Post Office victims champion Alan Bates has referred to as for the Post Office to be offered to the likes of Amazon for a pound as he described it as “a dead duck”.
Appearing earlier than MPs on the Business and Trade Committee, Mr Bates referred to as for the Post Office to be faraway from administering compensation schemes and stated it might be “a money pit for the taxpayer for years to come”.
Despite the general public outcry after ITV drama Mr Bates v The Post Office, and authorities motion, compensation schemes haven’t turn into speedier or fairer, he stated.
When requested if he was reassured that the federal government has a grip of the redress course of, Mr Bates stated no.
“I’m afraid it’s very disappointing… I can’t see any end to it,” he stated.
The smartest thing to result in quicker and fairer justice could be to take away the Post Office from schemes, he added.
“Take them out of the system,” he stated. “Send someone in to do the job for them, get rid of our Post Office out of any of these schemes. That’s the best thing you can do.”
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Those coping with claims achieve this from an “ivory tower”, he added.
“Those who are making the decisions about the actual claims, or what claims are going to be made, do not meet the victims face to face and discuss it with them.
“It’s all carried out from an ivory tower from elsewhere and ticking field and that is it, there job is finished and out of the way in which”.
Cultural problems within the organisation are persistent and will remain, Mr Bates said. “It’s been the identical for donkey’s years. It won’t change and you can not change it.”
What would help, he said, is money coming out and a sped up process by getting rid of bureaucracy: “People are going to should take different individuals’s phrases”.
Another sub-postmaster appearing before the committee, Tony Downey, shared his experience of not being believed in his compensation dealing. “I feel for many of us, we’re not believed, it is as if we’re making this up.”
“They admit it on paper but when it comes to it, they’re not bothered,” Mr Downey stated.
Despite docs saying the stress of coping with the Post workplace and the chapter brought about his breakdown, Mr Downey stated the Post Office “chose to ignore all of that” and as a substitute stated he’d had household issues and referred to a letter from 12 years later which stated he’d bipolar tendencies.
Source: information.sky.com”