Sep 25, 2026 · 58 min · 21 segments
Is Britain being governed in the public interest, or are too many decisions being made behind closed doors? In this episode of Society 2.0, Greg sits down with former MP Andrew Bridgen for the launch…
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they wouldn't give me the justification of being proved right on the post office horizon after 10 odd years or HS2 because the political reasons.
Despite being the MP who got the public inquiry and on day one filled in all the forms they sent me to be a witness and give my evidence That public inquiry never called for my evidence because my evidence would have been damning and they didn't want to hear it because my constituents weren't criminalized as a result of a computer glitch.
And as a newly elected MP, what I thought were an elderly, broken couple came to see me at a meeting and told me this story, which was unbelievable.
So Michael had run a post office up in the north of England for a long time.
He'd moved to Ibstock in northwest Leicester, where all the bricks come from.
And... with his wife Susan, and he was such a good sub-postmaster, they elected him chairman of the Sub-Postmasters Federation, so he got to negotiate with all the stakeholders, because effectively sub-postmasters are basically running their own business, and they get paid a wage by, a sub-postmaster's wage by the post office.
Is this post-privatisation or at the time pre-privatisation? It was pre-privatisation, but the post office was never privatised.
I
that it was...
Sorry, you're quite right.
What's the difference then? Well, Royal Mail is the moving of the letters, and the post office is the shop, the physical shop where you...
Ah!
So a very well-respected sub-postmaster, because all the other sub-postmasters had elected him to be their spokesperson for the UK in northwest Leicestershire, in Ibstock, a village I knew well.
He said that part of his duties, he got invited to go to Fujitsu's headquarters.
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they wouldn't give me the justification of being proved right on the post office horizon after 10 odd years or HS2 because the political reasons.
Despite being the MP who got the public inquiry and on day one filled in all the forms they sent me to be a witness and give my evidence That public inquiry never called for my evidence because my evidence would have been damning and they didn't want to hear it because my constituents weren't criminalized as a result of a computer glitch.
And as a newly elected MP, what I thought were an elderly, broken couple came to see me at a meeting and told me this story, which was unbelievable.
So Michael had run a post office up in the north of England for a long time.
He'd moved to Ibstock in northwest Leicester, where all the bricks come from.
And... with his wife Susan, and he was such a good sub-postmaster, they elected him chairman of the Sub-Postmasters Federation, so he got to negotiate with all the stakeholders, because effectively sub-postmasters are basically running their own business, and they get paid a wage by, a sub-postmaster's wage by the post office.
Is this post-privatisation or at the time pre-privatisation? It was pre-privatisation, but the post office was never privatised.
I
that it was...
Sorry, you're quite right.
What's the difference then? Well, Royal Mail is the moving of the letters, and the post office is the shop, the physical shop where you...
Ah!
So a very well-respected sub-postmaster, because all the other sub-postmasters had elected him to be their spokesperson for the UK in northwest Leicestershire, in Ibstock, a village I knew well.
He said that part of his duties, he got invited to go to Fujitsu's headquarters.
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