The victims of the UK Post Office scandal are whistleblowers – and should be recognised as such

The UK Post Office subpostmasters have been called many things over the years:

• thieves, crooks and fraudsters (often garnished with appalling racial epithets) by Post Office investigators and managers;
• victims by those campaigning for them, including MPs;
• heroes by some; and
• the “skint little people” by the dramatist, Gwyneth Hughes,