Standing up for the Post Office

So Councillor Clive Jones, current Liberal Democrat leader on Wokingham Borough Council, has been selected to stand for Parliament ( Wokingham.Today Thursday, March 3, 2022). He accuses the Conservatives of taking the people of Wokingham for granted.

I hope that if Cllr Jones becomes an MP he will fight with all his might to have those who supported the Post

Office bosses in their persecution of innocent sub-postmasters prosecuted as soon as possible. It’s probably the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

Prosecution would not be too good for the perpetrators and their supporters surely?

Of course, the inconvenient truth is that some senior Liberal Democrats gave their backing to the Post Office bosses when they were in a Coalition Government and everybody was agreeing with Nick (I wonder what became of him?)

Sir Vince Cable said “no evidence of system-wide problems with Horizon”. This is a computer system, the problems with which caused sub-postmasters to be prosecuted for fraud.

Jo Swinson - “no evidence of system wide problems with

Horizon”.

Sir Ed Davey - Emphasised to subpostmasters that the Post Office had “full confidence in the integrity and robustness of the Horizon system”. Sir Ed is of course the current national leader of the Liberal Democrats and was postal affairs minister from 2010 to 2012. He was contacted by subpostmasters about Horizon.

All of this should come as no suprise. It was in The Sunday Times on Februray 27, 2022.

Can the people of Wokingham really trust the Liberal Democrats, whose current national leader is Sir Ed Davey and who has endorsed Cllr Jones, when they seemingly allowed the Post Office Bosses to hang subpostmasters out to dry? The integrity of the Post Office Bosses involved was taken for granted after all.

Please note that I am not, nor ever have been, a member of any political party.

I do recognise sanctimonious hypocrites when I see them, though.

Paul Clarke, Wokingham