Mr Bates vs The Post Office

I believe the term is challenge w***

She has been well skewered over this suicide chap.

If this was a plod interview she would more than likely be going no comment from this point

She was planting alternative motives for his death in the minds of others - with no basis of knowledge about Mr Griffiths at all.

Beer is a top operator. Her delays in answering unanswerable questions reminds me of Lee Mack trying to concoct believable lies on Would I Lie To You.

Things like that are passing my mind too. These are not human responses.

They are but they are responses that have been heavily coached?

Yeah - I can see the coaching session now:

- when you get questioned about the suicides, make sure you break out the Kleenex.

- previous appearances, there's been criticism of being cold hearted, so better say "sorry" at every opportunity.. etc..

It's just more of the same. Anything which is awkward or nails a point, memory lapse. Anything which has a glimmer of a get out, crystal clear recall.

How many more scandals to come out? Increasingly clear that the set who thought they were 'the powers that be" really considered "Ordinary people just don't matter." Except they're gradually being exposed and definitely found wanting.

Please don't ever use that phrase again in regards to this woman, it has connotations that should never be applied to her!

Mr Beer is far better at getting answers than she is at avoiding them! Despite the selective memory.

She is simply not credible. Didn't know we had a prosecutorial team? Well sort of but didn't know how many, and anyway I wasn't the only one who was surprised when we found out.