...over the The Post Office scandal (and Jess Philips enjoys every second of it)
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@WilberforceWooster-uo2bl3 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is a national treasure. He's one of the few people willing to hold the corrupt to account.
@terryboland38163 ай бұрын
No, he's a hypocrite who criticise others but suppresses examination of his own behaviour. Morons like him because he reads out jokes on television.
@johnmountainstone11773 ай бұрын
No he is not. He just happens to be on the righteous side this one time.
@mikeross43 ай бұрын
@@johnmountainstone1177 Yes he is!
@sanidadeelogica49793 ай бұрын
@@johnmountainstone1177he’s literally made his whole career about highlighting corruption. I guess you’ve never read Private Eye
@swanronson1733 ай бұрын
How many other journalists do we see who have the grasp of the facts and no reluctance to tear into politicians that Mr Hislop has? Many journalists and interviewers will only push it so far and often let the politicians BS slide for fear of being blacklisted or because they don't know they're being fobbed off. How much better it would be if they all took Ian's approach.
@kylewhittle65653 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop has been on top form for DECADES! Private eye broke this story years ago when no else cared. He is a one man band who is always questioning power structures in society (monarchy, government, judges, celebrities, religions) God bless him! 🖤 🇬🇧
@Toronto_James3 ай бұрын
Only reason he’s not been knighted is because of how much he’s bashed Brenda & the rest of the royals over the years.
@auto983 ай бұрын
Not certain he'd accept one tbh
@liss-70673 ай бұрын
@@Toronto_Jameswhat I love is he goes for everyone when it's justified. He says he's pro constitutional monarchy, but he can still call it out and puncture it. Private Eye is perfect because it's cynicism striving for kindness and lambasting everything on the way.
@EdwardLindon3 ай бұрын
PE didn't break the story, but they did run it for years.
@CMBell19853 ай бұрын
@@EdwardLindonHislop has spoke in glowing terms of the investigative reporters who ferretted out these issues. He gives them absolute credit and was privileged to give them a platform and defend the story in court. Skin must be pretty tough with all the cases hes had to fight
@nickdryad3 ай бұрын
“You can’t just talk nonsense and not be interrupted.” Ian is a fearless champion. If only someone said that to Boris Johnson more often.
@TheOriginalJezАй бұрын
I mean, both Ian and Paul did, repeatedly, on HIGNFY. Unfortunately that was clearly not a big enough warning sign to stop him getting elected...
@ianmackenzie27913 ай бұрын
Listening to Ian Hislop always goes a long way to restoring my faith in human nature. Long may he continue!
@bigbabatunde12183 ай бұрын
He was always a good source of information on Have I Got New For You, information that you wouldn't hear anyone else talk about on TV for 'legal reasons' and career advancement reasons. Hislop has been laughing in the face of lawyers and judges with their vested interests for decades.
@painstruck013 ай бұрын
PROGRAMME'S OVER!!!!
@quicksesh3 ай бұрын
I have been reading Private Eye for years and this scandalous story has been a regular appearance, he and the team on proper journalists in the Private Eye should all be lauded for their tenacious pursuit of this story, it is a crying shame that it had to take a TV drama and an election year to move this to the point that those that were wronged are restituted - long live Ian and his team.
@bigbabatunde12183 ай бұрын
@@painstruck01 The Post Office and Horizon scandal isn't though.
@kevteop2 ай бұрын
Sadly Ian can't be this voice forever and I'm not sure who we've got to take his place when he decides to retire. I hope he knows who his successor is because I don't.
@lunapachamama9153 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is 100% right. Gets my vote. “Classic corporate nonsense” on Fujitsu’s part. It’s time for truth, justice and humanity. Enough of this pernicious and fraudulent activity.
@pipster18913 ай бұрын
At the same time as Hislop and _Private Eye_ were brilliantly covering and campaigning the Post Office scandal, he and it were attacking Julian Assange and taking part in the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn. I haven't heard Hislop apologising for himself deliberately lying about Corbyn.
@richardfraser70243 ай бұрын
Blame the successive governments!
@marshyman663 ай бұрын
And what part of corporate nonsense did Fujitsu did commit. Sounds like the the customer did not like the answers they were getting after being warned of the limitations and potential errors.
@marshyman663 ай бұрын
@@flateric1594 if you can point where this was stated n court or the enquiry and not a tv drama. In most large scale systems acces to the hw and sw is common. Log files are created so I am not sure why access would have been denied and why lie about it.
@cb3613 ай бұрын
The only people I would vote for would never go into politics in the first place.
@paulgibbons61703 ай бұрын
Mr Berry tried to laugh his way through this and he just proved that he's just another Tory about to be out of a job. Well done Ian!
@boswellwhanau3 ай бұрын
Do you understand this is a problem created by Labour? 😂😂
@digidol523 ай бұрын
@@boswellwhanau And the Tories have had no time to fix the problem? They ignored it.
@franticpanic3 ай бұрын
. Do you understand entirely perpetuated by tories
@teesman613 ай бұрын
Erm, no it wasn't, it was the post office paving the way for privatisation and all that lovely money. The whole debacle was perpetuated with full tory backing.
@Geffo5553 ай бұрын
@@boswellwhanau The Labour government gave Fujitsu the contract, but you can hardly blame Labour for the system's flaws. There should be a full inquiry though.
