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@TiltStickOfc All hail Stick
Tilt stick
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Tilt stick....
Again, again, again and again and again....wagons circle, attack, protect, frustrate, deny.... this is repeated in every "democratic" country
Lee Castleton @CastletonLee rang @PostOffice for help 91 times in 12 weeks. Horizon kept showing losses he couldn't explain.
Their answer was an audit, a suspension, a demand for £25K and then bankruptcy.
He sold his home in 2003 to buy a small branch in Bridlington. He couldn't afford a lawyer at the High Court, lost, and got hit with £321K in costs.
His daughter was spat at because people thought her dad was a thief.
Paula Vennells later told the Inquiry his treatment was unforgivable. She also accepted she probably signed off the costs that bankrupted him.
Lee is now going after the Post Office and Fujitsu for up to £8M, saying the 2007 judgment was obtained by fraud.
In May 2026 the Court of Appeal let it go ahead as one trial.
Nearly 20 years on, he's still fighting.
Sources: @BBCNews @lawsocgazette @ComputerWeekly
@postanythingLFC The man fluffing at the end wins a ball'ondor....
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@YanPeronn Vini obviously pays well. His tech team dont mess about
WILLIE MCRAE LAST WORDS WERE I'M GOING TO GET THEM
In April 1985, a Scottish lawyer named Willie McRae left Glasgow on a Friday evening heading to his holiday cottage. He never arrived.
He was found unconscious in his crashed car on a remote Highland road with a bullet in his head.
Police ruled it suicide. Case was closed.
One problem. The gun was found outside the car, several yards away. McRae was still inside, seatbelt on, doors jammed shut.
The officer who last spoke to McRae said he was being watched by MI5 and Special Branch.
McRae had patted his briefcase and said he had information and was going to get them.
When that officer later requested his own witness statement under Freedom of Information, he found it had been replaced with a forgery...
Every mention of surveillance, MI5, and the briefcase had been deleted.
There had been a fire at McRae's office the day before. A witness saw a man running from the building carrying a briefcase.
This was not a random lawyer. McRae had just humiliated the British nuclear industry at a public inquiry, blocking plans to dump nuclear waste across the UK.
He was also reportedly investigating a Westminster paedophile ring.
40 years later there has still never been a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
The post-mortem report has never been made public. Over 13,000 people signed a petition demanding answers.
The official position of the British state is that a man who embarrassed the establishment, knew dangerous secrets, and had just told a police officer he was going to get them, then shot himself ... after which the gun walked out of the locked car on its own.
Sources:
@pressjournal
@scotsman
@AlbaParty
@BylineTimes
@PrivateEyeNews
@eoinyk The amount of t.v's in places, just put it on one...pity
Never Forget the Story of Conor Clifford
Like many Irish footballers before him, he left home at 15 to join Chelsea. Dublin to London.
Conor was living the dream.
In 2010, he captained Chelsea to the FA Youth Cup, scoring the winner at Stamford Bridge. It was their first triumph in 49 years, and he called it “the best feeling in the world.”
He trained with the first team, and Frank Lampard took him under his wing.
Giovanni Trapattoni named him in his senior Ireland squads. The future looked bright.
Football is cut-throat. Loans followed at Plymouth, Notts County, Yeovil, Portsmouth and Crawley.
Nothing worked out. One new manager didn’t even know which foot he kicked with.
Chelsea released him in 2013. By 2015, he was in the Conference.
He admits getting caught up in the lifestyle, thinking the Ferraris and Range Rovers would last forever.
Each move knocked his confidence further, until he couldn’t see a way out.
“I’d fallen out of love with the game, I hated it. I hated life.”
Conor was suffering from depression. Friends and family urged him to seek help. In 2017, he returned home, signed for Dundalk and saw a psychologist.
He later admitted: “I should have come home earlier.”
For years, he kept everything to himself. That finally changed.
“Once I started talking, I couldn’t shut up.”
It’s a simple quote, but one of the most important parts of his story.
Later that year, he received a six-month ban for betting while in England.
He played at Limerick, St Patrick’s Athletic, Derry City and Bray Wanderers. At 27, Pat’s was his 13th club.
In 2021, he was a postman while playing amateur football.
Conor’s story is complex, but he’s said the best thing anyone struggling with depression can do is talk about it.
When he finally opened up, he felt a hundred times better.
