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I rarely post because of the trolls but I am sharing the honour of being invited by the King to the #GardenParty today. I am taking our team at @WB_UK in spirit and eating cake for every #whistleblower #OfficeOfTheWhistleblower

@AllisonPearson @BBC All possible due to the UNIQUE way the BBC is funded...

@ShangriLaHotels hi Sidney you might want to check out your bar standards….

Great to be back in Singapore mixing business with pleasure back at the Shangri La Hotel which never fails to impress. Hello to my lovely colleagues @WB_UK @jogideon @RealStephenKerr @tessamunt

#PostOfficeScandal #FUJITSU #Sorry #Apology #Ethics #Accountability #Redress #Honour Real apologies come with changed behaviour and action. Everything else is manipulation dressed as regret. 2 Years since being FORCED by the Court of Public Opinion to break their silence and apologise, still no sign of them honouring their 'moral obligation'. @fujitsu_uk @Fujitsu_Global @FujitsuAmerica @PostOffInquiry @hmtreasury @biztradegovuk @CommonsBTC @liambyrnemp @UKHouseofLords @HouseofCommons @CastletonLee @brianwhelton @mariaspears @Karlfl @mkiceburnmarko @CWUPostmaster @voiceofthePM @NigelRailton @nickwallis @TimBushLondon

I totally support this post. If someone wants her pronoun changed that’s their prerogative but it’s not fair to impose these decisions on us all. @sharrond62

I’m having a really great trip to Riga which has given me the chance to experience the amazing food, beer and zest for life. Can’t wait to come back I can recommend everything from culture to cuisine!

It’s odd isn’t it. “Affronts to public conscience”. 23rd of April 2021. 39 cases. Yet no one has been struck off, lost their job or been found accountable. People are still practicing. Ultimately someone called the shots on these cases. Should they still be practicing.?

#PostOfficeScandal #CorporateAccountability #Fujitsu #UKBusiness FUJITSU'S MASTERCLASS IN CRISIS MISMANAGEMENT: How to Dodge £1 Billion While Pocketing Government Millions Remember Fujitsu? The tech giant that swore blind their Horizon system was "infallible" while it systematically conspired to destroyed hundreds of innocent lives? Well, they're at it again. Here's the rap sheet: ⚖️29 known bugs. ⚖️Remote access capabilities they denied existed. ⚖️A £150,000 payment to Post Office for data breaches swept under the carpet. ⚖️Their own 'Litigation Support Unit' conspiring with Post Office to prosecute Sub-Postmasters with data they KNEW was unchecked and unreliable. The smoking gun? Anne Chambers was actually a Fujitsu Whistleblower. She flagged the dodgy data in a memo back in 2006. Corporate response? Cricket sounds 🦗🦗🦗 Fast forward to today's farce: Director Paul Patterson's hollow apologies in front of a Select Committee and at the Inquiry nearly 2 years ago. "We'll contribute to compensation," he promised. Amount paid to date? Zero. Zilch. Nada. Meanwhile, in a move that would make Yes Minister's Sir Humphrey blush, Fujitsu has discovered a loophole worthy of Olympic gymnastics. They're not bidding for "new" contracts (how noble!) – they're just quietly extending existing ones. The haul? A cool half-billion pounds over the coming years. Let's recap: Taxpayers cough up over £1 Billion for victims. Fujitsu trousers £500m+ in Government contracts. Fujitsu's contribution to the clean-up? See above re: zilch. They're "hiding behind the Public Inquiry" – that time-honoured British tradition of kicking Scandals into the long grass until everyone hopefully forgets. Except we already know what happened. Lord Justice Fraser spelled it out in 2020. The evidence is there in black and white. The real kicker? 5,000 UK jobs hang in the balance while Senior Fujitsu Executives play a three-card trick game with accountability. Time for the UK Government to show some backbone: No compensation, no contracts. Time for Fujitsu HQ in Tokyo to replace the Management of FSL. @fujitsu_uk @Fujitsu_Global @AmbJapanUK @JAPANinUK @postoffice @CastletonLee @Janetsk20073533 @LucieB1228922 @liambyrnemp @hmtreasury @darrenpjones @sumostatscom @sumo @japantimes

#PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #Fujitsu #PostOffice #HumanRightsAbuse #Compensation. Government accepts all but one of the 19 Recommendations made by the Public Inquiry in Vol 1 of Sir Wyn Wiliiams Report. Issues still remain with the Process. Not enough resource allocated to assess claims. Takes too long. Over-engineered and too many questions are asked. The BIG question for Victims - When will they all finally get paid ❓ @BBCEmmaSimpson @darrenpjones @Keir_Starmer @peterkyle @biztradegovuk @fujitsu_uk @Fujitsu_Global @AmbJapanUK @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @hudgellsol @NeilHudgell @tonydowney67 @CastletonLee @Janetsk20073533 @chrish9070 @andyverity @DanNeidle @TomWitherow @edwardhenry1 @liambyrnemp @CommonsBTC @TimBushLondon @VarchasPatel @Jusmasel2015

Rude not to join friends for a copa or two to celebrate friendship

For foodies it’s hard to beat El Cortes Inglés Marbella

#PostOfficeScandal This morning the government and more specifically the Department @biztradegovuk will respond to the @PostOffInquiry Recommendations from the 1st Report about Human Impact and Redress that was released in July. The deadline for that response set by Chair Sir Wyn Williams is the 10th October. We have to ask ourselves about the way we carry out inquiries in this country. Whether you look at the Post Office Scandal, whether it is the Infected Blood Scandal, Grenfell, Windrush, Hillsborough or Nuclear Test Veterans, each time an inquiry is held they go on for years and years. They obtain endless amounts of evidence and documents but lack the power to hold those responsible to account. Worse still we spend tens of millions of pounds at the taxpayers expense, appoint a highly respected High Court Judge or retired Judge and then when they make numerous recommendations based on the evidence they have collected over many years, the government can still choose to reject some or all of the recommendations. Sometimes they accept the recommendations with their own interpretation of what it is meant to do. If governments are serious about ending the culture of scandals, and wanting to genuinely compensate people, surely they would accept recommendations in full⁉️ I await with anticipation the governments response later this morning👀

