Payback time
MILLIONS, including Rishi Sunak, want disgraced Post Office chief Paula Vennells stripped of her CBE. Why are we waiting?
Whitehall’s Forfeiture Committee can take honours from anyone bringing the system into disrepute.
Over a million Brits want disgraced Post Office chief Paula Vennells stripped of her CBE[/caption]
Why isn’t it sitting already?
The boss who presided over the greatest injustice in UK history must be an open and shut case.
But Vennells isn’t by any stretch the only guilty party.
Aside from other executives at the Post Office or Fujitsu, which designed the dodgy IT system, how about Sir Ed Davey?
The sanctimonious Lib Dem leader glibly demands resignations from anyone whose competence he disapproves of.
Why hasn’t he quit after ineptly turning a deaf ear to whistleblower Alan Bates?
And what of Keir Starmer, CPS head when the Post Office sent so many innocent staff to jail?
The prosecutions weren’t his . . . but didn’t he consider them odd?
Why didn’t he step in?
But resignations and loss of honours still won’t mean justice.
That will take, for starters, the blanket quashing of all convictions in this grotesque scandal.
Legislate for that, PM. Post haste.
Killers’ brief
KEIR Starmer boasts he stood up for the most vulnerable as a human rights lawyer.
Except one of these supposedly desperate souls buried his toddler stepson alive.
Another axed and strangled his lover to death in front of her kids.
Another butchered his girlfriend and baby.
Vicious murderers, all rescued by Starmer from the death penalty abroad.
He chose to champion their cause.
For free.
And not only were evil criminals reprieved, some were released.
Many oppose the death penalty in the UK.
The Sun does.
There is a difference between that and flying to Africa or the Caribbean to get baby-killers off the hook.
Now itching to be PM, Starmer poses as tough on crime.
He makes out he was the villains’ nightmare at the CPS.
And he will argue that, before that, his was a principled mission to end the death penalty worldwide. Fine.
Let voters discern the real Starmer: Crime-fighting hardman? Or left-wing lawyer determined to spare heinous monsters from the justice many will think they deserved?
Cost of safety
TOO many women remain trapped with abusive partners for lack of money to escape.
Now they can get up to £2,500 from a £2million Home Office fund to buy essentials for them or their kids, or maybe put a deposit on a flat.
We are proud that our campaign with Women’s Aid made it possible.
The victory, though, is for hundreds of survivors who’ll now be able to afford new lives in safety.