@teb__3 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is quickly becoming a hero of our age. A man of principle and justice. I have so much respect for him.
@James27Simko3 ай бұрын
quickly? this isnt new for him hahahaha. hes a legend and not a recent one at that.
@sunnytimes_3 ай бұрын
Yep he already was... and unfortunately I don't it helps him or his team being proven correct decade's later. Too much damage has already been done and I'm sure it just makes him even more angry
@James27Simko3 ай бұрын
@@sunnytimes_ fuel for the fire my friend, fuel for the fire.
@skygod10673 ай бұрын
He has been for a long time
@aceplatini8593 ай бұрын
he's an upperclass snobby git. some hero.
@hamishpaterson24133 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is 100% right, 100%! The government, The Post Office and Fujitsu should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done.
@jackywhite8803 ай бұрын
None of those concerned actually carry the shame gene. It's either absent at birth, or it's trained out of them at Eton.
@kanedNunable3 ай бұрын
@@jackywhite880 'ethics/morals are for the poors'
@ianswan12833 ай бұрын
Absolutely
@noramartin963 ай бұрын
Ashamed ? They should be jailed for life. Yes Hislop is correct as always they robbed these people.
@ianswan12833 ай бұрын
@@noramartin96 absolutely
@gijgij45413 ай бұрын
When Ian's being funny he's very very good: when he's angry, he's even better.
@suestone27943 ай бұрын
100%👏👏👏
@villeporttila51613 ай бұрын
I've never seen him rage so hard. It's quite impressive actually
@robertnapier6243 ай бұрын
The world needs more Ian hislops. He can sense when a politician talks crap even before they’ve spoken a word. God bless Ian Hislop.
@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne3 ай бұрын
Oh come on...anybody with a modicum of intelligence knows when an MP is talking crap: It's when they open their mouths and begin to speak. With the honourable exception of Andrew Bridgen.
@Kingcarparpeggio3 ай бұрын
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne : Andrew Bridgen !!!😂😂😂😂…….Alex Belfield’s fanboy 😂😂😂😂
@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne3 ай бұрын
Only in your sad world@@Kingcarparpeggio
@Kingcarparpeggio3 ай бұрын
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 😱😭😂😂😂
@ChrisSmith-mu1we3 ай бұрын
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne Soon to be ex-MP.🎉
@ChristyOFaghan3 ай бұрын
Hislop with all the fury of a fiery young radical, but with 40-odd years of experience in dealing with such fraudsters is positions of power - superb.
@Rasscasse3 ай бұрын
👌 It’s a wonderful combination
@jessiepooch3 ай бұрын
Well said.
@willyum39203 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is an absolute giant of a man in this country. I am a grateful subscriber to Private Eye and I couldn't agree with Ian more.
@XelaMa3 ай бұрын
Line of the century " You can't just keep talking nonsense and not be interrupted"!!! I LOVE MR.HISLOP!!! ❤❤❤
@Rasscasse2 ай бұрын
Seconded 👍
@dizwell3 ай бұрын
Peston would have done better to shut up and listen to Hislop. But his grandstanding self-importance wouldn't let him do that. Shame.
@Qwyte3 ай бұрын
Everyone always says David Attenborough, Stephen fry etc. are British icons who will be missed dearly. But for me, it's Ian Hislop. He's does so much for British politics & cuts right to the cores of issues in a funny, digestible way. I've watched him on hignfy since I was a child. When he goes, British politics punditry will not be the same. A true British icon
@hydroknight013 ай бұрын
When Hislop goes, the British Establishment will collectively breathe a sigh of unspeakable relief, not only because they'll no-longer have to worry about him finding out about the mass-graveyards in their closets, but also because there's no upcoming journalist of similar calibre or integrity for him to hand the torch over to. The world will suffer a considerable loss, come that day.
@johnmightymole22843 ай бұрын
Stephen Fry is a likeable royal lacky.
@chrisburn71783 ай бұрын
Quite right. Hislop is the Christopher Hitchens of the 21st century. It seems the universe is duty-bound to provide at least one foil to the establishment line in every age, Hislop is ours. An absolute giant.
@SeanONilbud3 ай бұрын
@@chrisburn7178 Hitchen was a right wing reactionary drunk. A fatter Russell Brand. His pro waterboarding derp was typical. Just because he was an atheist excuses nothing.
@winstonwolf57063 ай бұрын
He cuts right to the core of issues if you're a centre left Liberal.
@markellis7963 ай бұрын
Robert Peston continually denied Ian an opportunity to articulate his points, while trying to make fun the whole situation, well done Ian.
@baoboumusic3 ай бұрын
Yeah Peston was completely useless and utterly embarrassed himself. What was he trying to do there?
@ceeabee3 ай бұрын
We must have been watching different clips. Funny how our Political leanings can influence what we actually see and hear isn't it.
@baoboumusic3 ай бұрын
@@ceeabee Look, if I didn't know the background, I'd think Hislop incredibly rude and aggressive towards a fellow guest. But I do know the background, and so does Peston, and if he wasn't ready for the righteous indignation of Ian (and right he is), then I don't know what he was doing. It's also interesting you somehow relate this to politics.Ian Hislop doesn't play politics; he has been invested in this dossier for 15 years and has continuously fought for the victims in the story. He doesn't detest Berry for being a Tory, he detests him for being useless and for downplaying the effect this had and still has on people. The guilty have to be brought to trial, and that includes the politicians that enabled it while knowing better.
