Sally Jane

Happy! Loved and in love. Always be kind x

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

@vuecinemas Sadly after my experience @vuecinemas today I won't be coming to see this film. Clearly disabled people are not welcome! A bit of empathy and humanity goes along way buy don't expect any of it on a trip to the cinema.

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

What a disgusting human being! I'm so very sorry and wish your father all the very best.

[Varchasanraj V Patel @VarchasPatel]

Gary Thomas from the Post Office sent my dad to court to be maliciously prosecuted: Thomas is the reason my dad’s physical health is now crippled! Yet, as shown in the email, he seemed more concerned about “prosecutorial bonuses” than doing what was right. #PostOfficeScandal

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

This remains an agonizing, daily battle for families whose livelihoods, reputations and peace were stolen by a system they were forced to trust.

[Varchasanraj V Patel @VarchasPatel]

The thousands of lives which have been ruined, family’s broken, extreme financial hardships, and damage to health - in some cases server, yet all those who presided of over the #PostOfficeScandal continue to live a life of prosperity, and the victims suffer and die.

[Christopher Head OBE @chrish9070]

#PostOfficeScandal Earlier this evening I spoke with @jhansonradio on @LBCNews regarding todays evidence before the @CommonsPAC by Sir Alan Bates who described the compensation schemes setup to provide redress to victims of the scandal as an ‘Utter Disaster’

Have a listen here👇

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

@VarchasPatel You're very welcome!

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

Not enough is being done to help! These families need help now!

[Varchasanraj V Patel @VarchasPatel]

More people need to see this. The impact didn’t stop with one generation. Families are still living with the consequences today. It's time, us children of affected sub-postmasters, are able to move on from the long lasting knock-on harm! #PostOfficeScandal

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

#PostOfficeScandal #CAPTURE #Accountability #CourtofAppeal #CCRC #LegalEthics #HumanRights

The Horizon Compensation Advisory Board has written to Post Office chair Nigel Railton, and it does not make comfortable reading. (See below).

In a letter dated 15 May, HCAB Chair Christopher Hodges OBE dismantles the Post Office's justification for contesting Capture conviction appeals point by point — and does so with the precision of someone who has run out of patience.

The core contradiction is simple. Railton told the Business and Trade Select Committee that Capture convictions should be overturned en masse. The Post Office is simultaneously arguing to the Court of Appeal that they should not be. Hodges calls this exactly what it is: "inexplicable and unconscionable."

On the role of lawyers, Hodges is pointed but careful. He notes that those advising the Post Office Board have been involved in the post-Hamilton defence of convictions, and that some come from the same chambers now under inquiry scrutiny. He doesn't question their propriety. He simply asks whether they "come to these matters with the appearance of sufficient independence."

The message to the Board is unambiguous: legal advice is advice, not a binding decision, and it should be "subjected to a degree of common sense — which has not, in our view, yet happened."

The Post Office has apologised. It says it has changed. It says it can be trusted.

Hodges' letter asks, quietly and forensically, what any of those statements mean if this is how the organisation continues to act.

The Post Office continues to be deeply, profoundly sorry. Just never that sorry.

Words are cheap - unless of course you engage external Crisis PR Agencies, in addition to the 26 directly employed in the POL Comms Team‼️

https://t.co/ufQaPBLMOO

@PostOffice @PostOfficeNews @liambyrnemp @CommonsBTC @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords @premnsikka @CastletonLee @BBCEmmaSimpson @SkyNewsAdele @SkyNews @Karlfl @nickwallis @The_Real_JSP @hudgellsol @NeilHudgell @marksweney @rbrooks45 @Rebecca_SPaul @NAOorguk

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

@tardisgirl93 I'd say its a big mistake 😞😓

[Action for Happiness @actionhappiness]

Remember to be kind. We often only see a small part of what other people are carrying

Image: https://t.co/k68pooPqz6

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

#PostOfficeScandal #PR
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."

@CastletonLee
@Janetsk20073533
@PostOffice
@NAOorguk
@Rebecca_SPaul @CommonsPAC @CommonsBTC https://t.co/Dr8fWLxNb8

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough. Thanks for being you and doing what you do. You are a legend and the world wouldn’t be the same without you in it.

#SirDavidAttenborough #DavidAttenborough #DavidAttenborough100

[Christopher Head OBE @chrish9070]

#PostOfficeScandal Yesterday the government Department @biztradegovuk announced the closure of the GLO Compensation Scheme. It will close to new applicants from the 31st July 2026 with a view to the scheme concluding by 31st December 2026. They used the words, 'following successful delivery'. They are unfortunately marking their own homework. It is not for the Department or Ministers to say the scheme was successful, that is for the victims and claimants to decide if that is the case. The successful delivery is marked by the number of eligible applicants versus the number of settled claims. The department also classes a claim that has settled as being paid as full and fair. But the question that should be asked is do those claimants believe they have been paid full and fair redress.

