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The Two Matts

"Prosecute The Post Office"

The Two Matts

The New World

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.2577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Has justice been done in the appalling scandal of the Post Office’s prosecution of subpostmasters? Not by a long chalk. The convictions may be overturned, the compensation cheques arranged … but what about punishing those responsible? The Two Matts anticipate the next phase of this sorry saga - and try to understand the mindset of Post Office management over two decades who allowed a culture of contempt for decent employees to turn their organisation into a case study of capitalism gone awry. Also - who are the masters of the universe assembling in Davos and what do they want? To improve the world or perpetuate their own power?

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journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two Matt's podcast for the

1:01.7

week ending Friday, the 12th of January. Matt, what did we talk about this week? We talked a lot about

1:06.8

corporate greed in the context of both the appalling post office scandal and then we went on and talked a bit about Davos.

1:14.8

Yeah.

1:15.1

Yeah, I think one of the things that we thought strongly both of us was that this is the post office story is only half finished and that there needs to be prosecutions to be prosecutions you know people need to go

1:28.7

to jail well that gives us a clear title for the podcast anyway prosecute the post office doesn't it

1:33.8

yeah prosecute the post office love it all right so welcome to the two mats podcast for the

1:39.5

week ending the 12th of january uh prosecute the post office.

1:44.7

Enjoy.

1:52.4

So Matt, what are we going to talk about this week?

1:58.4

Well, I guess only one show in town, really, which is the post office scandal, which has been around for a long time.

1:59.7

But yesterday at the PMQs, we're

2:02.7

recording this on Thursday, Rishi Sunak made a brief statement about what the government now

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