Initiated by Conservatives, run with by Labour and allowed to be rolled out despite huge concerns regarding reliability of an IT system plagued with flaws because no one wanted to upset Fujitsu or our relationship with Japan and way too much of tax payers money had already been spaffed on the unmitigated disaster to mothball it.
Sometimes prevention is better than cure. Desiderius Erasmus wasn’t wrong.
Sounds like a cock up by all concerned, across all parties. Labour should have been more robust in investigating the concerns and Conservative should have been more robust in dealing with the fallout. Instead, both allowed themselves to be lied to because quite frankly they didn’t want to face up to the problem or admit their shortcomings.
Impossible to ignore that this hadn’t become a political hot potato though, I mean, the Post Office was state owned.