A couple of months ago I wrote to the Minister and the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, as well as suggesting this to @Ipsos @Ipsos_in_the_UK that all claimants in the scheme should be asked this question :-

Do you believe you have received redress in the GLO scheme that is full and fair in your opinion?

If the answer to that question is yes, then that is what the scheme was supposed to deliver, and if that came in with a high percentage score over say 90% you could claim the scheme was successful. However if a large number of people answered no, i.e. they did not receive a sum that was close or at the amount they claimed, further questions must be asked to those people, which should be something like :-

What is the reason you believe you did not receive redress that was full and fair in the GLO scheme?

Did your claim reach the end of the process, after progressing to the 2 independent panel stages and then to the final reviewer (retired Judge, Sir Ross Cranston?

Or did you settle the claim at an earlier stage for any kind of reason? (This could be due to ill health, financial problems, stress, being unable to cope with the adversarial and drawn out process or other reasons).

This matters because if people have received 100% of their claims, or have completed the entire process with an Independent Reviewer deeming the offer to be full and fair, that again can be said to be a successful delivery. BUT if people have settled their claims at a much earlier junction in the process because they didn't feel they could continue and keep fighting after many years of already doing so, it is very likely at least some of those people have not received redress which is full and fair, and therefore the scheme cannot be deemed to be 'successful'. it will simply be delivered.

It is important to note the scheme has changed since it was first opened, there were all kinds of adversarial games and risks associated with the claim process, especially when challenging an offer to the Independent Panels, as I first highlighted almost 18 months ago, which led to a campaign to introduce the best offer policy. I am certain some of those who did not or could not keep fighting until the full process was exhausted have NOT received redress that is full and fair. I say this as several people who I have assisted alongside their lawyers, have seen significant uplifts in offers towards the end of the process compared to the initial offers.

There are 492 eligible claimants for this scheme, 482 claims have been received. It is important to understand the reason/s for the remaining 10 people not yet submitting a claim to the scheme.

I spoke with @JoshPaynePA to give my reaction to that announcement and statement from the Department. While it is fair to say, some claimants have likely received redress which is full and fair, it is also likely that a number have not received redress which is full and fair. There will be a number of reasons for this. I know of several claimants who reluctantly accepted offers either due to ill health or they could not tolerate the process that had already been ongoing since March 2023, which is over 3 years since the original GLO court action concluded and was settled.

Several articles were produced on the back of this. Three to note are from the @ChronicleLive @TheNorthernEcho and @heraldscotland

The article in the @ChronicleLive by @samuelevolpe can be read here👇

https://t.co/N3bmKG9eLm

A South Tyneside man who became the nation's youngest subpostmaster only to be accused of stealing thousands has criticised the Government for "marking its own homework" when it comes to compensation for the Horizon accounting scandal. Christopher Head, like hundreds of others, was wrongly accused of stealing cash from his branch.

He had taken over the West Boldon Post Office aged just 18 in 2006, only to be accused of stealing £80,000. The criminal case against him was dropped, but the Post Office then pursued him through the civil courts.

Mr Head was made an OBE for his campaigning in December 2024. He was one of 492 subpostmasters entitled to apply for redress under a scheme following a "group litigation order" (GLO) that came after the High Court legal action launched by Sir Alan Bates and 554 others between 2017 and 2019.

He said the scheme could have “wrapped up a year ago” if the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) had listened to feedback from claimants.

The Horizon accounting system, operated by Japanese firm Fujitsu, made it look like money was missing from subpostmasters’ branch accounts. It is at the centre of the long-running Post Office scandal, which saw around 1,000 people wrongly prosecuted and convicted between 1999 and 2015.

On Tuesday, the Department for Business and Trade said the GLO scheme would close to new applicants on July 31, with a view to concluding on December 31 following “successful delivery”. But Mr Head questioned whether it had in fact been successful.

He told the Press Association: “That’s the department saying it’s been successful, and that to me comes back to a fundamental problem we’ve had with Post Office and DBT all the time, which is that they are marking their own homework.

“They’re going to say ‘we’ve received this many claims and we’ve paid them so that means it’s been successful’, but what I call successful is… has the scheme successfully paid full and fair redress to those people?

“The department class full and fair redress being paid when someone accepts an offer – but there might be various reasons why someone might accept an offer. So I don’t see why it should be DBT that should say that it has been successful, it should be the claimants.

“I would honestly like every single person to be asked the question ‘do you believe you have received redress that is full and fair?’ and just place it in a yes and no table – that will tell you whether the scheme has been successful.

