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#LondonCalling: The cruel Post Office scandal & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#LondonCalling: The cruel Post Office scandal & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/16/post-office-data-from-faulty-horizon-software-used-in-court/

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0:00.0

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Ready to spark something. Download the Sims 4 and play for free. I'm John Batser with my colleague Joseph Stern of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.6

He writes political economics.

0:40.1

He's in London and can help me understand a story that is very heartbreaking.

0:46.0

People who are working as sub-postal workers, sub-in-charge of a post office were accused massively, many of them of stealing

0:58.8

from the penny, from the cash in the drawer.

1:04.0

They were accused because of a program from Fujitsu

1:09.0

that showed irregularities in the accounting books. This is some years past.

1:15.0

Uniformly, I've been reading their anecdotes for days in the London Times and the

1:19.5

Telegraph. They were broken by the prosecutions. They couldn't much defend themselves. They said they didn't do it. They weren't believed because the evidence was in the digital printout or digital online of this program that caught irregularities in

1:37.0

the cash box. Now it turns out executives knew, many people knew that there was something wrong with the program and said nothing at the time.

1:46.5

I don't want to go any further because these are exaggerated remarks by people who have had their lives broken or damaged because they were accused by the state of being thieves.

1:57.0

Joe, is this story playing on TV, because I can only see it in the newspapers?

2:02.0

Is the BBC featuring this?

2:04.9

BBC 4, are they doing features on it?

2:08.0

Hey John, yes, I mean this is a huge story over here

2:11.9

and it is a scandal in the worst sense and in fact it has been a movie already and what has triggered

2:18.9

There's upsurge of interest in these cases is that there was a television dramatization of this case in the past

2:26.5

couple weeks on the network I TV, which I think has really stimulated a lot of public outrage. What happened is that you had a lot of people who were small

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