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Post by ozboy on May 16, 2024 22:01:07 GMT
Funnily enough, before I checked back on this thread, literally minutes ago I asked on the PO Horizon thread whether The Post Office had taken Operational Guidance from the FCA?
Great Minds think alike!
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Post by ozboy on May 16, 2024 21:55:03 GMT
So this is a dumb / naive question. Maybe Mousey would like to opine? We have "council for the inquiry", or whatever they are actually called. Mr Bear etc. And very effective they are too. We also have barristers / lawyers (?) for other interested parties, eg the sub-Post Masters, or Mr Jenkins etc. When preparing for a witness, do those barristers / lawyers work together? Are they allowed to? Or would that be considered inappropriate (?) collusion (?). I realise that this is an inquiry and not a case heard before a court but I am unsure about the mechanices wrt to this, or their import. There's a useful guide here - www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/a-guide-to-public-inquiries which does explain the role of counsel to the inquiry. Jason Beer KC also wrote the book on public inquiries but it's a tad expensive coming in at £257! I simply don't know enough about the process to answer your other questions. I suspect there's a spirit of co-operation between the barristers to ensure time is used wisely.Oh Rodent One, many would say there is definitely " a spirit of co-operation between barristers", and just as many would say that it encompasses much more than just "time." 😉
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Post by ozboy on May 16, 2024 21:47:59 GMT
I wonder if The Post Office was taking Operational Guidance from the FCA?
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Post by ozboy on May 16, 2024 20:01:21 GMT
Rodent One, or anyone else on here, do you know where the Curries are paying their dues?
Are they in some Country Club with freedom of movement, fine dining, swiming pool and tennis courts, etc, or are they where they should be, in a rat infested shithole, let out for an hour a day, and living on bread & water?
I SINCERELY hope it is the latter.
But I do FEAR it's the former?
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Post by ozboy on May 16, 2024 19:45:51 GMT
This has been discussed on here before, but I'm not particularly bright, and I still wonder if I am missing something that one or more of you very informed & learned lot out there might opine further on and add some enlightening sage thoughts?
We, (I anyway), KNOW that arse covering "Reputational Management" is THE Number One Priority of the FCA, above ALL else, it IS their raison d'etre, and it comes long before and at the expense of any consideration of silly "Consumer Protection".
Given that one or more individuals are very EASILY proven to be 100% Guilty of Blatant FRAUD, WHY has the FCA done ...................... nothing?
I can but repeat my opinion that it is because the FCA is absolutely terrified of the wider public becoming aware (educated?!) of what a Crock of Gross Incompetence the FCA is, if they were to instigate Proceedings.
But, as I say, maybe I'm missing something, and there's more to this monumental FCA facilitated financial fiasco than my tiny mind can comprehend?
Thoughts please?
I thank you.
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Post by ozboy on Apr 2, 2024 19:54:21 GMT
12 yrs in jail... Sweet! Hopefully, while he's in there, one day he'll slap the wrong arse and get a more direct form of punishment as well. Not sure the CPS will get much out of their intended asset-seizing activities; anything that isn't hocked up to the eyeballs is likely squirreled away. MD might be a twot of the highest order, but he is a resourceful twot, no doubt. Actually, I've got a fair amount to be grateful to MD for. It was Lendy's insistence that MD was good for the loans in spite of the incredible amount of evidence to suggest otherwise, that prompted me to dump the platform. Still happy to see him go down for a stretch though. Only thing is that I now wonder why the Curie Bros got off so lightly... a mostly academic exercise and I am pretty well aligned with duck 's line of thinking around the FCA, quick wins and not drawing too much attention to their part in the whole CollateralUK fiasco. Yep, the "Jock Boatyard" on Funding Secure started my serious misgivings about P2P, and this Lendy fiasco convinced me to get out altogether asap. Some people should be very embarrassed about what they posted in the early days of this thread, if they haven't deleted them by now. I tried to argue VERY hard about the serious danger of ridiculously inaccurate "Professional Valuations" and was considered to be scaremongering, most at the time were of the mind that ludicrously high over-valuations weren't something to be concerned about! I found it VERY hard to understand that line of thinking. Of coure, "getting out of P2P" is virtually impossible as it can take years. Whilst you're locked in you can't do a thing about it, and watch in horror as the car crash you KNEW was going to happen, slowly happens, over months and months and years. I'm just pleased that the super competent FCA were hard on the case and all over it all the time, protecting our interests.
