Although other organisations operating on behalf of the state are subject to the laws of the state, the Post Office is subject to its own specific set of laws. This begs the question whether oversight was an oversight, and in what kind of state is the state?
A senior Post Office manager without a leg left to stand on said, 'There is absolutely nothing to hide. The Post Office has been clear and open throughout, and if you don't believe me, just ask our Covert Team in Bracknell.
'Although, you can't actually ask them, of course. Partly because we've always wanted the Covert Team in Bracknell to remain covert, and partly because we openly called them covert. Which makes perfect nonsense, when you think about it.'
For the record, the senior manager was in post before the scandal, remained in post throughout the scandal, but will probably not be in post post-Post Office.
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Following the decision by Paula Vennels to hand her CBE in after a massive social media storm backed by an online petition signed by over one million outraged citizens, similar calls are being made for Sir Keir Starmer to hand back his Knighthood. 'This isn't politically motivated,' insisted one poster on Twitter whose account had been live for nearly three hours and had zero followers. Similar posts were made by accounts that appeared so new they gleamed. 'Nah, not political, he was the Director of Public Prosecutions when the Post Office made their private prosecutions,' insisted another.
Although the not politically-motivated claim appears to be gaining traction, there appears to be zero support to strip Sir David Calvert-Smith (DPP 1998 - 2003) of his Knighthood, nor for Lord Ken MacDonald (DPP 2003 - 2008) to be stripped of his Peerage. Additionally, Dame Alison Saunders, the funnier half of the French and Saunders double act (DPP 2013 - 2018) isn't being asked to hand her ermine robe back and nor is Sir Max (Harry) Hill (DPP 2018 - 2023 being asked to hand his Knighthood back (but is frequently asked to refrain from his various TV programmes such as Harry Hill's TV burp).
A government spokesman said the calls for stripping the former DPP of his Knighthood wasn't political and explained the absence of calls for any of the other four DPPs that span the Horizon debacle timeline on the simple fact that none of the other DPPs had, to their knowledge, butchered puppies or personally freed mass murderers. 'If he will go around jailing innocent people while providing his skills for free for people anyone can see are guilty, then he deserves everything the public can be made to throw at him,' said the spokesman.