DanaK April 8, 2024 Share April 8, 2024 The real story behind the series and what happened then and what’s going on now. Feel free to ask questions on who, what, where and feel free to answer on what you know and post articles. Yes, this is a true story that’s been going on for a decade or more and it’s very frustrating in so many ways Be aware there will be spoilers for what’s happening in the show. Article that provides background info https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office-gwyneth-hughes-true-story-pbs-1235958210/ 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/
DanaK April 8, 2024 Author Share April 8, 2024 BBC article from 2022 about the govt inquiry that was started up to look at the scandal https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60374182 Private Eye report, date uncertain https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf The Guardian, 2 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/15/post-office-scandal-workers-computer-system Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8335750
DanaK April 8, 2024 Author Share April 8, 2024 (edited) From what I’ve read on another board, this scandal had been going on for at least a decade with accused people trying to get justice, a lot of investigative reporting going on and government ministers ignoring the problem and then a TV series about it is a big hit and then people in government have a fire lit under their butts to do something about it Edited April 8, 2024 by DanaK 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8335756
DanaK April 9, 2024 Author Share April 9, 2024 Alan Bates testifies at Horizon inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/apr/09/sunak-starmer-bates-horizon-post-office-rachel-reeves-cameron-conservatives-labour-uk-politics-live Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8336572
DanaK April 13, 2024 Author Share April 13, 2024 Mr. Bates considers private prosecutions for Post Office officials https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68805556 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8340676
merylinkid April 14, 2024 Share April 14, 2024 GOOD. Turnabout is fair play. Seriously no one thought it odd that the organization brought private prosecutions for theft when those they accused said it was the post office's software. Like, the barristers? Not a single one went "they all were told they were the only one having problems, but that's clearly not the case based on the number of prosecutions." 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8340991
DanaK April 15, 2024 Author Share April 15, 2024 The Guardian: The Post Office inquiry is finally exposing the part the politicians played in the Horizon scandal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/post-office-inquiry-politicians-horizon-scandal-government-profits?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1713190201 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8341900
DanaK April 24, 2024 Author Share April 24, 2024 Director behind hit series says it shouldn’t be a unicorn as he urges mechanism for broadcasters to tell campaign stories https://deadline.com/2024/04/post-office-drama-james-strong-creative-cities-convention-1235892656/ Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8349865
fastiller April 30, 2024 Share April 30, 2024 There is a petition urging prosecution of Vennells and others implicated in the scandal. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8355314
AZChristian April 30, 2024 Share April 30, 2024 And the Archbishop of Canterbury needs to yank that dog collar off her neck. 1 2 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8355357
12catcrazy April 30, 2024 Share April 30, 2024 4 hours ago, AZChristian said: And the Archbishop of Canterbury needs to yank that dog collar off her neck. One of the things that really got me was how this person was supposed to be a woman of the cloth yet in some way rationalized that it was okay what happened to the unfairly accused post-masters. People lost everything they had - including their good names and reputations - yet she went along with it. The whole damn bunch of the upper echelon of the post office should be sued over this terrible miscarriage of justice. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8355547
merylinkid April 30, 2024 Share April 30, 2024 8 hours ago, AZChristian said: And the Archbishop of Canterbury needs to yank that dog collar off her neck. To sit there with the collar on her neck and say "I take no personal responsibility." Kinda misses the whole point. I believe she got an OBE too which needs to be stripped. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8355796
Driad May 1, 2024 Share May 1, 2024 Timeline of the Post Office scandal Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8355848
AZChristian May 1, 2024 Share May 1, 2024 1 hour ago, merylinkid said: To sit there with the collar on her neck and say "I take no personal responsibility." Kinda misses the whole point. I believe she got an OBE too which needs to be stripped. She was stripped of the CBE in February of this year. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8355880
12catcrazy May 3, 2024 Share May 3, 2024 On 4/30/2024 at 9:15 PM, AZChristian said: She was stripped of the CBE in February of this year. I don't think she was "stripped" - I think she handed it back on her own. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8359013
AZChristian May 3, 2024 Share May 3, 2024 2 minutes ago, 12catcrazy said: I don't think she was "stripped" - I think she handed it back on her own. She "planned" to give it back, but - just like managing the Post Office - never got around to it. According to The Guardian (February 2024): The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has forfeited her CBE for “bringing the honours system into disrepute” over her handling of the Horizon crisis. Vennells was named on Friday in a list published on the Cabinet Office website as an individual whose honour had been revoked by King Charles. Issuing an apology last month, Vennells announced that she planned to hand back her CBE “with immediate effect” after a fresh fallout over the Horizon IT scandal, which led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of post office operators. Later in the article, it states "While an individual can signal they want to renounce their honour, the only person who can sign off on the forfeit is the monarch." 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8359018
merylinkid May 22, 2024 Share May 22, 2024 Vennels is being questioned by the Inquiry: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-69042928?at_format=link&at_medium=social&at_link_id=74CABE7E-181B-11EF-A0B8-844E3F7946C7&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign_type=owned&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_origin=BBCBreaking&at_campaign=Social_Flow She's still not taking responsibility. Head of the entire Post Office and still claiming she didn't know private prosecutions were happening. She is either lying or incompetent. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8375509
fastiller May 22, 2024 Share May 22, 2024 7 hours ago, merylinkid said: Vennels is being questioned by the Inquiry: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-69042928?at_format=link&at_medium=social&at_link_id=74CABE7E-181B-11EF-A0B8-844E3F7946C7&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign_type=owned&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_origin=BBCBreaking&at_campaign=Social_Flow She's still not taking responsibility. Head of the entire Post Office and still claiming she didn't know private prosecutions were happening. She is either lying or incompetent. Could be both. I'm going with both. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8375794
merylinkid June 14, 2024 Share June 14, 2024 Mr. Bates is now Sir Alan Bates. He is being knighted as part of the Kings birthday Honors. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8392871
DanaK June 14, 2024 Author Share June 14, 2024 ITV will be making a new documentary about what has happened since the events in the series. I don’t know if PBS will show it here in the US https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/mrbatesvspostoffice-theimpact-itvdocann1 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8392898
merylinkid June 15, 2024 Share June 15, 2024 Although they don't need another documentary. Or honors (nice one though). They need the compensation to get a move on. It's still lagging. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8393165
AZChristian June 15, 2024 Share June 15, 2024 19 hours ago, merylinkid said: Mr. Bates is now Sir Alan Bates. He is being knighted as part of the Kings birthday Honors. Read one article that said he had been offered the knighthood last year, but turned it down. He wouldn't take it until HER CBE had been turned in or cancelled. She did it in January. Good for Sir Alan. A man of integrity. 2 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/145589-the-real-story-behind-the-series/#findComment-8393200
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