“The whole of the postal service nowadays – it’s a dead duck. It’s beyond saving,' said Mr Bates
UK's biggest rail factory and HS2 supplier 'needs order of 10 trains to survive'“The whole of the postal service nowadays – it’s a dead duck. It’s beyond saving," said Mr BatesCampaigner Alan Bates said the Post Office is an “atrocious organisation” and “needs disbanding” during his appearance at the public inquiry into
In his witness statement shared at the public inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Bates said he found the letter “disappointing and offensive”. Questioned by counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC on why he took offence to Sir Ed’s letter in 2010, the former sub-postmaster said: “It was because of the structure, wasn’t it.“How can you run or… take responsibility for an organisation without having some interest in… or trying to be in control?”
“Ed has said that he’s sorry that he didn’t see through the Post Office’s lies, and that it took him five months to meet Mr Bates.”Alan Bates said the Government needs to be held “responsible” for their part in the Horizon scandal after “pumping huge amounts of money” into the Post Office. “I have little doubt that it is now feasible to show that many of the prosecutions that the Post Office have pressed home should never have taken place.”5. Post Office ‘after me one way or another’
When asked how he felt upon receiving the letter terminating his contract, Mr Bates chuckled and replied: “I was annoyed with them, to put it mildly, but I think it was partly pretty obvious they were determined to – they were after me one way or another, and the build-up of correspondence over the period was certainly pointing in that direction.”
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