@TheOwlsarewatching6063 ай бұрын
Peston is a twerp. on a good salary
@jujutrini84123 ай бұрын
@@ceeabeeIs there a particular political party that is at odds with Ian Hislop’s opinion on this whole Post Office affair?
@larryfroot3 ай бұрын
Ian, via Private Eye, has been chasing this story for nearly 20 years. No wonder you can hear the anger in his voice.
@stephencampbell21153 ай бұрын
They have done the same with the tainted blood scandal,The fall out from COVID,And right at the moment the Tories shady dealings with the new Teeside Freeport.
@francisfox91713 ай бұрын
As a Private Eye subscriber for 38 years I expect nothing less from Ian. And that it was "Sir" Jake on the receiving end was particularly gratifying, a man holding one of the least deserved Knighthoods in a party crammed full of them, awarded simply for being a chum of Boris Johnson.
@mikethebloodthirsty3 ай бұрын
I stopped buying the Private Eye when they called anyone who disagreed with a lot of what was happening during the pandemic as a loony conspiracy theorist... Thats literally ANYONE who veered slightly off the narrative.
@martinwoollett84683 ай бұрын
and they were right. @@mikethebloodthirsty
@JohnSmall3143 ай бұрын
@@mikethebloodthirsty Private Eye has been proved right. All the anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people were loony conspiracy theorists. If Private Eye says something is BS then it very probably is BS
@curmudgeon19333 ай бұрын
@@mikethebloodthirsty. So you stopped buying Private Eye when their assessment of the Covid situation differed from yours? About the same time you fell hook, line and sinker for the avalanche of loony conspiracy theories that appeared, then?
@treeaboo3 ай бұрын
@@mikethebloodthirsty Have you possibly considered that maybe you were the one in the wrong?
@steve-on7kl3 ай бұрын
Oh I love Ian. He's so passionate and isn't afraid to show it. Not intimidated by anyone! Really says it how it is. I wish there were more people holding this corrupt Tory government to account!
@michaelkneale38253 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is brilliant. We need more like him.
@JohnnyBouchier3 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop once again tells it like it is. Thank you to Private Eye for all their hard work over many years.
@borismuller863 ай бұрын
I far prefer paying my subscription than my license fee 😉
@danielbrewster53623 ай бұрын
I think Private Eye should be in the same section as the daily newspapers. I do sometimes move it there when I get the chance.
@mansonfortyfour3 ай бұрын
You see Ian argue and put his point across very well often BUT you don't ever really see him angry. In this clip i get the felling there is real anger there!!
@clarkpatient79503 ай бұрын
Understandably too! In fact, is it even possible to talk to a Tory anymore without finding yourself in anger & despair?
@CB-xr1eg3 ай бұрын
True, but there's still a smile on his face. A smiling assassin.
@Law_Abiding_Citizen_ok3 ай бұрын
He’s passionate when he gets his teeth into something not angry👍
@jeffsimon95943 ай бұрын
All leftists are permanently angry people
@KebabMusicLtd3 ай бұрын
That's because his magazine (Private Eye) has been following this issue for over 10 years now and are far more clued up about what went wrong than some two-bit nobody who simply sits in a tv studio and repeatedly reads from the script.
@garrywilling37113 ай бұрын
First time I've ever seen Jess Philips so quiet, she knew to just sit back and let Hislop go to town on the Conservatives
@rupertwinston-hayes37903 ай бұрын
Didn't like her smirking...
@Rasscasse3 ай бұрын
To be honest, I was smirking too at Ians demolition of the puffed up popinjay that is Jake Berry
@tomben61803 ай бұрын
Labour were also to blame but Hislop is a Blair man
@johnwright78952 ай бұрын
She is not on the same level.
@jamescrossland96122 ай бұрын
Never forget that Hislop is a Blair man and that the Blair government kicked all this off. Easy to cry, Tories at fault when they have been left holding the parcel when the music stopped.
@DomenBremecXCVI3 ай бұрын
As a non-brit who never stepped foot on your island, I'm so happy for you to have Ian. He's gold and should serve as an example for any and all journalists in the world, not just in the world of politics. We need more Ians.
@chrisab663 ай бұрын
There are people who should be sitting in a jail cell and it's not the postmasters!!
@althomas31683 ай бұрын
Agree.. Tony Blair is one.
@colloquialsoliloquy63913 ай бұрын
@@althomas3168Boris Johnson too.
@beniteztheconman3 ай бұрын
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 Johnson for treason...yes.
@colloquialsoliloquy63913 ай бұрын
@@beniteztheconman Messi is still the 🐐
@beniteztheconman3 ай бұрын
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 nowhere near the top 20
@gillie-monger33943 ай бұрын
Just because the woman "hands back her CBE" does NOT remove her from that honour until it is 'quashed' by the Government AND withdrawn by the King! The criminal is STILL a CBE.
@borismuller863 ай бұрын
She’s just trying to avoid having to hand back the money. That’s what she really cares about.
@andymerrett3 ай бұрын
@@borismuller86 yep, apologies and bits of metal mean nothing of any actual value to the victims. Sadly, some of the victims are no longer with us because the stress killed them.
@guickdotto45523 ай бұрын
Who cares about the gong? She can keep it for all its worth. The honours system is utterly discredited. The Tory politician on the couch has a knighthood for God's sake. A flipping knighthood!
