“The former sub-postmaster spent 18 months behind bars, was declared bankrupt and since coming out of prison has struggled to find work. He and Balbinder have had to sell their home and now rely on benefits.”
(His outrageous fraud conviction was one of those quashed by Ct App)
“The story of how a great British institution unfairly criminalised hundreds of law-abiding citizens is an astonishing tale of corporate cover-up, political mismanagement and personal injustice.”
There needs to be not only a full public inquiry, but prosecutions of PO bosses
“I still can’t believe we’re living in the UK and this kind of thing goes on. We were guilty until we could prove our innocence.”
“Neil Hudgell, lawyer for several sub-postmasters, says:
‘These decisions aren’t made by automatons. At the end of the day there is someone at the top of the PO food chain that is making decisions that are being rolled out, so you end up with a culture of secrecy & cover-up’.”
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Key point:
‘The Judge confirmed that @ReclaimTS’ assessment of
the law is correct: not all protest is, or can be treated as, illegal
under the Tier 4 rules.’
“unless it is necessary and proportionate to prevent persons gathering to exercise their right to freedom of expression and assembly, having regard to the individual facts and circumstances of the protest in question, such a protest is not prohibited by the Tier 4 regulations”
“this means that Arts 10 & 11 require police to facilitate & uphold the right to protest and that they only prevent it where, following a proper assessment, this is necessary and proportionate in the particular circumstances of the
protest in question”
I’m sure there is not the slightest reason to worry about Tory govt plans to scrap EU regs post-Brexit to ‘reduce burdens’ on City firms in order to ‘improve its competitiveness’. ft.com/content/387084…
“the City - ever quick to scent an opportunity - is positioning itself to have greater influence over the reshaping of the post-Brexit rulebook” ft.com/content/199e20…
“Proposals by Lord Hill, former EU fin servs commissioner leading govt’s review into City, to change UK listing rules have been welcomed by financiers keen to attract more flotations, but questioned by investors who fear the London market’s high standards are being compromised.”
“event was widely recorded in the press, with Yorkshire Post reporting that ‘a woman actually voted!’ Taking a hostile view, it suggested that the polling clerk should have ignored Maxwell’s claim when she appeared to vote, ‘as he would have ignored that of a child 10 yrs old’.”
“Just 5 months earlier, the Commons had rejected – by 196 votes to 75 – John Stuart Mill’s proposal to extend the franchise to women by substituting the word ‘person’ for man in the 1867 Reform Act.”
An appropriate use of gender neutral terminology in legislation...
Just feeling maudlin - 70th birthday in a week’s time, without Steve.
Not asking for sympathy, I know so many other people have suffered losses.
But it’s a bugger, nonetheless.
Had a lovely chat last week with my mother-in-law (100 in May) when she reminded me that ‘Stephen always joked that he married an older woman’.
This was because I was 2 months older than him!
Cheering myself up with some of my favourite booster tracks:
- Bryn Terfel & the Dunvant Male choir: Calon Lan
- Phil Coulter/Nathan Carter: The Town I Knew so Well
- Rod Stewart: Grace, & Downtown Train
“Simon Spurrell said he has lost 20% of his sales overnight after discovering he needed to provide a £180 health certificate on retail orders to consumers in the EU, including those buying personal gift packs of his award-winning wax-wrapped cheese worth £25 or £30.”
“He says he had hoped to take part in the ‘sunny uplands’ promised by the government post-Brexit but has instead seen the viability of his online retail come to a ‘dead stop’.”
“To save his business he will now have to switch a £1m investment he was planning to make in a new distribution centre in Macclesfield to the EU, with the loss of 20 jobs and tax revenue to the UK.”
“Despite Johnson's repeated claims that Brexit is a great opportunity for British exporters and would lead to some kind of revival for free trade, the reality is very different”
“While it should be a source of embarrassment for the PM that his deal has made life very difficult for many of the industries that he has championed post-Brexit, Johnson's public statements on the matter suggest he is oblivious to the reality that many are facing.”
“chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink:
‘This isn't as simple as an IT glitch that needs fixing. In a matter of days, we went from being able to send fresh food to Madrid with a single cover sheet of paperwork. Now there are roughly 26 steps for each transaction’.”