Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "The post office and the government are still playing games" video.

  1. Who was it who famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied,” can anyone recall? Here’s a summary of the situation as it stands now, from the point of view of the Post Office: “We are facing bankruptcy, regardless of this scandal, as our business model has been mismanaged so badly, it may as well have been actively sabotaged. (Indeed, we might suspect that it was?) And our reputational damage cannot get any worse, regardless of what happens. So, we stonewall, call in every favour and use every possible contact to help use fudge the issues as much as possible. Otherwise, if we pay out everyone’s compensation and damages in one go, we are officially bankrupt and out of business. Many of our victims will be gone in the next few years anyway. We just need to outlast them.” That’s sounds about as malignant and cynical as it’s possible to be. But I believe I’m right. The only remedy would be for the barristers pursuing this case to call for specific punitive damages to take into account any further delay in justice (“Justice delayed is justice denied”) and especially swinging punitive damages for the families of the deceased victims. And, more importantly, to keep the public on board, by publicly organising and campaigning with them. The clock must be reset. So its ticking favours the victims and doesn’t work against them. The Post Office must be made to feel the urgency that the victims were so wrongly made to feel when forced into paying back monies they didn’t owe, or giving false confessions.
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