@hydroknight013 ай бұрын
I don't believe for a second that she has actually handed it back. I reckon she's sitting on it and hoping the fuss will go away, and the media will rally around her claiming she's being bullied, simply because she SAYS she's handed it back, like that's somehow enough to make good.
@twattyfuckface3 ай бұрын
Wonder what the other inmates will make of that....
@jan-kjetiljess5033 ай бұрын
Ian is the world’s most silk gloved brawler. I love that he rants for two minutes then says ‘I’m gonna rant now’. One of my greatest heroes and a great reminder that ‘they’re’ not ‘all the same’ whenever someone talks about‘mainstream media’.
@Petelmrg3 ай бұрын
Not very often you see Jess Phillips sitting back munching the popcorn - I think she enjoyed that.
@itstherevolution3 ай бұрын
😂😂Ian is ruthless, and thank God!
@colinmcmb3 ай бұрын
Go for it Ian. Such a pleasure to see such passion. If only more people were so riled up.
@a2619433 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is exceptional. True hero. Whenever I hear him speak I sit up and listen.
@AngryAnt03 ай бұрын
As someone slightly involved in this (family member was in a post office until 2004ish), I'm so thankful for people like Ian Hislop and their consistant involvement in this case. Personally I don't blame Ed Davey compared to all the other people who lied through their teeth and are trying to pin the blame on one single person. They *knew* the system didn't work and yet rolled it out anyway. World needs more people like Ian Hislop especially when he's so animated because he is utterly correct in every single way.
@richardpowell18843 ай бұрын
"SIR" Jake Berry who has achieved exactly nothing as a tory MP, but still got a knighthood. Brexit Britain in a nutshell.
@charlielynes3 ай бұрын
A Completely Uncaring Narcissistic Tory, if you will. 🤔
@anthonyrybicki10003 ай бұрын
He was a talisman for Northern redwall seats.Absolutely useless for the revival of the North but headbutts like 30p Lee Anderson does in the cause of big capitalism and social division. Sad that men like him get elected and then knighted.
@MrMmnngghh3 ай бұрын
The medals are given to help as a jail time buffer
@stephenreeds36323 ай бұрын
After making that bloody idiot Botham a Lord, anything is possible.
@fsp-3 ай бұрын
What has it got to do with Brexit?
@peterdunn86033 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is like a terrier with a rat once he gets hold he just keeps shaking it, GREAT MAN.
@jeffsimon95943 ай бұрын
Face is more like a pug
@MrSham613 ай бұрын
Regardless, I'll settle for his intellect rather than yours treacle😚 @@jeffsimon9594
@RugbyPass813 ай бұрын
@@jeffsimon9594All right wingers are permanently angry little people
@chrisburn71783 ай бұрын
Hislop's genuine almost unfettered apoplexy is wonderful to behold. You just wish they didn't have a time limit; I'd listen to him take the issue apart for hours. A giant of our time.
@leighedwards3 ай бұрын
The Post Office should have the right to directly prosecute and investigate taken away - they were judge, jury and executioner and totally biased and even paid bonuses to the psychopathic investigators for chasing down innocent people and ignoring the errors in the Horizon system.
@hydroknight013 ай бұрын
The PO 'investigators' - read: paid thugs - were handed pre-formed conclusions by their bosses and told to come to those conclusions, irrespective of evidence to the contrary, by any means necessary. They were told to secure convictions by any means necessary. The Horizon system was never to be found at-fault in any way. Today, now, those 'investigators' only shield is the Nuremberg Defence of "I Was Only Following Orders", which has never flown and never will. Those 'investigators' didn't even write their own statements of evidence for court proceedings: they were HANDED their statements, pre-prepared by lawyers representing the Post Office, told to sign them and then swear by them in court - which is perjury. Now they're actively incriminating themselves by being forced to admit to that. That's how sordid this whole mess is.
@stevemohammed34973 ай бұрын
Ian is absolutely right as usual 🤷♂️
@jonhelmer85913 ай бұрын
He's not always right, but in this case 100%
@VanceRefrigeration3 ай бұрын
He was right about how Vote Leave broke electoral law, and therefore stole the referendum. But that was to be expected, Brexiters are just a bunch of racist fraudulent thugs
@bifferspice3 ай бұрын
@@jonhelmer8591 do you fancy giving a couple of examples where he isn't?
@Gordon.Pinkerton3 ай бұрын
@bifferspice not sure about Hislop specifically, but Private Eye was very wrong on Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine bullshit he shamelessly peddled for years.
@mrwavy19733 ай бұрын
Private Eye and Mr Hislop championed the postmasters for years. Thank you Ian
@afivey3 ай бұрын
Props to all at Computer Weekly and Private Eye for trying to drag the UK out of the mess it's in, one fight against ignorance and nonsense at a time. The measure of heroism is not in the success but the audacity to step up; both stepped up and both deserved their success. Long may it continue.
@HydrogenAlpha3 ай бұрын
I freaking love Ian Hislop. He is a towering intellect and absolutely unafraid to call a spade a spade.
