@AndrewGold_ok “You’re going nuts” 😂 she didn’t like that. She was appallingly rude, dismissive, overbearing, talked over you constantly and showed no willingness to even consider your views
It became legal to add folic acid to our flour in November 2024.
Prior to that date it would have been illegal.
We have no idea when it was added to each product because the manufacturers were not obliged to ensure accurate labelling.
Sign petition below:
@KingBobIIV@bphillipsonMP The government is acknowledging these men are a menace. It’s comparable to putting a Beware of the Dog sign in your window. You know the dog is dangerous and you are liable when it attacks someone
@StarTwit0890@Pete_fella@BasilTheGreat Bit isn’t that like having a “Beware of the Dog” sign on your front door. You knows it’s dangerous and when it attacks someone you’re liable
@AvonandsomerRob I was at the till in Holland and Barrett and was asked if I wanted to make a donation to @comicrelief err no, I just want to buy some toothpaste thanks. Went outside and was immediately accosted by another charity. It’s such a grift
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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