The impossible dream

I thought it was. But it wasn’t. The Justice for Subpostmasters’ Alliance has managed to persuade more than 1,000 people to part with enough money to pay for a professional legal team to look after their complaint to the parliamentary ombudsman.

This has just come in from Alan Bates, founder of the JFSA:

“On behalf of the group, many of whom have contributed to this fundraising, thank you for supporting us. It means we can now go on to expose those who were so determined to bury what happened in a whitewashed ‘review’.

The Common Issues and Horizon Issues trials in the High Court last year exposed revelation after revelation of the incompetence and mismanagement by Post Office which devastated hundreds of lives, and even now, there is evidence that this may well run into the thousands. They tried to cover it up year after year and they could never have done this without the support and collusion of government.

Your support has enabled us to go on to expose the maladministration by the government departments charged with the oversight and management of Post Office.

Once again, thank you… and don’t forget to hold on to your payment receipts to recover your pledges when we’ve recovered the costs we are seeking – details will be on the jfsa.org.uk website at that time.”

I’ve just posted something up about this (despite saying yesterday I would be leaving this story alone for a while), so please do have a read (and read this primer if you don’t know what a complaint to the parliamentary ombudsman entails).

And well done, Alan. Well done all.

Have a good evening.

Nick

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