Because Fujitsu , while still a subject of this Inquiry, have recently been awarded a contract to manage a flood alert system in the UK.

This whole thing (Inquiry) is beginning to smell really bad. Some notable CBE'd CEO's looking like they might swerve culpability. Is Stephen Bradshaw, a man devoid of any IT knowledge, but led the first investigation into Horizon, going to swerve a jail sentence, or culpability ?

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stripped of her CBE

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"Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has been formally stripped of her CBE for "bringing the honours system into disrepute", according to the Cabinet Office." (BBC website)

She didn't bring the honours system into disrepute. Successive governments have already done that.

I'm not too bothered about the CBE.
How about giving back those wages you never earned ???

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She was being pushed by Comrade Canterbury to be Bishop of London FFS.

I agree the honours system has been abused for decades

We need to replace the Lords with an elected body, WTF do clerics have a place in there

There seems to be foot dragging by the current Govt and offers being made that do not reflect the actual suffering bith financial and reputational

Well done Badenoch for calling the guy as a liar but she'd better be able to prove that

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I can see an argument for just abolishing as well, is a second chamber needed at all.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

My wife raised a point I had no answer to.

The prosecutions were the consequence of a faulty software programme, not remote interference. I don't think it has been asserted by anyone that there were e.g. Fujitsu staffers in some secret bunker deliberately falsifying sub post office data to facilitate prosecutions, or even that there was post facto tampering with evidence to retrospectively justify earlier prosecutions.

If I am wrong, please can somebody out there correct me.

Otherwise, I fail to see the relevance of remote access if it has never been asserted that this ever occurred.

As i understood it, from a radio broadcast,..the remote access was a (failed) attempt to identify software errors and correct them. This was a continual and ongoing program, rather than fixing the faulty software.

They knew the errors were there,...and tried to correct them with remote access, but this ultimately failed. And they continued to prosecute many Postmasters, most of whom lost their careers, some were jailed, and ultimately some took their own lives.

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