Everyone jumping on the band wagon

JOHN PARKINSON, Kingsway, Mapplewell

An interesting mixed bag to comment on in last week’s Chronicle.

Your columnist Milly Johnson speaks for the vast majority when commenting on the post office scandal and how the political parties have now been ‘galvanised into action’.

After all, it was only 2008 when the Computer Weekly magazine first made people aware of the faulty Horizon computer system...

It may be my memory but I cannot recall any political party, TV channel, radio station or the national press being too concerned to bring this largest miscarriage of justice to the attention of the public.

Obviously, the same people and organisations are not now jumping on the bandwagon following Mr Bates v The Post Office...

From 2008 and a Labour government, then a Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition and finally, to the present Conservative.

If in doubt – and in the true spirit of all politicians – set up an inquiry.

Perhaps the next article by Milly Johnson is easily explained about not having the phone answered when trying to speak to the larger institutions.

Could it be working from home or working from the beach? Calls are on a loop system and if you’re lucky – depending on the weather – someone will eventually answer.

Also yet again, your pages highlight the underspending across the area councils which you first brought to readers’ attention in 2023.

And still some area councils are unable to spend their allocation.

The official answer informs us the money ‘may seem underspent”

Sorry it is NOT spent not “seem underspent “