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  • One thing about the show that I’ve been wondering about is the role in the saga of Angela Van Den Bogerd. She’s portrayed in the drama as a significant force in the cover up, but reading other reports, she doesn’t seem to be considered a major character in the story.
    Was she significantly to blame? Is she a convenient patsy? I don’t know enough about the case to say, but I did feel like she was portrayed almost like a cartoon villain. 
  • One thing about the show that I’ve been wondering about is the role in the saga of Angela Van Den Bogerd. She’s portrayed in the drama as a significant force in the cover up, but reading other reports, she doesn’t seem to be considered a major character in the story.
    Was she significantly to blame? Is she a convenient patsy? I don’t know enough about the case to say, but I did feel like she was portrayed almost like a cartoon villain. 
    She did appear before a Commons Select Committee, along with Paula Vennells in 2015, part of that was shown in the ITV drama.
  • She did appear before a Commons Select Committee, along with Paula Vennells in 2015, part of that was shown in the ITV drama.
    Yeah I did see that, but in the drama, her character was portrayed as a sort of bullying enforcer. Some might say a character not unlike a recently departed CAFC employee who resembles a saggy ballbag. Allegedly.

    I’m just interested in whether that portrayal is representative of the truth.
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  • With contracts being awarded to organisations who are fronted/ run by Tories/members of families of Tory MPs/ Tory donors, this smacks of a similar thing as the PPE and associated Covid scandals.

    This has been and continues to be happening right under our very noses, with people like Michelle Mone and Dido Harding ending up with gongs and enoblement, despite shady dealings, waste of tax payers money, and enrichment of themselves and their families at tax payers expense.

    I see Paula Vennells appears to have been hiding in plain sight (a la Savile) as an Anglican priest since 2006 and serving, until 2021, as a member of the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group. Someone like that couldn’t possibly have been lying about innocent people, now could they?
    This a thousand times, corruption must be rooted out and stopped.

  • Like you I have been on this story for some time and I can't even watch the drama at the moment and the excellent Toby Jones.
    I will soon. 
    I found it heartbreaking that so many people went to prison and had their lives wrecked and many died with a strain on their character.
    Ed Davey has questions to answer as he was in the coalition at the time and just accepted that the high number of postmasters were thieves; his remit was the Post office.

    It should go above 1 million signatures today or tomorrow.

    Snap! I've got all 4 episodes recorded and like you, can't bring myself to watch them as I know they are just going to make me so angry.
  • I think everyone should watch it, it made me very angry and the more that people realise what has been going on the better. 

    We need maximum pressure from everyone, to ensure that all involved in the scandal and cover-up are properly punished.  I used to believe that this was a fair and just country, I know now that is far from being true.
  • Another thing - and sorry, this is just about the show - it’s not a huge deal or even to do with the story, but I just thought about it - did anyone else find Nadhim Zahawi playing himself a bit jarring? I just didn’t see the need for it and it felt like a crass bit of PR. Nobody else played themself, why just him?
    Trying to show he’s the good guy…
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  • Trying to show he’s the good guy…

    I imagine the production company must have approached him and not the other way around and also his words are in the public record of the committee?
  • I agree, but the Tories have been in power for 13 years and have done very little to punish those responsible and they are still awarding contracts to Fujitsu who do have links with Tories.
    This debacle wasn't just on there watch though albeit I agree with your point. 
  • cafc999 said:
    This debacle wasn't just on there watch though albeit I agree with your point. 
    The link I provided earlier showed Computer Weekly got involved in 2009, so presumably there wasn't widespread knowledge of the scandal before that date.
  • The link I provided earlier showed Computer Weekly got involved in 2009, so presumably there wasn't widespread knowledge of the scandal before that date.
    Agreed, but there was enough exposure for successive governments to be aware. 

  • I imagine the production company must have approached him and not the other way around and also his words are in the public record of the committee?
    Hansard probably.
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