@sharonwilson71153 ай бұрын
When will we see CEOs held accountable they leave a company with a golden handshake even though they've fucked up big style... Massive bonuses to shareholders demoralised workforce then handed another another CEO position to do it all again it beggars belief... My heart goes out to all of the people and their families who have been affected by this disgusting miscarriage of justice 😢
@mikethebloodthirsty3 ай бұрын
Same thing with the banking crisis... All the main players went on to err... Carry on being main players. I think two got any kind of punishment
@paramotorhead66233 ай бұрын
When hell freezes over is a good estimate.
@gtlindley743 ай бұрын
Love Ian Hislop’s passion for the truth. 👍🫶
@southendsites3 ай бұрын
The whole of the sorry story shows how low the UK has fallen... David Cameron should leave all public life just over the award of the honour... Ian Hislop has shown more decency than the whole Conservative Party and the rest of the Establishment put together. His verdict is decent and should be listened to, as well as acted upon.
@GoatOfMendez3 ай бұрын
I have no idea why Jake Berry is laughing and giggling through this. Hislop laid out the feckless filth we can all see and he thinks it’s worth a chortle.
@jackywhite8803 ай бұрын
Berry smirks and giggles because he knows full well what we all know. That he and the rest of his Tory criminals will - as always in a UK that's now little better than a banana republic - simply walk away scot free. My late father used to say, "What do you call a man who steals an apple? A thief! What do you call a man who steals 10 million pounds? You call him sir!"
@BillySnowball3 ай бұрын
Still tearing into him him as the credits roll. Excellent work Ian. Going to renew my private eye subscription
@CB-xr1eg3 ай бұрын
Yes he was letting him him have have it wasn't wasn't he?🤣
@nomore28633 ай бұрын
The thing that struck me was how it could so easily be proven that the money wasn't stolen as it would never have appeared in their bank account or even been spent!
@alan_davis3 ай бұрын
Post offices do deal in cash.... but I agree it would not have been difficult!
@Innesb3 ай бұрын
It’s not difficult to dispose of cash in small amounts (by which I mean up to tens of thousands). Many genuine cash thefts from companies are used for gambling for which there is no trace; you take the cash into the bookies and it’s gone! Even using cash to cover half your grocery shopping and clothing could make many thousands of £s ‘disappear’ over the course of a year. However, the onus should have been on the PO to prove that thefts actually occurred and, as we now know, they didn’t even have that basic evidence; they coerced the innocent into pleading guilty of fraud for fear of being found guilty of the much more serious offence of theft. This appears to have been widespread practice by PO investigators. Utterly despicable.
@toriesout86923 ай бұрын
@@InnesbI agree with your points. I think some of the issue was that it was many thousands in a month. I know working on investigations, I would have followed the money to see where are the ill gotten gains. Nobody there benefited so it staggered me when I heard this story. No credible investigator would have done that, they would have actually investigated regardless where the outcome led to. They also would have needed to gather significant and credible evidence to support a decision. They just seem to say “that’s what you owe, pay up.” My understanding is that is pretty much what happened and wasn’t even dramatised. That isn’t investigating. Seeing these “investigators” just acting like some crooked bailiffs is just shocking and I hope that PO has investigatory function taken from them. They shouldn’t have had it in the first place.
@informedchoice22493 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting this. I really wanted to see Hislop's full interview. He doesn't let go very often but when he does it's always legitimate and superb.
@David_Baxendale3 ай бұрын
I work in IT and have worked in change management/Q&A many times over the years. There is no way this was missed by any kind of Q&A system that is set up to find these kind of errors. Looks like it was swept under the rug to save someone's career and/or profits.
@sarbjitatwal82523 ай бұрын
four suicides due to this scandal, people made to felel shame and made to feel they let down the people they serve. how do you bring back a life lost?
@philwill01233 ай бұрын
Exactly. Postmasters and mistresses spat at, abused and racially abused and labelled criminals. And their families. With governor ,post office and Fujitsu knowing they are innocent. Basically government and post office are sitting on their hands because they still want to blame some post masters because they don't want to take 100% of the blame and quirk out of it.
@Maz-zb9ufАй бұрын
Correct
@Serge95953 ай бұрын
I’m a Yank (sorry), and for years I’ve loved Ian Hislop. This was brilliant. At his best.
@gavinmurrell34153 ай бұрын
Be proud, you lot walked away..
@notbloodylikely48173 ай бұрын
Its about time Ian stopped Private Eye and started running for election. We had one of his joke guests running the country, now lets have him. Id vote for him in a heartbeat and i cant be alone.
@HairyMunci3 ай бұрын
Fujitsu MUST pay every postmaster wrongly accused/convicted that million Ian suggested and the losses incurred to the taxpayer. A shocking abuse of corporate power
@callum47963 ай бұрын
We absolutely neeeeeeeeeed a no nonsense leader like Ian. The media needs to take serious notes from him too. Hes the only one i can rhink of thats seriously holding politicians to account
@sandersson28133 ай бұрын
What about Paxman or Andrew Neil?
@terryboland38163 ай бұрын
But who'se holding him to account? Private Eye? 😂
@fang_xianfu3 ай бұрын
The problem is that leaders have to do politics, that's their job. Politics is, boiled down to the simplest idea, the process of herding cats in the House of Commons. It's why Rishi is seen as weak, because he's so bad at it. It takes a special kind of person to have the patience to do that day-in day-out, which is why people like Hislop don't want that job. It's not what they enjoy.
@terryboland38163 ай бұрын
@@fang_xianfu And he's got no skill in it.
@sandersson28133 ай бұрын
Carping from the sidelines is easy.
