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 LIBOR submitters fit the “rogues gallery” identikit nicely. By making microscopic adjustments that no-one else would notice, they (allegedly) stood to make multimillion pound bonuses for themselves. It was almost a victimless crime.
-The post office middle managers do not. If they had anything to gain personally from vilifying oppressing these pillars of the community nationwide, it was indirect and paled in comparison to the city bonuses on offer to the LIBOR submitters. These people do ''not'' resemble “bad apples”. They seem unremarkable, familiar, rather mediocre office workers.
+The post office middle managers do not. If they had anything to gain personally from vilifying oppressing these pillars of the community nationwide, it was indirect and paled in comparison to the city bonuses on offer to the [[LIBOR]] submitters. These people do ''not'' resemble “bad apples”. They seem unremarkable, familiar, rather mediocre office workers.
-Watching these individuals give evidence, two things occur: firstly, the weave of life’s tapestry would not have had to be that different for these witnesses themselves to have been sub-postmasters, on the other end of this outrage. None more so than Paula Vennells, a middle-English lay Methodist, who even ''looks'' like a sub-postmaster.
+Watching these individuals give evidence, two things occur: firstly, the weave of life’s tapestry wouldn’t have needed to be that different for these witnesses themselves to have been sub-postmasters, on the other end of this outrage. None more so than CEO Paula Vennells, a middle-English lay Methodist, who even ''looks'' like a sub-postmaster.
-Secondly — ''there but for the grace of God go I''. Post Office inhouse legal head Rodric Williams is a fifty-something expat New Zealander,
+Secondly — ''there but for the grace of God go I''. Post Office inhouse legal head Rodric Williams is a fifty-something expat New Zealander, whose career trajectory seems strikingly similar to JC’s. In the halogen glare of cross-examined hindsight, his actions might seem regrettable, but we should ask ourselves: knowing what he knew then, would we have done any differently? We should not kid ourselves here.