No, nothing to do with ethics, righting wrongs or moral obligation.
It’s all to do with “value for money”
According to Paul Skully MP (Post Office minister Feb 2020 for just over 2 years) the Treasury says it will need to pass a “Value for Money” test.
As the Mirror reports: Rishi Sunak is facing tricky questions about whether the Treasury dragged their feet when he was Chancellor over paying proper compensation to the sub-postmasters who exposed the scandal.
Sixty eight year old Alan Bates told the Business and Trade Select Committee inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal yesterday (16 Jan 2024):
“There is no reason at all why full financial redress shouldn’t have been delivered by now. It’s gone on for far too long. People are suffering, they’re dying … And it just seems to be tied up in bureaucracy. And that seems to be the big problem.”
[Alan Bates himself has yet to receive a compensation offer].
Not being a beancounter, can anyone explain to Owl what “Value for Money” means in this context?
Is it something like: the more spent on compensation; the less there is for tax giveaways?
East Devon Watch 
The answer is obvious – the value in question is “image”. Giving full compensation to those whose lives were literally destroyed wasn’t judged by the treasury to deliver any better “image” then promising full compensation and then being miserly both with the amounts and then the timescales.
This government is only concerned with one thing – remaining in power – well two things if you consider the role “image” plays in this – or three things if you count enriching yourselves and your party donors and your already obscenely rich friends.
Justice, right vs. wrong, fairness, compassion, making good for their evil deeds of the past (for those who are still alive to benefit from redress that is – tough on those who are dead after all the delaying tactics) – none of these have any place in the modern Conservative Party for whom the Wall Street mantra of “Greed is Good” is the gospel they live by.
If anyone can actually point out a modern Conservative Party member who has even a shred of honour I would be most surprised – not the least because it is difficult to see how anyone who has a shred of honour could still be a member of the current evil Tory Party. (Of course they will all claim to have honour – but that is just the self-justification that results from this brand of narcissism.)
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