'Many of us who've been in the world of business, we know that new computer systems, there's always a few issues'
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Welcome to Britain's favourite Sunday sermon. Well, it's been another extraordinary week in British politics, and this week I want to focus on trust in our leaders, our politicians, the establishment.
Because, of course, we've had the ongoing post office scandal with new shocking revelations at multiple different levels, which goes to the heart of how government works and its relation with big business.
Because it now transpires that we've had evidence from one of the bosses at Fujitsu, Mr. Paul Patterson, who admitted that actually problems were known about years and years ago. And he very decently admitted that morally, yes, Fujitsu should pay something towards the cost of the compensation.
But then it also transpired earlier this week that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, back in 1998, he knew of problems with the Fujitsu software beginning to be rolled out with the Post Office.
Now here's the thing. There are also suggestions that actually the Japanese government pressured the UK government back at the same time to progress this Fujitsu contract, even though everybody knew there were significant problems, so significant that Gordon Brown said the government was thinking of ditching it before that even started.
Now, look, many of us who've been in the world of business, we know that new computer systems, there's always a few issues. It's never as plain sailing. There's always little bugs and glitches and things to sort out. Fine, we accept that. We know that.
But if you've got a decent company that's rolling out a contractual obligation in a sensible way, then when the bugs and glitches then they appear, you are on the mount, you sort them out and you get it better and better and everybody works collectively together.
Watch Richard Tice's full Sunday Sermon for January 21 2024 above.