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Post by ozboy on Mar 11, 2024 19:24:27 GMT
What could ever go wrong, an "investment" that is based purely on "confidence" and has zero assets backing it ................ Now at a record high of over $71k. Fill yer boots! I'll keep my shirt thanks.
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Post by ozboy on Jan 27, 2024 20:15:20 GMT
Anybody who's not absolutely hetero-cis is a "vacuous ... wet fcukwit", iyho? Your "logic" is not even appalling, it's something FAR beyond that .........
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Post by ozboy on Jan 27, 2024 18:22:22 GMT
Because they're a vacuous generation of wet fcukwits? ...and that's what you think "28% identify as LGBT+" says to you, is it? Yes.
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Post by ozboy on Jan 27, 2024 18:14:24 GMT
Because they're a vacuous generation of wet fcukwits?
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Post by ozboy on Jan 20, 2024 23:12:08 GMT
I think "corporate liability" was the phrase I was looking for, and I suspect that both Fujitsu and the Post Office could be facing criminal and civil liability at the end of this. I hope so, you can't just knowingly crush people and totally ruin their lives because of your own mistakes. Oh, wait a minute, the FCA can ........
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Post by ozboy on Jan 18, 2024 22:51:36 GMT
As my passport has recently expired and cant be bothered to go through the tedious process of renewing it I am looking for a list of all the countries I could visit/move to whithout one. An added bonus would be ones who offer free accomodation and food with a few quid a week spending money. Thanks Oh, you ARE cheeky, but I like you!
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Post by ozboy on Jan 11, 2024 19:44:50 GMT
Our clinic is much the same. Hit or a miss on what service quality you get. 5 options to press before a long wait to get call answered by a disinterested teenager who either never listens or cuts you off. No one to complain to without fear of being barred and a different Gp if you are lucky enough to see one. The nurses are great though for routine jabs etc. A truly broken system . Today's disgraceful figures sum this up. No political party can fix it. This was happening way before covid. Fingers crossed it improves or a 2 tier system will surely develop. FAR too many people using the NHS who have paid fornication all towards it? Supply and Demand isn't it? And No Shows should definitely receive a hefty billing, as should Health Tourists.
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Post by ozboy on Jan 9, 2024 20:41:13 GMT
I liked this quote about Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, According to Alan Rusbridger of Prospect, " There is almost nothing to know about Charlotte Owen. She is a blank sheet of paper. She has done very little of note. She has no discernible views about anything. The sum total of her achievements would barely stretch to the full 280 characters of a tweet". Its possible of course, that she is actually Boris Johnson's daughter Or his father's?
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Post by ozboy on Jan 9, 2024 18:18:10 GMT
It was mentioned on Radio 4 earlier that the Post Office have spent more money on lawyers fighting against the clearing of wrongly prosecuted (sub) postmasters than they have compensating those same (sub) Postmasters. IMHO Ed Davey and Paula Vennells should be giving back their honours although in the latter case the petition to remove it has hit 800,000 signatures. one thing I don't understand, why when Horizon was wrong the Post Office in many cases forced Postmasters to pay they money back ( despite it not really being owed). But the compensation is being paid by the Government ie it is coming from our pockets. "..........the Post Office have spent more money on lawyers fighting against the clearing of wrongly prosecuted (sub) postmasters........"Obviously copied and followed The FCA Rule Book.
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