@marktopp7453 ай бұрын
Sir Ian Hislop (sounds good) he’s 100% true. This all comes down to electioneering. The only reason this is being acted on.
@MartinandFreddie3 ай бұрын
And a million signature petition that they could not ignore
@1968spikey3 ай бұрын
I suspect he'd not accept
@ethzero3 ай бұрын
@@1968spikeyI'd hope Mr Hislop would say, "Thank you, but no thanks"
@kanedNunable3 ай бұрын
@@MartinandFreddie they have ignored numerous hitting that. its just a way for them to stick it to the libs at the moment
@stringer-ik1pc3 ай бұрын
Then he'd be part of the establishment. 😂😂😂 just like sir Ed.sir kier and sir Cameron.
@WhooshFlyingHorse4443 ай бұрын
Well said Ian Hislop. Hold those smirking MP's to account. They, the system and the establishment all stink and are rotten to the core. I hope that having an advocate for those Post Masters & Mistresses such as Ian will advance the case & conclude with full and speedy redress.
@AntonSmyth-od6rc3 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop, how British people used to be , fair minded, humourous, rational and decent.
@carolebrown-op7jg3 ай бұрын
And persistent! He hung on in there with this coverage when many wouldn’t have.
@SeanONilbud3 ай бұрын
No.
@beth12svist3 ай бұрын
I think you have a fair bit of patriotic nostalgia going on there. As a member of a different nation, I can assure you those are characteristics that apply to certain greats of the past regardless of where they were from; as a Czech, I'm thinking Karel Čapek. 🙂
@baronburch67023 ай бұрын
Now the traits that mark the English out are an ignorance only exceeded by their apathy.
@Lonewolf_1213 ай бұрын
People in power, politicians, companies etc have been corrupt from the day the existed, don't think "back in my day" was any better, they just got off with more shit
@johnhargreaves81013 ай бұрын
Typical Tory Politician, totally blind when it comes to reality. Keep it up Ian
@keirmitchell55603 ай бұрын
And what do you think Labour is. Remember a woman has a penis.
@kevinsyd20123 ай бұрын
Don't forget that this all happened under a Blaire Labour government, with Postmasters prosecuted long before Cameron came to power.
@HeeBeeGeeBee3923 ай бұрын
@@kevinsyd2012 Blairite = Tory lite
@MartinandFreddie3 ай бұрын
No it didn't, the prosecutions were being brought throughout the Coalition's term of office and for years afterwards, and it was the Tories that gave that bloody woman a CBE and continue Fujitsu's contract spending millions of £s of taxpayer's money. Wind your Tory neck in ! @@kevinsyd2012
@jeffsuter3443 ай бұрын
@@kevinsyd201213 years of Tory rule and they kept the injustice going which makes them worse.
@ianhouston44243 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop should be given a peerage. That way he could use ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ to highlight serious issues without fear of legal action. Since he’s continuously demonstrated his integrity over many years, I feel we could be confident he would not abuse the position- unlike many others.
@nickwyatt94983 ай бұрын
@ianhouston4424: He wouldn’t accept a peerage. Yet another reason why Ian’s a good thing.
@hybridh97023 ай бұрын
there's no way ian would accept a peerage, it would ruin his good reputation.
@scottmclaren39283 ай бұрын
Why would anyone with integrity want a peerage? In fact peerage and integrity is a contradiction. 😁😁
@gothmog24413 ай бұрын
He does seem to be proud of being “the most sued man in Britain” … Parliamentary privilege would ruin the fun
@JamesSmith1443 ай бұрын
@nickwyatt9498 I think that's part of the problem with society. The people who would be able to remain trustworthy whilst holding power are usually those uninterested in having it. Whilst I agree with the sentiment of not wanting to roll in the filth with the corrupt mps, someone has to go in there and clean it up at some point or it will never change. A vicious cycle that shows no sign of stopping soon.
@johnt84533 ай бұрын
Iain Hislop you speak for all of us who are neither ignoring the facts nor corrupt in our own actions. You are as many have said a National Treasure. Thank you.
@JohnSmall3143 ай бұрын
I've never seen Ian Hislop so angry. And so right. I'll start my subscription today.
@hugolloyd9403 ай бұрын
The best bit of television I see in my life absolutely brilliant thank you Ian Hislop that's the people want more honesty like that thank you once again.
@CB-xr1eg3 ай бұрын
Just a shame it didn't go on longer...
@VesiustheBoneCruncher3 ай бұрын
I think that may be the angriest I’ve seen Hislop and good on him, absolutely justified. Before we get even near policy, we’ve got to have more competent and honest government. Excoriation and humiliation are the only things that seem to hold this mob up for a second, so those who can do it publicly, must. Although I’m glad something is happening for the postmasters, this feels like an incredibly cynical PR job by a government desperate to turn opinion polls around.
@kevinsyd20123 ай бұрын
@VesiustheBoneCruncher: don't forget that this all happened under a Blaire Labour government, with Postmasters convicted long before Cameron came to power.
@fang_xianfu3 ай бұрын
@@kevinsyd2012 it did not all happen under the Blair government. Lots did, but the contract was signed under John Major and prosecutions continued under Cameron. The majority of the cover-up, the actual lying under oath and fraud, happened in the last 15 years.
