MaizieD
According to the 'reasoning' of some posters it seems to me that we should make a clean sweep of everyone who held a government office between 1996 and 2015. I'm not quite sure on what grounds they must be got rid of, but, hey, the were in government and the government owns the post office but none of them did anything to stop its outrageous behaviour, so off with all their heads....
I can see how bloody revolutions gather momentum....
Indeed, they didn't do anything because too many of them have their noses in the trough. Did you know that Rishi Sunak's wife has earned millions in dividend payments from Fujitsu? Her family own a part of the company.
Ed Davey received a handsome payment from the solicitors ruthlessly prosecuting (and lying to) the sub postmasters. He was a consultant at that firm whilst also Minister for the Post Office.
Paula Vennells was granted her CBE in 2019 when the full horrors of the PO scandal were know to the Government (that's if we are to believe they didn't know from the outset). She was also one of three candidates chosen to be Bishop of London.
I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg and, if we knew the whole truth, it could actually blow the lid off the establishment including the church. It's pretty rotten at the top, not the bottom as they would have us all believe. So, up the revolution I say.
According to the 'reasoning' of some posters it seems to me that we should make a clean sweep of everyone who held a government office between 1996 and 2015. I'm not quite sure on what grounds they must be got rid of, but, hey, the were in government and the government owns the post office but none of them did anything to stop its outrageous behaviour, so off with all their heads....
I can see how bloody revolutions gather momentum.... 
I do wish the Post Mistress who is taking on Ed Davy in his constituency of Surbiton every success. As stated in an interview in yesterday's Sunday Times she is seeking to represent the "little people" she has already been involved as an independent councillor taking on the problem of a cycle lane imposed on the people of New Malden by the Lib Dem Council. In nearby Kingston, an area I lived adjacent to for over 35 years, a cycle lane there which takes up at least half of a major road, is often empty whilst the traffic is all stacked up and squeezed into an exceedingly narrowed main road sometimes gridlocked.
I wish we had more ordinary people go into politics who are on the ground, serving and understanding their local communities instead of who we have got. Far too many career politicians, who come from over privileged backgrounds in the first place, very little experience of life, on graduating and with handy connections to ease their way into the political arena via some sort of advisory job which often appears to be a pre requisite before the inevitability of becoming an MP.
I think what the recent programme highlighting the injustices of the Post Office debacle illustrated, is how sick the ordinary person is of the malaise that hangs around our so called elite in both business and politics. It's the lack of culpability and the conspiratorial way they appear to have each others backs rather than to investigate a miscarriage of justice until the lid has been blown thoroughly off it and they've finally sensed the public mood.
I hope Ed Davy loses his seat like his predecessors. Look where Nick Clegg is now and how easily he managed to shed his principles. I suppose it's a small mercy he's over there and not here in the House of Lords, what a travesty given the Greensill scandal that Cameron has been elevated to that status 
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