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bridgen on this issue, is andrew bridgen , an independent member of parliament for north west leicestershirerew, you were on this almost as soon as you were elected, you? were elected, weren't you? >> a few weeks of >> i was within a few weeks of being elected. i was, um, at a surgery and two of my constituents came me with constituents came to see me with an story . mr and an unbelievable story. mr and mrs. rudkin, michael rudkin had been given the honour of representing all the subpostmasters in the uk . his subpostmasters in the uk. his wife had taken over running, maintaining the post office at ibstock , and he'd uncovered what ibstock, and he'd uncovered what fujitsu were doing with the accounts back in 2008, and he felt he'd been targeted deliberately with a loss immediately after his discovery and fortunately , susan, we and fortunately, susan, we managed to get her. she was one of the first nine to be cleared criminally. i think it was a december 2020, but they still haven't had all their compensation. and that's all these years. there's 75,000. you're absolutely right. it's a soft j

thank you, mr >> andrew bridgen thank you, mr speaken >> andrew bridgen thank you, mr speaker. thantwo decades ago, the then prime minister, tony blair, misled this house by promoting and endorsing the post office horizon it system as perfect, protecting the large corporation that created it and causing untold harm and damage and misery to innocent people. >> can the current prime minister think of anything he has promoted in partnership with huge businesses as safe and effective, which is ultimately harm the british people? and will he use this opportunity to correct that safe and effective statement, or will he choose the same line as tony blair? sit back, do nothing, and let the misery just continue pile up ? misery just continue to pile up? >> prime minister mr speaker, as we've been clear, the horizon scandal is a terrible miscarriage of justice and we're doing everything that we can to make it right to what he was more broadly insinuating. >> let me be unequivocal from this dispatch box that covid vaccines are safe . mr speaker , vaccines are safe. mr speaker, joe gideon, than

i first heard about this when andrew bridgen raised it all, and it. and it is shocking, isn't it.e than 700 staff were accused of fraud. someone killed themselves it. tragically, themselves over it. tragically, martin was martin griffiths, because he was hounded £100,000, he hounded over £100,000, which he didn't it's really didn't. oh, it's really disgusting. and ed davey comes out very, very badly. seems to have refused a meeting with alan bates . have refused a meeting with alan bates. there's have refused a meeting with alan bates . there's screenshot i've bates. there's a screenshot i've seen is looks seen which i think is looks appears real on x, which appears to be real on x, which is from may 2010 where is a letter from may 2010 where he declines the meeting . now he declines the meeting. now he's saying he got bad advice. okay so doesn't come out okay so he doesn't come out well. one no one comes out well. no one no one comes out well. no one no one comes out well of and i think well out of it. and i think normally kind thing normally this kind of thing is silly when you

andrew bridgen raised him. raised it. everyone ignored him. anyway, up.ay, i'm getting wound up. what bruce? what do you think bruce? >> with christa. the >> i agree with christa. the length that length of time, considering that people their own lives. >> mean the lives that have >> i mean the lives that have been ruined not only by the people with us people that aren't with us anymore, on effect anymore, but the knock on effect to and it's like to them. and it's like everything will everything lessons will be learned it's learned and inquire. and it's like it's too late. yeah well, you say that i'd still very much like 600 it was coming like 600 grand if it was coming my way, i would. >> no no, no, >> well no no, no, no, i wouldn't say keep your money. >> mean i'm not saying >> no, i mean i'm not saying don't money, i do don't keep the money, but i do think it's, you know, it's beyond the length of time beyond tardy the length of time that to this that it's taken to get to this stage. and how longer stage. and like, how much longer are to wait are they g

people david people like duncan baker, david davies , karl turner, andrew davies, karl turner, andrewve been bridgen, lucy allan have been standing up in parliament pushing on this for a very long time and they need their due today because they're the sorts of mps who persist and ask those difficult questions when some people would rather they didn't . people would rather they didn't. and that gets us to the sorts of results that we're much closer to getting now as a result of that, thank you for joining us in the studio, andrew. >> but i mean, as you say, you know, why has it taken a tv drama this to be front page drama for this to be front page news and the deadline for compensation cases, think compensation cases, i think expires clock expires in august. so the clock is ticking taxpayers would is ticking and taxpayers would like government. your like the government. i like your idea a bridging loan , idea of maybe a bridging loan, but book has to stop but really the book has to stop with fujitsu, surely? >> i think it does. but as i say, the public will expect these these postmaste

and then on the 29th of june, 2015, andrew bridgen held a westminster hall debate.orizon scheme could be remotely accessed . both of them accessed. both of them identified the fact there were bugsin identified the fact there were bugs in the system and then, according to my timeline in 2017, both both in 2014. the second sight report response from the post office maintains remote access to horizon branch counts is impossible. then again, in 2017, the post office admits in court that previous assertions that remote access the horizon branch counts was impossible. how do you respond to that? when you were three, four, five, six, seven years right . calling out the fact that right. calling out the fact that remote access was possible? i just i'd like to hear how you respond to that when both the people you were talking to in parliament, when you were raising it within your groups, i just wonder if you could add some comments to it. joe should we with you? we start with you? >> here we are, nine years after that, not sorted that, and it's still not sorted out. , how lon

but andrew voting andrew bridgen and others voting against know. against again the dup you know. >> theyinst. >> yeah they are voting against. >> come from the >> eight of them come from the world of chance. >> um, i was told >> we have from um, i was told by wilson definitely by sammy wilson definitely eight of so again that makes it sort >> so again that makes it sort of bum time of squeaky bum time does it christopher. superb as christopher. hope superb as even christopher. hope superb as ever. and thank you very much , ever. and thank you very much, sir goodwill, joining sir robert goodwill, for joining us in studio scarborough. us in studio mp for scarborough. and whitby. a huge afternoon ahead. and of course we'll have lots more on this story at 5:00. we'll this voting all the we'll follow this voting all the way to the wire. will rishi once again escape. and there's plenty more of coverage on our website. gbnews.com. and you've helped to make it the fastest . growing make it the fastest. growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much. now, a reminder of those