South Yorkshire police told my mum that they would fine her every time I went missing… I was a little girl been sexually exploited and trafficked across England from the age of 11 …. Bundled in to men’s cars to be raped in numbers !!! I’ve got my childcare records and reading through them has been making me physically sick…. The intel they had on my perps and chose to do nothing !! My mum took 177 numbers out my phone when I was 12 years old majority of them been much much older she took it to the police and they told her it was against the men’s human rights if they took the numbers I was 12 !!! I’ve been sitting on this for a while thinking do I share now or wait until I can openly speak again but every time I read it I get more and more mad !!! Telling a parent who’s child is been so badly sexually exploited that if she keeps reporting me missing they will fine her !!! Rotherham police and council make me sick !!

#PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #FUJITSU #MrBatesvsThePostOffice Fujitsu's Deafening Silence: A Masterclass in How to Destroy a Brand The smouldering wreckage of the Post Office Scandal has rightfully consumed the reputations of many, but let us not mistake the silent partner in this National disgrace for an innocent bystander. While the @PostOffice has faced the full glare of public fury, @Fujitsu_Global , the architect of the catastrophically flawed Horizon IT system, has engaged in a masterclass of brand mismanagement and public relations failure that is as cynical as it is damaging. For years, as hundreds of Subpostmasters' lives were systematically dismantled by wrongful prosecutions, financial ruin, and public humiliation, @fujitsu_uk remained a ghost in the machine – the machine they built, knew was faulty, and from which they continued to profit handsomely. Their initial response to the growing chorus of concern was not one of Corporate responsibility, but of a calculated and deafening silence. This was not a passive oversight; it was an active strategy of evasion. While the @PostOffice, in its own egregious display of institutional arrogance, was belligerently prosecuting its own people, @fujitsu_uk , the technical expert in this partnership, chose to say nothing. They possessed the knowledge that their System was prone to bugs and glitches, a truth that would have exonerated the innocent, yet they stood by as lives were destroyed. This silence was not just a PR blunder; it was a moral vacuum. When the tide of justice finally and irrevocably turned, and the High Court exposed the "bugs, errors and defects" in the Horizon system, @fujitsu_uk 's reactive and piecemeal admissions began. The company that had been content to let others take the fall suddenly found its voice, but the words that emerged were hollow and self-serving. Expressions of "regret" and acknowledgements of a "moral obligation" to compensate victims rang hollow against the backdrop of years of complicity. This belated acceptance of responsibility is a textbook example of crisis management gone horribly wrong. A brand's reputation is built on trust, and Fujitsu's actions have demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of this principle. Instead of proactively addressing the flaws in their system, they chose a path of denial and obfuscation, a strategy that has now, inevitably, imploded. The impact on their brand has been as predictable as it is deserved. YouGov's BrandIndex, a measure of public perception, shows a dramatic plummet in Fujitsu's standing among the British public. From a position of relative anonymity, they have become synonymous with one of the most significant miscarriages of justice in UK history. This reputational nosedive is not merely a matter of public opinion; it has tangible consequences for their ability to secure future contracts and attract talent. And yet, in a galling testament to the inertia of Government Procurement, @fujitsu_uk has continued to be awarded lucrative public contracts. This outrageous situation lays bare a complete failure of accountability at all levels. A company at the heart of a National Scandal, a company that has demonstrated a shocking lack of corporate integrity, is still being rewarded with taxpayer money. Fujitsu's handling of the Post Office scandal will be studied for years to come as a case study in how not to manage a crisis. Their strategy of silence, denial, and delayed contrition has not only shattered their own brand, but has also prolonged the suffering of countless innocent people. What is required in this Country is a fundamental re-evaluation of how we hold Corporations to account. Fujitsu's name is now indelibly linked to the Post Office Scandal, a legacy of their own making and a stark warning to any company that believes silence is a viable substitute for integrity. @CastletonLee @Janetsk20073533 @darrenpjones @cabinetofficeuk @NigelRailton @liambyrnemp @biztradegovuk @CommonsBTC @CommonsBBCom @LordsCommsCom @HouseofCommons @Keir_Starmer @chiarasimon @TheJapanSociety @JAPANinUK @VarchasPatel @expo2025japan @Fujitsu_Defence @rbrooks45 @FujitsuAmerica @AmbJapanUK @chrish9070 @DanNeidle @PrivateEyeNews @ElCShaikh @nickwallis @Brand @Marketing @japan @edwardhenry1 @PostOffInquiry @voiceofthePM

Great to be back at Camuri one of Spains little gems on a quiet beach in the autumn sunshine with friends from the world of #whistleblowing

#PostOfficeScandal #Fujitsu #EmergencyAlerts A good question from over 2 years ago by ex MP @lucyallan The same question over @fujitsu_uk remain unanswered today. WHY? Perhaps the newly appointedSec of State for Business @peterkyle will act. @AmbJapanUK @Fujitsu_Global @gareththomasMP

My wonderful husband has cooked this delicious dinner: Moroccan spicy lamb and sweet and sour egg plant! Yum #Food

Don’t we all love a homemade Victoria sponge - all part of a lovely #AfternoonTea with friends in the garden

Who doesn’t love a millionaires shortbread in the garden for a sunny afternoon tea with girlfriends #AfternoonTea #Baking #Homemade