I am already consider cynical by many, but reading about the scandal constantly reminds me how naive I am. Just how low can government and politicians get.
I think it would leave me furious for weeks and push me into a depression rut.
I'm trying to take the whole debacle as long term inspiration to be excellent at what I do - it's tough to stay positive when so many people involved (Fujitsu, PO upper management, the original prosecution) seem entirely morally bereft, with little chance of consequence.
When you have such a widespread and ongoing problem it becomes clear that such a large proportion of postmasters can't be criminals. Computer bugs are well known. Eventually it is going to come out that the computer is wrong. Why double-down? The earlier you admit a mistake and apologize the lower the impact and the less anyone cares. They had a built-in scapegoat that everyone understands and accepts: the vendor's software had bugs! We have daily meetings to yell at them to fix the bugs we promise and we will fix the problems ASAP.
Or do the sneaky thing and fix the issues, stop prosecuting postmasters, and ignore the ones you prosecuted by mistake. Cynical, cruel, and immoral... but contains the damage.
Instead the UK Postoffice seems to have just let the problems continue while simultaneously allowing prosecutions to go ahead knowing they were faulty. Literally the worst of all worlds: ongoing accumulation of liability, now with provable malice!
I heard some convictions of innocent people have been overturned, or are in the process of. But new convictions of the actually guilty... no news about any such thing. Maybe I'm just uninformed.
Fair enough. The investigation is still ongoing but as of now I don't think anyone who knew (or should have known) has been punished. The UK public are the ones on the hook for recompense.
As low as it takes for a profit!