{"id":115,"date":"2024-05-23T20:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T14:22:13","slug":"post-office-inquiry-excuse-crib-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Post Office Inquiry Excuse Crib Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have only been able to watch a fraction of the Inquiry on catch-up, but for anyone who has not yet given evidence, you may find this handy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I don&#8217;t remember.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I don&#8217;t remember reading the written account. I also don&#8217;t remember forwarding, replying, printing or downloading it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sadly there is no written evidence and I can&#8217;t remember who I spoke to, however, I remember the conversation clearly and it proves I am innocent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am not sure why I was copied into the email.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This was not my job. This was someone else&#8217;s job. I&#8217;m not clear who though. In fact, I&#8217;m not clear what <strong><em>my <\/em><\/strong>job was, but I got paid loads of money for it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When I saw this I was concerned to get to the bottom of it to ensure we did what was right for the sub-postmasters. I immediately bought it to the attention of someone I don&#8217;t remember and assumed it was going to be dealt with.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I never checked that the problem was dealt with because the person I don&#8217;t remember was an excellent person and it was their job.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The person I don&#8217;t remember, told me we had been lying to MPs, shareholders, the press and JFSP and well as failing to disclose exculpatory evidence to defense teams. I do clearly remember them telling me but it was years after everyone else must have known, so therefore I did nothing about it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The people below me told me the system was working as expected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The people above me told me the system was working as expected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When I said in the email to let the theiving subbies rot in jail, what I actually meant was we should do a full investigation and make sure justice is done, because I was always fighting for them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I deeply regret that I made the mistake of thinking of my paycheck at the expense of innocent people the wrong side of a huge power imbalance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Should cover most eventualities, but if really stuck, just reasurre yourself that people with money and connections never go to prison in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have only been able to watch a fraction of the Inquiry on catch-up, but for anyone who has not yet given evidence, you may find this handy: Should cover most eventualities, but if really stuck, just reasurre yourself that people with money and connections never go to prison in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,22],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-corporate-greed","tag-shareholder-profits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}