[News] Post Office Scandal -

[Thunder Bolt]

If (you or) I took the PO CEO role, I'd like to think that on the to-do list would be for my own knowledge at the very least, to find out the full background, overturn stones, take a fresh unbiased look, to see if we have a commercial claim against Fujitsu. Also, once known that I must sit in front of a legal grilling, to prepare in depth.

I want to see Michael Keegan (husband of minister Gillian Keegan) being questioned.

Michael Keegan, former Fujitsu UK chief executive and husband of the current education secretary Gillian Keegan, was appointed to a role in the Cabinet Office in September 2019. The move came little more than a year after he left his role as European head of the Japanese IT company. Keegan joined Fujitsu in March 2006 as the director of a business unit responsible for working on the UK government’s national identity scheme. He rose through the organisation in roles primarily focused on public sector contracts.

UK officials tried to block Fujitsu from government contracts in 2010s

‘Project Sushi’ failed to remove Japanese software company despite ‘woeful’ performance

www.ft.com

 

[drew]

Any of them really. What was apparent is that neither of them had a clue what had gone on in the past (they have both been in post since 2019) and had made little effort to try to find out. There were some interesting and searching questions asked that made them both look like fools. But highlighting an MP mentioning Paw Patrol is much more important to the readers of the Independent and the twitterverse it would seem.

I think it's the practice of 'plausible deniability'.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Peter Sewell doesn't recall anything, how surprising.

 

[jcdenton08]

Peter Sewell doesn't recall anything, how surprising.

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[KZNSeagull]

I thought the same, they’ve had 4 plus years to find out to the best they can internally exactly what happened, who knew what, any lies they were spun by Fujitsu.

Apparently the same Fujitsu guy is in front of the Inquiry today, so I hope he has done some homework as "I don't know" is not going to cut it.

 

[Weststander]

Peter Sewell doesn't recall anything, how surprising.

It’s amazing how many ‘top business brains’ lack a memory.

 

[Talby]

It’s amazing how many ‘top business brains’ lack a memory.

No brain, no conscience either.

 

[Weststander]

No brain, no conscience either.

They all come across as humble rabbit-in-the-headlights types.

Masking, imho, belligerence and bullying traits over the last 10 to 25 years.

 

[KZNSeagull]

They all come across as humble rabbit-in-the-headlights types.

Masking, imho, belligerence and bullying traits over the last 10 to 25 years.

This bloke was originally a Salesman so his answers to bug fixes are going to be interesting.
The first bug highlighted was not fixed for 5.5 years!

 

[KZNSeagull]

That last bug they talked about, it took them 2 months to find the actual problem. Any system that takes that long to find the issue is clearly far too complicated or there was a massive issue with prioritisation of bug fixes.

 

[Talby]

They all come across as humble rabbit-in-the-headlights types.

Masking, imho, belligerence and bullying traits over the last 10 to 25 years.

Totally. I don’t think there can be any doubt about that. They completely shat on people and ruined them.

 

[ROSM]

The claim from fujitsu that the PO amended witness statements from the tech co to remove references to known bugs is startling. It doesnt absolve fujitsu but it pins more blame on PO

 

[Seagull58]

The claim from fujitsu that the PO amended witness statements from the tech co to remove references to known bugs is startling. It doesnt absolve fujitsu but it pins more blame on PO

Criminal behaviour if they are subsequently presented in court? Perverting the course of justice?

 

[rippleman]

Criminal behaviour if they are subsequently presented in court? Perverting the course of justice?

Same as all those coppers at Hillsborough who "revised" their statements and lied on oath. Mind you, every last one of them got away with it.

 

[GT49er]

Criminal behaviour if they are subsequently presented in court? Perverting the course of justice?

Of course it's criminal; it's clearly perverting the course of justice. I suspect we will find though, that the great and the good will persuade the CPS that it is not in the public interest to prosecute fellow members of the great and good who have moved on to other jobs which are driving the economy forward (and earning them the sort of money to which they are rightly accustomed).

Just guessing, of course.

 

[Weststander]

Same as all those coppers at Hillsborough who "revised" their statements and lied on oath. Mind you, every last one of them got away with it.

Hopefully laws have been tightened since then.

 

[clapham_gull]

One for the nerds. This is buried on a report and is a code extract from part of the system.

Although the code "works", any idea what the developer could have done instead ?

https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/FUJ00080690%20Report%20on%20the%20EPOSS%20PinICL%20Task%20Force%2014052001.pdf

 

[Brovion]

One for the nerds. This is buried on a report and is a code extract from part of the system.

View attachment 173102

Although the code "works", any idea what the developer could have done instead ?

https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/FUJ00080690%20Report%20on%20the%20EPOSS%20PinICL%20Task%20Force%2014052001.pdf

Multiply by -1?

 

[Badger]

One for the nerds. This is buried on a report and is a code extract from part of the system.

View attachment 173102

Although the code "works", any idea what the developer could have done instead ?

https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/FUJ00080690%20Report%20on%20the%20EPOSS%20PinICL%20Task%20Force%2014052001.pdf

Wow, that's a hilariously convoluted way of doing it. Although it doesn't surprise me, given some of the answers I've seen for simple coding problems when I've been interviewing developers.