Mr Bates vs The Post Office

[SydneyBridge]

Counsel should tell him to refer to AB as Sir Alan....

[vaud]

What a vile human being.

[LimmerickLad]

vaud said:

What a vile human being.

Ain't he just.

[balise]

Managed to shut him up with a really good question. Didn't know where to go.

[Bonefish Blues]

Piece of work, isn't he.

[Short Grain]

Developed a dislike for him within minutes. He's not dissuaded me so far, ahole! He's unwilling to accept any criticism of Horizon or POL!

[SydneyBridge]

He should be asked 'you could and should have helped some of your members and avoided them going to prison, how do you feel about that?'

[simonrockman]

His response is that the NFSP was "for the many not the few.". The few could be thrown under the bus for the good of the union.

[Short Grain]

He's gonna repeat the 'Party Line' ad infinitum! Can't accept that his view just may be wrong. If I was a sub postmaster in the audience, I'd be thrown out for giving him my opinion of him!

[Bonefish Blues]

simonrockman said:

His response is that the NFSP was "for the many not the few.". The few could be thrown under the bus for the good of the union.

Especially as the PO funds the NFSP and you don't bite the hand that feeds you...

[CoolC]

Only caught the last 30 minutes or so of this morning's session.

What an obnoxious sod this chap is. Is he in effect the boss of the chap that was on yesterday?

[Maxdecel]

SydneyBridge said:

He should be asked 'you could and should have helped some of your members and avoided them going to prison, how do you feel about that?'

Judging by that performance I reckon it would be "Collateral damage, wasn't that many anyway the system is on the whole robust and performs well "
Perfect application of "I'm all right Jack"

[Aphrabehn]

Poundshop George Galloway

[RichB]

simon_harris said:

His main objective seems to have been to line his own pockets - didn't really care where the money came from.

That's what all union officials do. Big pigs and little pigs remember...

[TwinKam]

CoolC said:

Only caught the last 30 minutes or so of this morning's session.

What an obnoxious sod this chap is. Is he in effect the boss of the chap that was on yesterday?

No, Tony Kearns is/was a very big important little man in the Communication Workers' Union. But clearly both emerged from the same slime.

[Short Grain]

RichB said:

That's what all union officials do. Big pigs and little pigs remember...

Yep, had direct experience of exactly that years ago! This guy is a piglet trying to be a big pig, or a bore?

[eliot]

It's unbelievable that this bloke is supposed to represent the sub-postmaters - he sounds like an official post-office PR spokesperson, even Vennels et-al are no longer waffling on about how robust horizon is.

[Blib]

He doesn't even leave a space in his emails between a comma and the following word.

The imbecile.

[Bonefish Blues]

Taken for the utter fool he so obviously is by the PO. Plumped up, self-important, divvying up inside info for pats on the head.

[outnumbered]

At least he's keen to talk, and he seems to be sticking robustly to his view at the time rather than pretending he can't remember anything, unpopular though that view may be.