Post Office vs DEFRA (Part 6)

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.

One of the parallels between The Post Office’s malfeasance and DEFRA’s is that DEFRA imposed an untested plan to rule over all catteries and kennels using incompetent local authority licensing officers as enforcement - A plan that wasn’t required, had no chance of success or consistent application and saw hundreds of catteries and kennel owners abused or closed - and when DEFRA had reduced the country’s boarding capacity by a third, DEFRA were still pretending four years later that they weren’t responsible for the attempted destruction of an entire sector through a mix of hubris, incompetence and ignorance.

DEFRA wrote dozens of nonsensical rules based on nothing more that their own fantasies and any misinformation that they accepted from the disgracefully ill-informed Canine & Feline Sector Group.

DEFRA took the CFSG’s advice knowing that combined, the CFSG didn’t have any knowledge of hotels or tourism and had no connection with our sector.

It looks to me like Fujitsu were not an accounting specialist but were contracted by the Post Office to provide bespoke software expertise - It looks like the CSFG were offering advice on our sector while just being a front for what amounts to being a white collar criminal gang.
The only advice the CFSG were qualified to offer is a combination of envelope stuffing and emotional exploitation - and a business model lobbying to ensure that they can skim off vast sums from donations to fund lavish executive lifestyles and retain a highly lucrative tax-dodging status while not really doing anything to help the animals people were donating for.

Charities represented by the CSFG fund their own executive lifestyles and via loopholes have a legal right to write these extravagances off as operating costs has to be one of the biggest scandals of our time.

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