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Nick Wallis Profile picture
@nickwallis
May 8 • 10 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Latest development in the Post Office's bonusgate. The Director General of the Business Department, David Bickerton has written to the Post Office demanding an apology for not informing the minister about the falsehood in its accounts and...

#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
... an explanation as to how the falsehood came to be in the annual report. I am reminded that the report is not just filed at Companies House, but (as a govt-owned company) laid before parliament. This means the signatories of the annual report - the Chairman and CEO...
... (the outgoing Tim Parker and Nick Read) misled parliament.

The Post Office knew that it had a falsehood in its annual report (which it still cannot explain) on 6 April, but did not tell the govt it had misled parliament AT ALL. Instead, as we know, it issued...
... a quiet note of correction to its website, the day before a Coronation. It is ONLY because the Statutory Inquiry into the Post Office scandal moved to publish the CEO's letter of apology so quickly that we got to hear about this at all.

I have been in touch with...
... two people good with numbers who have tried to crunch the numbers on this and they reckon the amount Nick Read has handed back from his bonus is between £6000 to £7500, but that is back-of-a-fag-packet stuff from the annual report and may not be correct. I've obviously...
... asked the Post Office for the exact number.

I'll be discussing this with Vanessa on Talk TV at 5pm then with John Pienaar on Times Radio at 5.15pm

If you're knew to this - here's the background: postofficescandal.uk/post/venal-inc…

I'll try to...
... either update the piece with the new info or write a new one tonight, but I'm also meant to be going to see Guardians of the Galaxy 3 tonight, because it's a BH, innit.

ENDS
Knew to this. FFS.
Published in a hurry so forgive any typos or non-sequiturs:

postofficescandal.uk/post/venal-inc…

#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
Now off to watch GotG3. I've heard it's not very good.

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May 10
During @KevanJonesMP (Lab) UQ in parliament today @chrisloder MP (Con) called Post Office CEO Nick Read "a liar" and Chris Pritchard, Post Office Head of Public Affairs "a liar" after meeting with them. V unusual. Reflects the strength of feeling in the House. Hard to see how...
@KevanJonesMP @chrisloder ... how Nick Read gets out of this hole, entirely of his making.

He accepted a bonus for co-operating with a public inquiry, and then signed off a demonstrably false statement in the PO's annual report.

#PostOfficeScandal
@KevanJonesMP @chrisloder Interesting that @chrisloder didn't explain why he said Read and Pritchard were liars (unless it was simply on the basis they told him the Post Office was "great"). Clearly just wanted to get on the record that he believes Pritchard and Read are liars. Very interesting...
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May 5
Holy sh*t. The Post Office applied a senior executive bonus metric about its work on the Post Office Inquiry (without informing the inquiry). Then it used false information to say it had achieved the metric and awarded the executive bonuses, whilst implying...
... the Inquiry chair had confirmed the false information!!!

postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/news/chairs-st…

#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
Post Office lawyers: "At the outset POL wishes to apologise to the Inquiry for setting a target that appeared to require the Chair's participation without asking Sir Wyn for his agreement to that, and for reporting against that target by suggesting the Chair and his team...
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Mar 9
Good morning. I am at the #PostOfficeInquiry in London to watch Fujitsu whistleblower Richard Roll give evidence. I first heard Richard's voice on Alan Bates' cassette recorder in the Dobbie's garden centre café just off the A5 near Shrewsbury. Richard Roll
I first met Richard Roll in the Leathern Bottle pub just outside Wokingham in April 2015. What he told me was something the Post Office were explicitly denying - that Horizon errors could cause holes in Postmaster accounts, and that Fujitsu staff could go into those accounts...
... and change them at will.

By that stage the BBC had commission its first Panorama into the Post Office scandal. Mr Roll became a significant contributor to our programme.

His appearance and what he said in public, on the record, became a significant factor in...
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Mar 8
Asian postmasters who rang helpline about flawed Horizon IT system labelled 'another Patel...'

Top work by @TomWitherow

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
@TomWitherow Times write up:

Postmasters were victims of racist mockery at Horizon helpline:

thetimes.co.uk/article/postma…
@TomWitherow Computer Weekly write up

IT worker evidence reveals a toxic Post Office IT helpdesk that discriminated against subpostmasters:

computerweekly.com/news/365532063…
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 7
Thanks to @TomWitherow for the heads up. Amandeep Singh giving evidence now:



This from Amandeep Singh's Witness Statement...
@TomWitherow ... (he was a Horizon Helpline worker)

"The floor was quite a toxic place, and this manifested itself with colleagues openly mocking the role and complaining to management that the role was not
what they were initially hired for. Many were desperate to leave and as soon as...
... an option came to support another client, many jumped at the chance. Many of these colleagues were frustrated supporting these Postmasters, the toughest day was on Wednesday when it came to reconcile the weeks accounts....
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Mar 5
Two (of many) notable elements sprung from Andrew Winn's car crash evidence session to the #PostOfficeInquiry on Friday. They were:

- Evidence which could have stopped Seema Misra going to prison was withheld by Winn's boss, Rod Ismay:

postofficescandal.uk/post/andrew-wi…
- 2) The Post Office sued, bankrupted and ruined an innocent Postmaster at the High Court specifically to deter other Subpostmasters from attempting to take it to court over holes in their Horizon accounts.

postofficescandal.uk/post/post-offi…

#PostOfficeInquiry

and...
... the infamous 2010 Ismay Report, which warned Post Office colleagues that investigating the Horizon system might lead to them realising innocent Postmasters had been sent to prison, is published for the first time (I think) here:

postofficescandal.uk/post/the-ismay…

#PostOfficeScandal
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