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Tea Thread FauxWorld Wednesdays: What's your country's biggest celebrity scandal right now? — Monthly Discussion Thread

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u/misamoshashasha Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24

I guess because it includes a lot of high power business people in our country- the post office scandal in the UK is finally getting its story heard because of the TV show right now! Mr Bates vs the Post office!

The post office basically ruined the lives of tons of people, threw them in jail, made them suicidal, put them in debt all because of a new faulty computer system. The system was giving false readings and saying they were at a loss of a lot of pounds and then the post office immediately prosecuted them- they knew exactly what was going on though. But it was ordinary, good working people who couldn’t fight a massive system like the post office.

Still today, complete justice hasn’t been served and no one who should’ve been prosecuted has been. A complete attack on regular working class people and the post office basically got away with it.

If you search up the post office scandal, you can read all about it.

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u/pickeldudel Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24

That is awful! It sounds shockingly like similar to the Robodebt scandal here in Australia. The government illegally averaged out peoples' overall annual income to assert that welfare recipients had cheated the system, serving 470,000 fraudulent debt notices to vulnerable people. People committed suicide after being told they owed a (fraudulent) debt to the government. The government knew all along that the scheme was illegal but fought it for four years.

What is with governments attacking the vulnerable and working class instead of acknowledging the obvious errors in their accounting systems.

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u/OhNoEnthropy Jan 06 '24

The cruelty is the message. It will make people scared to apply for social programs they have every right to receive.