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The Boy of the Roy, Gleann Ruaidh.

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@Blackmoor_Film One of the things I miss from Texas. I loved going to the chilli cook-off in Fort Worth

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@YoDanno I must get hold of a copy, one of the few I haven't run. Is it good?

[Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp]

The sub-postmaster knew your name. Then Horizon told a lie – and the Post Office chose to believe the machine over the people.

Hundreds of honest sub-postmasters were accused of theft. Some were bankrupted. Some lost their lives.

The Business and Trade Committee, which I chair, said it plainly: Government must clear every Horizon claim by year's end. And Fujitsu – who built the faulty system – must stop hiding. Name a figure. Set a timetable. So far, they've set aside nothing.

Read my latest column in the Solihull Observer:

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@ArturNadol7566 That was a good doorstepping though

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE LAWYER WHO REFUSED TO TESTIFY NOW FACES HER OWN TRIBUNAL

Jane MacLeod ran the Post Office legal department from 2015 to 2019. That is the exact window when the organisation was busy defending itself against the subpostmasters it had already destroyed.

In 2024 the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry asked her to come and explain herself. She said no. She offered a written statement instead and argued too much time had passed for her memory to matter.

Inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams offered to pay her flights and hotel from Australia where she now lives. She still refused, in person or by video link. He admitted publicly that forcing her back would need a criminal conviction and possibly extradition. That process would outlast most subpostmasters patience for justice. So she walked.

Now the Solicitors Regulation Authority @sra_solicitors has referred her to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. The allegation covers April to July 2024, when she failed to cooperate fully with the Inquiry. She is also named as a significant individual in the Metropolitan Police investigation Operation Olympos.

When @BBC cameras doorstepped her about documents suggesting the Post Office lied about knowing Horizon was faulty, her answer was no comment. A strong move from someone who used to run a legal team built on telling the public the opposite.

Over 900 subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2009 because of broken Fujitsu software. Lives and marriages were wrecked while people in her position drafted the legal advice that kept the lie standing.

A second solicitor, Nick Gould, has also been referred, over how he charged exonerated subpostmistresses for help after their convictions were quashed.

dodging a public inquiry from the other side of the planet while your victims are still waiting for compensation says plenty on its own.

Sources:
@computerweekly
@lawsocgazette
@PostOffInquiry
@sra_solicitors
@nickwallis

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@SPQRRestituor @Nerdcognito Tomb of Annihilation would make an excellent horror style DnD movie

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@albinomachina @Nerdcognito Ah, boy, a bleak DnD anime set on Athas. No that would be something.

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@notoriouszenpub @Nerdcognito It still sucked though

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@YoDanno later you are trying to keep reckless old people alive

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@mac_mccaskill @DavidDavisMP Yes, the government can sort it out if they want, but the will is not there, yet they spend lavishly on lawyers to fight & obfuscate.

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@FBaerald Beautiful work

[Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp]

For too many sub-postmasters, justice delayed has become justice denied. Years after this scandal was exposed, far too many people are still waiting for the redress they deserve. The Government must now throw whatever resource is needed at these schemes to ensure every outstanding Horizon Shortfall claim is settled by the end of this year. Complexity is no longer an excuse for delay.

Fujitsu must also stop sitting on the sidelines. It is extraordinary that a company at the heart of the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history has still failed to set out either the scale or the timetable for its contribution to compensation. It should make an immediate interim payment, commit to a timetable for meeting its full liability, and help bring this shameful chapter to a close.

Read the full report: https://t.co/6RTGeXTy7L

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Post Office IT scandal is one of the most devastating miscarriages of justice in British history.

It is right that Fujitsu - the company that designed the system that decimated the postmasters' lives - contributes to the compensation bill for victims.

Victims must quickly get the compensation and redress they deserve. They have already waited far too long.

https://t.co/DtggEZLy5n

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@PostOffice @TonyVegas123 @RoyalMail thats for sure https://t.co/l090h1klaI

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@stugoo17 @fujitsu @Fujitsu_Global Ah ffs, that will be kicked back into the long grass again then.

[Voice of The Postmaster @voiceofthePM]

@stugoo17 @biztradegovuk @kevinhollinrake @CastletonLee @LostChances2024 @SaraBARLOW

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@Blackmoor_Film Reminds me Greyhawk Ruins also, I sometimes wonder how may groups actually complete this vast dungeon.

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@PostOffice @neilabrad shut up 'jessica'

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@neilabrad @PostOffice There are a lot of things broken with the @PostOffice, I'm afraid. One of the worst is the broken lives of the subpostmasters and their kids. I take it you have heard about the post office scandal, right?

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@YorchTorchGames gen Atlas looks intriguing. I liked the music & aesthetic, so that's a good start.