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I learnt about the story from Private Eye, they'd been following it for years, there were other sources as well though, but none of them were the national press

I learnt about the story from Private Eye, they'd been following it for years, there were other sources as well though, but none of them were the national press or the BBC or ITV. This story wasnt glamourous for them and they only swooped in when well after the court cases when it looked like there would be political dimension. Its sad that proper investigative journalism is only found in the smaller publications these days.

hermitcrab 3y ago
>none of them were the national press or the BBC or ITV There was a BBC Panoram program in 2015: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4961332/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4961332/
toyg 3y ago
> they only swooped in when [...] it looked like there would be political dimension. I'll tell you more: it's only being pushed now, after the tv production, because it tangentially involves the two leaders of the opposition.
- pjc50 3y ago
  In what way?
  - toyg 3y ago
    Keir Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service in those years. Some (but not all) prosecutions were likely picked up and carried out by the CPS. How much the head of the institution is (or should be) supposed to intervene / interfere in specific issues like this, though, is very debatable. Ed Davey, more damningly, was a minister with responsibility for postal matters at the time the scandal was really breaking. He basically made no effort to help the victims, and just parroted the Post Office line. He now says he was lied to "on a massive scale" which, as a line of defence, is a bit weak. Tbh, the LibDem record, in that government, is pretty bad anyway; simply reminding people of that "Coalition" government is probably enough to blow a few holes in their electoral boats.