@iamamyb3 ай бұрын
@kevinsyd2012 and what have the tories done about it over the past 14 years, besides give one of the culprits an honour? Very on brand. Committed fraud? Be a Tory Lord.
@SpacialKatana3 ай бұрын
You can't turn around when all the fucking wheels fell off years ago, they've just a passenger in the crash waiting for the impact. Big ups Ian Hislop
@KesselRunner6063 ай бұрын
People dismiss Private Eye as "Just a funny paper," but it's editorials contain some of the best, honest, old fashioned investigative journslism in the British press.
@beaso633 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop and Private Eye are the Rock Stars of UK Politics - Well done Ian for pushing this for over decade.
@exsappermadman250553 ай бұрын
Ian has been to court so many times he has to make sure what he's saying is correct!...He's ace...
@markcordwell20353 ай бұрын
Bloody disgrace,nobody knows anything and nobody responsible,total corruption and how is it possible for the post office to do there own prosecution??
@Ghengiskhansmum3 ай бұрын
It's not just the post office doing it's own prosecution. Various government departments are now allowed to prosecute. They should all be stopped and investigated for unsafe convictions, not just the post office.
@Rasscasse3 ай бұрын
There are quite a number of organisations who do their own prosecutions. Inland revenue, health and safety executive, environment agency and others. More than one would think.
@mim9593 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop has my ultimate respect - despite the private education, leading to Oxford furtherance and connections which I've no doubt, in part (alongside his intelligence, of course) culminated in Private Eye editorship at a comparatively young age, he has spent his life and intellect in a truly worthy and commendable way - exposing hypocrisy and bullshit and never being cowed by those so many with his background end up becoming. Legend and titan.
@marksieczko77663 ай бұрын
Good to see Hislop making himself heard. Private Eye has reported on this disgusting miscarriage/cover up for many years. The root of this (and many others similar) is that successive Gov'ts have had to rely on on quick fixes by outsourcing to Corporations instead of investing in controlled, fit for purpose bodies. The outsourced Corps have the Gov't by the short n curlies when the Contract is drawn up. They take the piss. Big time. Fujitsu suing the NHS for £700 MILLION. FFS. And still getting £BILLIONS worth of tax-payer funded contracts.
@diamondgeezertunes3 ай бұрын
Hislop is a warrior beast that we the general public need .. Sees through bs and cuts them down with his morals,facts, and intellect ..
@roystoncalder98533 ай бұрын
Would love Ian Hislop to be a regular on this programme. What a pity they cut this short.
@markbeeson26103 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is amazing. He’s not scared of any of them. He says what he means and means what he says. I’m astonished as to why Peston didn’t dedicate his entire programme to this subject. This debate was really riveting and it was over before it got going.
@adminimer51763 ай бұрын
Perfect example of why Ian Hislop is loved and honored across Britain, USA, and Commonwealth
@richardglossop90853 ай бұрын
We need more Ian Hislops in this country
@Jonbombs3 ай бұрын
The difference between someone who's looked at this for ten minutes vs someone who has looked at it for over ten years. Men against boys stuff from Hislop.
@vernonbear3 ай бұрын
Adam Crozier has swerved his responsibility. He was at the top of the Post Office when crucial decisions were made. He went on to become head of ITV and subsequently BT. Weird how his mates at ITV helped him not to be held accountable in the drama that aired.
@LifeAtSea503 ай бұрын
Lovely work from Mr Hislop…pure passion!
@PassiveAgressive3193 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is a legend 👏👏👏👏👏
@pmcamacho64473 ай бұрын
Love it that even at the end Ian wouldn't let it go
@trishmccombie823 ай бұрын
Go Ian! One of Britain’s best journalists
@nigelfisher37563 ай бұрын
God forbid that Private Eye ever goes under…
@mandismith893 ай бұрын
amazing how its taken a tv show to bring attention to something that was allowed to happen years ago
@emmabrooker1663 ай бұрын
It’s been covered for years by Private Eye - shame bigger media didn’t grasp what a big and important issue it was
@Ghengiskhansmum3 ай бұрын
It just goes to show how our MSM political shows and news have been staffed for decades by inept people from top to bottom.
@deleted45773 ай бұрын
The media will have known but they just don't care. The biggest media outlets are right-wing so wouldn't want to upset big business nevermind the sitting conservative government. And the last bastion of big media left-wing investigative journalism died when Alan Rusbridger stepped down at the guardian and they were turned into a left-wing version of the daily heil. @@emmabrooker166
@spoonerbooner3 ай бұрын
Too right, the totally confirms they really don't give a hoot about the people that make this country work. Key worker when they need us. . Criminal if if it saves there faves
@andrewoliver89303 ай бұрын
The public has been nullified with crap media output. The folks at the top like it that way.
@R0nge3 ай бұрын
He’s a national treasure
@PeteCarlton3 ай бұрын
Can't watch this often enough! Ian Hislop still has the fire in his belly that makes him one of our greatest-ever campaigning journalists - and he's funny too. Jake Berry never stood a chance (not that there's any reason to cry over that!).
@arghjayem3 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop proving again what a legend he is! I would say he should be knighted if I wasn’t against the monarchy and everything that accompanies it including that ridiculous awards system! 😂
@danbilling3 ай бұрын
Pretty sure he would turn it down, even if it was offered to him, which it wouldn’t, as he upsets too many apple carts.
