They will be protected the establishment in the UK always protects its own

@@tomricketts7821 Yes I think that often people are placed in such positions due to their 'pliability' in some form, which results in failings of either their integrity or strength to deal with the parasitic slime sliding around organisations in senior roles, who seek to benefit from all and anyone, whatever the cost. This senior slime dont care of the cost, loss and harm to others, but place someone else at the head to avoid taking the flack for their trespasses and criminality.

What a brilliant idea 😀

​@@richardarcher3435double sided like coin!!!.......ha ha

I agree however Post Office don't issue stamps, It is Royal Mail who issue stamps not Post Office

And also her entire salary given to victim plus @ large fine. Excommunicate from church. What a sad ex use for a human being.

All of her assets should be confiscated and sold with the proceeds going to the compensation fund.

Why being so kind? It's because she is not behind bars, these things will happen again.

​@veronicajean3612 "Excommunicated from the Church,"?, but she is a leading theist (recommended to be the Bishop of London) and head of the C of E Ethics Committee! She is being quite consistent with theism, really!

be in

Crying because she got caught!

Will she have to return any of her salary to the victims .

Unrelenting, God bless Mr Beer.

And the other guy who is questioning her, too.

Yea Mr Beer astonishingly competent.

Whom are these MPs and politicians blaming her for their actions (ie scapegoating)? By describing her as a scapegoat you are merely excusing her personal actions and attempting (just as she is) to paint her as a victim. This individual was The Boss. She did not follow the instructions of others. Rather, she instructed others. She has however accused her subordinates of knowing about and continuing the injustice - that is scapegoating.

@@georgehughes5703 I am not excusing Vennells of anything. It is quite possible for a highly culpable person to double up as a scapegoat for those who put them in their job. MPs of all three parties let this happen. Go back through the ministers responsible for the Post Office as 'an arms length' organisation. Generally MPs of all parties were responsible for refusing to act, deliberate or feigned ignorance. Vennells is a victim in as far as if they had acted she would have been caught far sooner and far fewer postmasters treated in an appalling manner. The worst villains of the piece are the politicians who let it happen and are, now, working overtime to dodge responsibility. Vennells deserves severe punishment but that does not change the fact others let this happen. In perspective, she was drank from a poisoned chalice. I suspect she was appointed by politicians because they knew Horizon was already a disaster and needed someone to carry the can. Even Blair, who implemented it knew something very serious was adrift. Having said that, she should have known better and backed away. Internal politicians are often so self entitled and arrogant they think nothing outside their organisations can 'get them'. Big politics is doing just that.

She, as CEO carries the responsibility for this disaster. She weaseled her way through three days of calculated evidence, don’t let her off the hook here.

She was the ceo of Post Office, the buck quite literally stops with her.

@@exiledscouser919 Scapegoats can be as immoral as those who set them up to dodge their responsibility.

Arrogance permeates her whole being.

@@philhart4849 See how long that arrogance lasts in a jail cell.

I do really hope she goes to Prison. If she doesn’t I’m pretty sure her life will be pretty untenable but really hope she goes to prison

Apparently God is on her side.

You see their fruitage by their works not by what they say,look at the religious leaders in Jesus day.

It's called "the Peter Principle" with added arrogance, willful ignorance and a sense of entitlement.

Because the ability to cover your behind, blame others, and snicker at the hard workers getting paid a pittance is what gets you to the top. Vile, vile behavior.

@@sadjaxx Agree!

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What were her qualifications for being appointed to her position ? What was her background ?

The power and the glory,but no escape of delivering evil

sardonic humour at its best thank you

My personal opinion is that PO management should all loose their pensions via special legislation. There is an unpleasant legal precedent being set, however, if Parliament introduce legislation that overturns decisions made by the Judiciary. It's not the judges that were at fault, it's the PO management telling lies and lies and more lies. And still no proper compensation fot those who's lives were destroyed in the cruelest of ways. Combine this with the infected blood scandal has made me ashamed to be British. And I'm told there is almost certainly more to come from a specific part of the NHS which it is alleged to be running a two-tier NHS for tens of thousands of their most vulnerable patients. Time will tell.

It wasn't just her. There's the board as well as a chief lawyer happily sitting in Sydney. Don't let them create any single fall guy. They are all guilty.

Abso……lutely!!!!

No one wants to tell the truth when CEOs like Vennells are more likely to 'shoot the messenger' than listen to the message.

Aust and NZ people need to file complaints with the NSW law society about the Post Office chief lawyer, hiding in Sydney, refusing to attend the inquiry.

According to Computer Weekly the police have opened three lines of investigation into this.

They'll kick into action when they find PV had misgendered someone in an email.

At present, this is an Inquiry. Hopefully criminal proceeding might follow?

She is a victim of her own arrogance, willful ignorance and sense of entitlement. I have neither time nor sympathy for her.

Except the acting was terrible.

It wasn't acting. She was crying because she's realised that she might not get away with her crimes.

But were there any tears? A bit of snorting alright!

I can’t disagree, they were quite happy to see poor beleaguered postmasters be imprisoned, all the while knowing the Horizon system had serious issues. Utterly shocking.

She lies like a Dover Sole.

Oh what tangled web we weave ……….. they went too far down the rabbit hole to change tack !!

Which GB News item was that? Can you show me a link, please?

@@dandare1001 My Mistake and apologies toit GB NEWS i was watching before that. I think it was a clip from G.M.B with Richard Madely a female presenter and 2 postmasters

These people were victims who suffered terribly at Vennel’s hands. I felt that they were by far “the bigger person” to have such a forgiving attitude, they were also aware that Vennels was not the only one, there were plenty in post before her. They also felt she had possibly been a victim or scapegoat herself. I didn’t feel sick but I did feel surprised at their magnanimous attitude considering what they had suffered.

@@geraldineorman4976 You need to watch a later version after Vennels has given her evidence, they were not so forgiving then, more angry and incredulous.

Funny how we the people have wanted a election for a long time . And it's been announced just has the PO scandal is on TV and the truth is coming out at last . In my opinion

What honesty from a Brit Govt. They are establishment as well.

The Met are investigating this matter presently, they probably will have to wait until the inquiry has finished gathering evidence before they can proceed.

That's what I noticed,it was to try and get sympathy, but it doesn't wash.

Don't know about that Jeffrey Archer,and Jonathan Aitken would disagree

Don't give up yet

Sadly , that’s true. They will argue they could never receive a fair trial and they are lawyered to the hilt - money talks !

Both male....leave it at that

As 'Not The Nine O'clock News ' would put it.......'he's livid'

You do realise that you are criticising a person thought by Jusin Welby to have been a suitable candidate for the position of Bishop of London? We know a lot about Vennells, but what does this say about Welby, who seems to have been uncharacteristically silent on this issue?

@@dovetonsturdee7033 I don't know why you are commenting to me. I don't know anything about Welby, I'm commenting on Paula and her lack of true fruit of the Spirit that a mature believer would exhibit.

@@carrier411 Please don't be offended. My comment relates more widely, to the current state of the Church of England and the political activist in clerical garb who is steadily destroying it.

When religious folks claim the truth my sceptical genes kick in.

@@dovetonsturdee7033I think most of us from elsewhere already have a very accurate view of that godless man of no faith . Sheer wickedness from what I can see . 👍

"I believe she was really crying…. But for whom?" Herself.