Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal(bbc.co.uk)

    Between 1999 and 2015, an estimated 3500 staff employed by the state-owned
    Post Office service were accused of fraud, theft or malicious accounting.
    
    Almost 700 of them were convicted in courts and some 230 were jailed.      
    Most were legally compelled to repay the amounts they were accused of
    fleecing, resulting in bankruptcies, marriage failures, substance abuse and
    even suicides.

    There was just one not-so-little problem – virtually all of those people
    were innocent.[1]  

   a) if people have been made to put up with these kinds of horrendous miscarriages of justice for
   so long, in a postal services affair, what other miscarriages of justice are there that go 
   unnoticed, uninvestigated and unpunished. 
   b) is this "part and parcel" of middle income British life? do the Brits put a large amount of
   trust in their unimpeachable public institutions? do they pull themselves back, short of calling 
   into question the integrity of those that are tasked with such jobs? (atleast more so than is
   the case in the United States and elsewhere). I ask because I've come across things that seem to 
   buttress exactly that : 

      It is also forcing everyone to pay higher taxes for worse
      public services: The great British Middle Class live in
      a world of petty crime that goes un-investigated let
      alone punished, over-crowded emergency health services,
      and ever-lengthening NHS waiting lists (Britain has one
      of the lowest ratios of doctors and hospital beds per
      patient in the whole of the OECD).