Evil Diaries: Oppose The Poseurs
Apparently, Thames Water is running out of cash while still being obliged to produce water. This makes one wonder whether the accounts which have ignored such a development can be classified as showing a true and fair view.
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It now transpires that the hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses who have been grotesquely mistreated (i.e. all their savings taken, bankruptcies, suicides) are having to sue the Post Office on a case by case basis for the compensation due to them pursuant to the unravelling of the Horizon scandal. Needless to add these people are almost all exhausted and have no savings to hand to finance civil litigation. Here surely HMG should step in. The Post Office is seen as a branch of HMG and the electorate want fair play to apply. Justice has to accept that those who have been wronged must be immediately paid in full and more. Under no circumstances should some lawyers be allowed to get away with the view that the Post Office must have claims against it proved. HMG must speak for the state and impose justice even if Fujitsu do not meet their share of bill.
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Say Jeremy Clarkson should be paraded through the streets naked rather than the Duchess of Sussex, there would be a disaster. I have seen a picture of the Duchess adjacent to her husband in bed. She has allowed the duvet to rise up a little such that we legmen get a full vision of the naked left hand side of the Duchess. Come back Duchess. All is forgiven.
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Sir Ed Davey says supermarkets have been profiteering. Of course in so remarking he may be a copper-bottomed idiot. But it is far more probable that he is just another politician telling yet another silly lie.
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The arch bish bosh merchant, J Welby, is determined to see that the UK is short of cash by sticking to his anti-Rwanda as a bolthole plan. Given that he has trained as an accountant this is disgracefully irresponsible. As for the Court of Appeal’s judgement, words fail me. I know central Africa well and I can assure all those who do not that the weather is terrific and so is the beer.
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Finally, there was a time when Yorkshiremen were regarded as bluff and sensible. However, the Yorkshire Building Society has shown serious deterioration in the county. I particularly want as many as possible to apply for a current account and then see how long it is operational before YBS’s committee of busybodies close it down. A bonus will be paid for the most preposterous reason for the closing of the account. Competition will be fierce.
On the subject of fair play, how about some for the victims of the Lloyd’s of London asbestos scandal? The judgement of Cresswell following the 200 Jaffray fraud trial stated that Edward Cowtan, a claims manager, had been ‘tipped off’. He quit in 1978, 8 years before I joined in 1986. I telephoned the Daily Mail City Office before joining and their reported who covered Lloyd’s, Ken Allen, said he knew nothing adverse and he had joined himself and thus had access to the market and the freedom to ask questions. Had he uncovered the truth, it would have been the scoop of his career. From 1978 until the peak in 1992, Lloyd’s recruited a further 15,000 ‘Names’. The Court of Appeal also added that Lloyd’s claim in its brochures that there was in place a robust and effective accounting and audit system was untrue. I now have a charge on my home amounting to more than half its value, as do many others. At least 15 and possibly more than 30 ‘Names’ committed suicide when they were financially broken, and several hundred in the Hardship Scheme are in danger. Lloyd’s has a rigid policy of keeping secret any information on the their fate.