Post Office vs DEFRA (Part 3)

by Cat Whisperer — on  ,  ,  , 

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Mr Bates vs The Post Office has been an extraordinary successful vehicle to humanise the victims of a small number of out of control unaccountable self-serving monsters.

Monsters who ensured that regular law abiding people had their livelihoods cancelled, were relieved of their savings, lost their homes, lived in cars and some were put in prison for crimes the Post Office knew were never committed.

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Parallels of injustice …

  • Closing small post offices down and accusing hundreds of sub-postmasters of theft on the basis of software errors is no more egregious than closing down boarding establishments for imaginary infractions or failing to implement hundreds of specious and ridiculous standards made up by DEFRA.
  • The Sub-Postmaster court case was won in 2019 and DEFRA’s first inspections of catteries and kennels started in 2019 - Only now have Post Office buraucrats been exposed and compesations started to be awarded, and we haven't even got off the starting block with DEFRA.
  • Multiple MP’s were aware of what DEFRA and the Post Office was doing because the attacks on businesses and livelihoods occurred across multiple constituencies.
  • Ministerial oversight was in place over both the Post Office & DEFRA.
  • Both institutions chose to harm multiple communities across the country simply through decisions made by individuals serving a corporate structure that incentivises self-delusion, lies and cover ups.
  • Everyone was made to feel like they were the only people affected because everyone was running their own businesses with little to no contact with anyone else.
  • In both cases none of the anomalies were isolated, there were many widespread problems that the institutes consciously ignored.
  • Individuals in both institutions decided that protecting the institution was more important than any truth.
  • No resolution occurred because individuals and small unaccountable groups within the institutions chose to allow businesses to close to save themselves long after they knew that they had no defence.

This discussion of the Post Office fiasco and the DEFRA debacle is covered in ten short articles:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10