Sometimes, admitting you’re not okay is the hardest thing. If you’re struggling, don’t keep it to yourself.
Talk to a friend, family member or someone you trust. You don’t have to figure everything out on your own.
It’s okay not to be okay.
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@AngryProfet @WARRENTSHOW Party politics. The great appeaser
A majorty vote in a party.
Things go wrong, people get upset, angry
Vote in a different party.
Things go wrong, people get upset, angry
Vote in a different party
Litterally, rinse and repeat
Appeasing the majority before they get boston tea mad
MUM CONVICTED, DAUGHTERS SENTENCED
Somebody shouted thief through Elaine Hood's shop door. @postoffice shouted it first, in court, with a straight face.
Elaine ran a post office and newsagent with her family in Allestree, Derby. In 2003 she was convicted of theft over about £19,000 on evidence from a computer system called Horizon, built by @Fujitsu_Global. It showed cash missing from branches where none was missing, which makes it a fascinating choice of star witness.
Around 1,000 postmasters were wrongly convicted between 1999 and 2015, and Post Office prosecuted them itself, a bold way to mark your own homework.
Elaine pleaded guilty and got 120 hours of community service and £950 in court costs.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission @ccrcupdate sent the case back in March 2023, and the conviction was quashed that September after Post Office conceded the appeal. Justice took 20 years, so nobody can say it rushed.
Elaine's daughter Kate Burrows was 14 when the panic attacks started. She still has them today. She has been in and out of therapy for most of her adult life, and the bill has so far gone to nobody responsible.
Kate's sister Rebecca Richards was a teenager in that courtroom. She says she watched her mum in the dock, handcuffed to a guard, not knowing if she was coming home. She says two investigators sat in front of her dad and her, sniggering and saying they had got this one.
Rebecca says her eating disorder escalated because food was the only thing she could control. Kate says she has had very dark thoughts of suicide. Elaine kept serving customers after that shout through the door, in the same village, to the same neighbours. The boardrooms have shown no such nerve.
Kate and Rebecca now help run @LostChances2024, a charity for the children of postmasters.
In summer 2024 Kate met Fujitsu Europe boss Paul Patterson, who said he would look at ways to help. By December 2024 the group had reportedly received an offer of counselling and nothing else. How thoughtful.
Paul Patterson has since moved to chairman of Fujitsu UK to keep managing its response.
In July 2025 inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams found that at least 13 suicides may be linked to the scandal and 59 people contemplated suicide. He also found that people at Post Office and Fujitsu knew the system had faults, so the prosecutions were a real team effort.
In March 2026 the Department for Business and Trade @tradegovuk announced a redress scheme for family members. Lost Chances helped design it, and the payment levels were still under review.
Fujitsu agreed in January 2024 that it had a moral obligation to contribute. By March 2026 MPs found it had made no interim payment and agreed no figure, and it still holds government contracts.
In May 2026 Fujitsu UK was reported to be paying staff bonuses, and Post Office extended its Fujitsu contract by £41M to March 2027. Fujitsu says it is engaged with the government on its contribution. A moral obligation, payable in installments of nothing.
Fujitsu is engaged with the government. Kate has been engaged with panic attacks since she was 14.
No end to how creative and proactive people become. When it comes to makint money
I’m not joking! … Yesterday the UK Government started the process, exactly as I warned you it would.
Straight from the UN and into U.K. legislation, to turn nature into a financial asset class that makes huge returns for investors.
Forests, rivers, soil, biodiversity,… will all be measured, certified, packaged and sold as investment products.. to banks corporations and institutional investors.
And the Government will force regulation and make taxpayers create the demand.
The UN calls it “natural capital”. I call it theft of earths produce
@RobCarryBray Credit to you all Rob. So sad that it feels like our government doesn't work for/with us. What is the name of your charity? I'd be interested to see the model. Local charities, raising & spending money locally is the model
@KitMurray @RobCarryBray The cuts to funding since the people of Ireland took the banking mans depts in 08 has never been addressed.
@AAWood864 @YanPeronn He made himself unavailable for a squad after being left out of world cup squad. Not something you can do in a country with so many options in his position.
He has actually made coaches job easy.
Play good, be ready to play. Let the media fight your corner.
Mistake by chilly
@CedarAndHoney @YanPeronn Exactly that. Spoilt for choice. When you play tp level he HAS. You will be judged to that level. He's young, so plenty of time to get back in and be main man in time
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