@FannyShmellar3 ай бұрын
Who would want to be knighted to be alongside the likes of Michelle Mone, Jacob Reese Mogg and Michael Fabricant? The whole thing has been cataclysmically debased by the Tories. It is beyond laughable, they just troll the common man with these joke awards. They’ve fucked the country beyond any possible parody, award each other for doing it and expect us all to call them Sir and Dame for the pleasure of doubling our mortgages, stealing our taxes and turning our nation into a laughing stock with zero public services fit for purpose. They have ruined us and yet you will still vote for them as they laugh at you from their villa in the Swiss Alps.
@beniteztheconman3 ай бұрын
@@danbillingare you serious? You don't work for the bbc for 35 years if you are not part of the establishment
@jameslonsdale61133 ай бұрын
Legend? What has he ever done for public service? He ridiculous MP’s and celebs . What on earth has he done to deserve a knighthood? Private eye was brilliant against the post office, why doesn’t he target and go after the outlets who rejected this. Why doesn’t he fight against the sex gangs up north?!
@alfredthegreat95433 ай бұрын
Don't worry, every country has similar awards for service with different names, be they a monarchy or not. Just ours are linked to history and the monarchy. Still awards of public recognition.
@user-gg8iu8ic5k3 ай бұрын
I'm glad all of these people can find humour in this horror show, when people went to prison and even committed sui*. Even now, there is a refusal to own up and take responsibility. The people responsible for this utter clusterfk need to be behind bars.
@nickharvey51493 ай бұрын
I don't think a single person here would disagree with you
@user-gu5kk7wr5q3 ай бұрын
The Tories hate Ian Hislop because he is so thorougher in all of his investigations and nobody can hold a candle to him. I wish we had more like Ian scrutinising what the shower in government get up to and to think That creep Jake Berry tory MP for Darwen and Rossendale who was up Boris Johnsons arse throughout the time Johnson was prime minister and Boris Johnson gives him a totally unworthy knighthood for his loyalty to a man who had to resign. What an accolade of achievement for Jake Berry.
@robin2311763 ай бұрын
"You can't just talk nonsense and not be interrupted!" Love it
@pauldarlington91573 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop. The ultimate hero who talks common sense.
@davidbrassington17273 ай бұрын
Ian, well done! A man of intelligence, carry on.
@benculpa3 ай бұрын
This is so awesome. Jess' face when Hislop lets rip is so good.
@noneofyourbizness3 ай бұрын
i had to shout "SHUT UP !" at my computer as soon as peston jumped in to quiet Mr Hislop and thereby help defend the criminal filth from the lambasting they so richly deserve to receive...on their way to prison.
@johnwood24483 ай бұрын
Sad that democratically elected politicians in Britain seem to have as much respect for the truth as Trump and Putin. Thanks Ian from the bottom of a deeply cynical person please keep it up.
@CB-xr1eg3 ай бұрын
Wait, what? You're thanking him from your bottom...really??🤔
@DessieTots3 ай бұрын
Let me think for a second. Trump or the Biden crime family. Trump regenerates the economy of the U.S.A. and Biden destroys it for no other reason than to maliciously reverse all of the acts brought in by Trump. What untruths you are referring to?
@Fload.Ritlhe3 ай бұрын
What truth are you talking about when referring to Putin?
@eddyk33 ай бұрын
At least in the UK there's often consequences. Sometimes swiftly, sometimes eventually.
@simc4443 ай бұрын
Ian Hislop is a national treasure.
@CB-xr1eg3 ай бұрын
He'd make a good defence lawyer.
@jcrosby83573 ай бұрын
@@CB-xr1egHe's certainly employed enough 😂. A great man
@garyslater12433 ай бұрын
Ian's clarity of thought is matched only by his erudite delivery. The greatest exponent of " telling it like if is."
@DessieTots3 ай бұрын
You failed to mention the £46,000,000 taken by the cartel of lawyers representing the victims leaving the postmasters and mistresses £20,000 each? A bloody disgrace. Has anyone questioned even in the expensive world of litigation how £46,000,000 can be justified.
@stringer-ik1pc3 ай бұрын
Sir Ed Davy was one of them.
@gothmog24413 ай бұрын
The post office’s primary tactic was to run up costs, hoping the postmasters would run out of money … ofc the post office used our money to do it.
@Rasscasse3 ай бұрын
Wow. Thats astonishing.
@unscentednapalm85473 ай бұрын
They did it on a no win no fee basis. They took all the risk.
@ToothbrushMan3 ай бұрын
I should point out that it was the engineers at Fujitsu that were so alarmed at the lack of testing by the PO that they leaked the story to Computer Weekly, after they had been rebuffed by the Fujitsu management.
@EmptyGlass993 ай бұрын
Jess Phillips is loving it!
@freaksy20733 ай бұрын
I’ve never seen her smile so much 😀
@user-iq1dr9qh2u3 ай бұрын
There was a BBC Panorama investigation in 2015 on the Post Office scandal which included interviews with the Fujitsu whistleblower.
@jesush.tap-dancingchrist73283 ай бұрын
Shout out to Private Eye for banging on for years about this
@lubumbashi66663 ай бұрын
It is rather disgusting that Peston tries to laugh his way through the segment.
@rupertwinston-hayes37903 ай бұрын
What lefty peston?
@user-oc9uw4tk3vАй бұрын
Embarrassed at the anger live on air. Peston is ok I think