Chameleon Magazine

Let’s call this what it is: a national disgrace that stinks from the polished boardrooms down to the ruined lives on the shop floor. The Horizon scandal isn’t just about faulty software—it’s about human cruelty wearing a legal badge, top brass looking the other way, and decades of silence while innocent people were shredded by a system that knew better.

For years, ordinary sub-postmasters—community lifelines—were accused of theft, fraud, and dishonesty. Not because they were guilty. But because a glitchy machine said so. And the people in charge? They knew. They knew. And still they pressed on, sentencing hundreds to public shame, bankruptcy, and in far too many cases, jail time.

⚖️ When the Suits Should Have Been in the Dock

We’ve seen the footage. Tearful apologies. Shaky statements. Parliamentary “regret.” But what we haven’t seen? Justice. Because if a sub-postmaster had deliberately cost the state millions, ruined hundreds of lives, and lied through their teeth for two decades… you can bet your last stamp they’d be rotting in a cell by now.

Instead, the people who greenlit this nightmare—legal departments, senior execs, and bureaucrats playing God with livelihoods—still walk free. Early retirements. Honours lists. Golden pensions.

It’s not just the scandal. It’s the impunity.

Their pursuit of “justice” was ruthlessly efficient. Why shouldn’t the same standard be applied to them? Let the courtrooms they loved so much come calling. Let their freedom hang in the balance, the way they did to others without a second thought.

And no, this outrage wouldn’t burn so hot if they’d held their hands up when it counted. But they didn’t. They buried the truth, bullied the victims, and weaponised the law. That’s not incompetence.

That’s criminal.

🚨 Challenges 🚨

Should executives face actual jail time for their role in the Post Office scandal? Would you call it justice—or just the bare minimum? What’s stopping accountability from reaching all the way to the top?