net outcome column on every row since entry seventeen, a churchyard booking for next month, and a corner post with a 4mm flex that Keith has known about since Margot's visit and has not yet acted on.
Not yet.
Keith is not done.
Keith is never done.
Keith is ten thousand years of Zagros Mountain goat compressed into a Devon field, and the fence between him and the rest of the world has always been a negotiating position rather than a boundary.
Be ungovernable. Do the work. Leave the field better than you found it.
The knotweed is at 6%.
Keith is thinking.
GOOD MORNING DAVID LAMMY
Guess who’s back? Back again?
It’s me. But. More pressingly. It’s 21% of courtrooms empty as 80,000 wait for trial & while you try to restrict jury trial for thousands.
I’ve had enough of this. Shall we debate it? Name a broadcaster & format. I’m game.
My dear client. He sat beside me when I told his story to the Inquiry. I feel numb at his passing. He suffered so much and endured tremendous grief. He was stoical but marked by tragedy. Those malignants who put him through all this are beneath contempt.
Another former sub postmaster dies awaiting payout.
Wrongfully convicted, but no full compensation.
Fujitsu hasn't paid anything.
Injustice everywhere - Grenfell fire, Infected blood, HBOS frauds, insolvency frauds ...
Govts protect big business.
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The Quiet Dignity of Parmod Kalia (6th December 1958 –13th March, 2026)
Parmod Kalia was a trained Banker. An Associate of the Institute of Bankers. Assistant Bank Manager. Treasurer of an International Charity. A man for whom every penny had to be accounted for.
He chose the Orpington Post Office for the quiet life. Stable hours. Time with his wife and four children. The Horizon system repaid that modest ambition with a phantom shortfall of £22,202.01.
Post Office Ltd told him he was "the only one."
The National Federation of SubPostmasters — his supposed protector — told him to repay the money and fabricate a story.
He borrowed £22,000 from his Mother's life savings.
Post Office pocketed every penny. Then they prosecuted him anyway.
6 months in Prison. 14 years in hiding. 3 occasions where he nearly took his own life. A 17 year estrangement from his son Mahesh, who was just 17 when they took his father away.
Children who grew up asking: "Dad, have you taken the money?" His own children. Asking if their father was a thief. Because the State told them he was.
His conviction was finally quashed in May 2021.
He should have spent his remaining years in peace, rebuilding what was stolen. Instead, the Post Office unleashed elite City law firms to fight tooth and claw over every penny piece of his Redress.
They challenged causation. They delayed. They low-balled.
They rejected his interim claim of £100,000 on "public interest grounds."
Highly paid lawyers — billing more per hour than Parmod earned in a week — deployed forensic cruelty against a traumatised, terminally declining man whose only demand was that someone look him in the eye and say: 'we did this to you, and we are sorry'.
He tragically died on March 13, 2026. Still fighting. Still waiting. Still uncompensated. Still dignified.
The inhumane savages masquerading as lawyers who wage this war of attrition against Parmod, his family and hundreds like him will simply move on, adjust their cufflinks, sip their flat whites, and open the next file.
Another victim. Another billable hour.
This obscene tragedy simply cannot continue.
The time is long overdue for the Prime Minister to intervene — to show some leadership, some backbone, and some basic human decency.
These are not commercial disputes. These are traumatised victims of a State-sponsored crime.
The lawyers instructed to handle their redress must be ordered — ordered — to show compassion, humanity, and urgency.
Every day of delay is another day stolen. And as Parmod Kalia's demise has proved, the days run out.
Rest now, Parmod. The truth outlived them all.
The shame belongs to those who made you wait.
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