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To: Rishi Sunak PM Sir Chris Wormald KCB Cabinet Office Honours & Appointments Secretariat
Forfeiture of honours bestowed upon every Post Office board member
Given the national outcry at the Post Office Scandal and the publics disdain for all involved. In excess of 1.2 million calling for Paula Vennells aka Mrs John Wilson to be stripped of CBE eventually she has been forced to renege her grasp on her undeserved honour, I much would have preferred to see Sir Chris Wormald KCB (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath) in his position as Chair of the Honours and Appointments Secretariat forfeit it first.
This leaves many others retaining their ill gotten honours such as Alice Elizabeth Perkins CB aka Mrs Jack Straw (Companion of the order of the Bath) a Chivalry order bestowed on her in 2002 Chair of Post Office during the height of this miscarriage of justice and has since sneaked away under the radar.
Kevin Gilliland OBE honoured and promoted to Chief Executive Post Office Retail in 2017 by Vennells herself soon after he personally saw to my demise as a SubPostMaster (written evidence available).
These are just two of those titled individuals who have gone on to benefit from the Greatest Miscarriage of Justice ever seen in the United Kingdom.
Taking just these two individual examples I would request you call upon your Government to investigate just how many others profited both financially and by means of nefarious honours from this disgraceful affair and deal severely with each of them.
In the meantime would you kindly order Sir Chris Wormald to look to stripping both Perkins and Gilliland of their respective honours.
Thank you
Why is this important?
It is vitally important to the good people of our nation to know that the Post Office Scandal isn’t going away anytime soon certainly not before a General Election where those responsible will be judged by honest hardworking citizens.
Throughout this entire shameful event we have seen on an hourly basis the sin, criminality and downright despicable behaviour of employees of Post Office a wholly owned Government company, from the top down and this I am sure is only the tip of the iceberg of unearthing atrocities.
From the implementation of the flawed Horizon computer accounting system in 1999 every SubPostMaster was lied to, abused and humiliated for it would seem like a game to be played out in Post Office HQ corridors. I see it like a cat teasing a mouse to its final demise horrific and watched over by the entire board for their unnatural pleasure.
As a honest hardworking SubPostMaster of over 17 years I as millions of other decent citizens have not one ounce of respect for anyone working for Post Office on behalf of the UK Government. Nor for that matter any Minister, Civil Servant involved with Post Office Ltd, with may I add the exception of Paul Scully MP who had a completed grasp of the sheer extent of this scandal until the Prime Minister moved this pioneering champion to the back benches making it obvious that Paul Scully was too near revealing truths, which as it happens ITV did very succinctly.
I would again call on the amazing population on behalf of every SubPostmaster past and present who are not as the press insist “Managers” of Post Office another misconception, but self-employed business people who invested their own Money into buying and operating a franchise by any other name.
It is time the Government were held fully accountable for this travesty and certain past time that the Honours system was not used to reward such people as Perkins and Gillland.
How it will be delivered
By hand
