I see that, following Ed Davey, former LibDem cabinet minister Vince Cable is pleading ignorance of the Post Office Horizon scandal. He claims the issue did not receive sufficient media coverage for it to register on the political agenda.
That is complete bollocks. Private Eye for one was banging the drum continuously for the sub-postmasters, and did a huge amount of investigative journalism throughout. We are talking here of an illustrious organ read by pretty much everyone in the English political establishment. Call it the Oh-fuck-am-I-in-it-this-week? effect.
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@Wen Computer Weekly did the technical investigations on the Horizon system. Private Eye followed up with a focus on the victims and their travails, and Post Office executives and their machinations.
@hesgen yep, I remember Hislop mentioning this in Private Eye
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-in-the-post
@hesgen Quite convenient for the Tories to have Davey as a scapegoat though…… 😏
@jaycee Lie with dogs, etc.
@hesgen to be fair, while Private Eye did a lot, the heavy lifting work was done by Compuer Weekly. Private Eye largely reused their work for a less specialised audience.