“In my view, in some cases it has been successful because we have seen deliveries of redress that are above what people have claimed, but there are other people I know who have said ‘I’ve had enough, I’ve literally had enough’, and therefore the scheme might have been completed, rather than successful.

“But there is still a number of people who have not received what the department set out to achieve, which is full and fair redress.”

Mr Head said his own claim had taken a total of 744 days - and added it had taken "a hell of along time" to get the scheme into the shape it is in now.

Mr Head explained he was representing vulnerable people in “seriously ill health” who are part of the GLO scheme and who have not been able to communicate with their own lawyers because they do not “understand the legalities”, or are not in the “right frame of mind”.

He said DBT had taken too long to get the scheme where it is today, saying: “You’re providing them feedback and saying ‘these problems are happening’, and the department’s stance in the most part that I could see, especially in the very first 12-18 months of the scheme operating… they just buried their heads in the sand. There was always an excuse about why it couldn’t be done.

“If the department had actually taken on the feedback and actually listened to the claimants and their lawyers about what things could have been done to improve or implement it, we could have had this scheme wrapped up a year ago.

"The fact that they dug their heels in… I think the gripe is the delay doing it and the department’s refusal to listen to claimants and their lawyers was the first part – and there are still people who still believe they haven’t received the full and fair redress they are entitled to. But it’s very hard to say whether that’s the department’s fault or something wrong with the claim.”

The DBT said as of March 31, 90% of GLO scheme claimants had received final redress, with £223 million paid out to victims.

Post Office Minister Blair McDougall said: “The postmasters in the GLO group were the first to lead the charge for justice, and they deserve to see this chapter closed with the full and fair redress they are owed. Setting these deadlines is about making sure that happens.

“We are 90% of the way there, and I am determined that the remaining claims are resolved quickly and fairly, with proper support for anyone who needs it.” DBT said more than £1.5 billion had been paid out to Horizon victims since the summer of 2024.

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

Please be kind.

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

This explains so much!

[Doc Em🕷🇪🇺 @DocEmUK]

I’ve been doing this GP malarkey for nearly 20y now. It struck me today that the only way I can carry on practising the way I used to is if I do it at my own personal expense. It never used to be like this - there was enough time in the day for bereavement visits, wellbeing checks, proactive care, time with colleagues to discuss patients & build relationships.
General practice today is decision making at the same speed as a shoot-em-up game. Today was just me for 55 same day requests for appointments, clinical supervision of three members of staff, medical student education, paramedic education and all routine needs for a population of 1250 patients.
We’re fortunate to have personal lists - though the new contract doesn’t value the continuity at all - and that matters to me deeply.
Leaving work at 7, I decided to pop in to a patient of mine that I’ve known for 14y. In their 80s, they’ve just had joint replacement surgery and are having a bit of a wobble. We had a chat, they felt better, we have a plan & I’ll check in next week.
This is the kind of GP I want to be.
My day would have been less frantic, I’d have eaten/urinated at a sensible time, and I’d would have been less snappy with the children whom I saw briefly before bed if there hadn’t been so much nonsense crowding my day: 25 mins on hold trying to get through to a specialist (and failing), an insurance company slyly demanding a conversation with me about a non-urgent issue because it saves them money, dealing with consequences of private tests not requested by me but with the inevitable ‘see your GP’ as disposition, missing discharge medication, delayed follow-up, inappropriate ‘GP to’ as the heart failure team have a waiting list - and much more.
Commissioning gaps, poor clinical pathway planning, govt targets on access over quality, media perpetuation of entitlement over responsibility and disproportionate investment & expansion of specialists over general practice have caused this. This is not ‘part time’ GP working - as a partner that’s never a thing. This is expectations from everywhere without resourcing to match.
We want to deliver the things we did 20y ago - that’s why we went into this.
If you want your family doctor back then you need to support us - because we want to be that too. I’m a GP, but also a Mum, wife and daughter of aged parents. I can’t do this at my own expense any more, and nor should I have to. Arguments of laziness and greed always abound, but really what we need is a properly resourced service. Please stand with us - a fight is coming.

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

6 wasted years! It's criminal that innocent people are being treated so appallingly.

[Varchasanraj V Patel @VarchasPatel]

6-years wasted in defensive battles and adversarial tactics by Post Office, DBT and its lawyers. Watching dad's wrongful conviction overturned 6 months before your judgement, I hoped life would improve. But 6-years on, here we are. #PostOfficeScandal

Never Give In. We will win!!

[Sally Jane @Sass7777]

Love wins every time #Love

[Morden Station @MordenStation]

Thursday 5th March 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Underground Station

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

If you feel like giving up please, please, please remember the reasons why you held on for so long.