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The redress schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have “serious structural failings”, a parliamentary committee has found.

Still not jailed the entire board of directors yet so of course there are significacnt failings.

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Grist
Grist
1 month ago

And in true 21st Century Britain, the buffoon who was in charge of it all was knighted for his ignorance and incompetence and is now in charge of a bunch of illiberal, undemocratic onanists who pretend to be a political party. Still at least he’s not an Islamogroupie like his fellow knight, multi-tier Kier…

Theophrastus
Theophrastus
1 month ago
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Eh?
Davey regularly issues messages of solidarity during Ramadan and Eid, often thanking British Muslims for their “wonderful contributions” and “positive impact” on society. And he has repeatedly urged the UK government to adopt the APPG on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia. And…

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Western Bloke
Western Bloke
1 month ago

Byrne noted that Fujitsu had “yet to contribute a penny to the nearly £2bn redress bill”, even as it continued “to benefit from public contracts”.

He said: “That cannot continue. It is simply wrong that taxpayers are covering the costs for Fujitsu’s sins while Fujitsu is still profiting from taxpayers funded contracts.”

If Fujitsu “sinned”, if the software didn’t meet the contract, the redress of that was to penalise them in the contract.

It wasn’t Fujitsu who took these people to court, it was the Post Office, who knew the software was flaky.

And well, if you think Fujitsu are so shit, why are the government still giving them work?

(One of the realities of government software is that there is no review of the design, and the level of acceptance testing is pathetic. I’ll bet that not even one test was done around broken transactions.)

dearieme
dearieme
1 month ago

Jail? Effing firing squad, more like.

And there are still bloody fools who argue that governments are fit to run businesses.

rhoda klapp
rhoda klapp
1 month ago

Failings? Crossing the bug/feature line there, it’s working as designed.

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