She literally ruined the lives of people, sent them to prison on a lie, to protect the unearned reputation of her precious Post Office.

The Truth Is Hurting Paula Vennells, thats why she is crying, she thought she had got away with it..

She couldn't remember anything that made her look bad. Funnily enough, she could remember specific emails where the buck could be passed. She lied. Why is anyone surprised?

She came across as totally heartless to me.

Either she was criminally inept in her position or downright lying and evil. I think probably the latter.

She blamed everyone else and everything else.. and took no responsibility or accountability for her actions at all.

“I let these people down …” - that’s a bit rich. “These people” were sent to jail, their lives ruined. Unbelievable how the travesty went on for so long.

She had a full and photographic memory of every minor thing that could incriminate any member of her staff but yet could not recall anything no matter how major of issues which might incriminate her.

She cared about the Post Office as a Business entity, but nothing about the people working for it

People of her class suffer from a certain medical condition called Temporary Selective Convenient Dementia. It's tragic for everyone except themselves.

You can’t have 30k more post offices if your throwing the SPMS in prison, PV is a national disgrace.

The PO should pay back back all the court and lawyers fees the sub-postmasters and sub-mistresses have paid from their compensation.

"By their acts you will know them." To quote her own book at her.

People don't care about whether she has compassion. We want her in prison.

The only compassion she has is for her own neck, end of story.

Happy to have the salary and the bonuses but not happy to take the responsibility.

I watched her performance in the "dock" at the Enquiry last week. To me she came over as shifty, evasive and wholly unbelievable. Is she the most hated woman in Britain - I suspect she is?

She was clearly out of her depth. So much so she doesn’t understand how inept she is. The selection panel that recruited her to that position are also to blame

There were occasions when Vennells was shown emails written by her where she focused on one inappropriate word and said she regretted using that word. She failed to realize that it wasn't the use of individual words that was the problem, but that they betrayed an attitude, a stance.

I lost my office in 2000, after asking for Horizon to be removed. 24 years later I'm being offered 75k as I agreed to falsification of records to cover the 3k "missing" from my office, Thursday was a big day for allowances, people relied on me for their rent,food and other bills, if I didn't accept the loss I couldn't trade. I was still running another system that said I was £2.85 short. But they wouldn't listen

From Wikipedia: "In Jan 2023, the NFSP had 6727 members who operated approximately 9,300 post office branches." There were 11,634 post office branches in 2023. Over 900 sub postmasters have been prosecuted meaning she has overseen the prosecution of over 10% of their sub postmasters. The idea of 30,000 Post Offices is pure fantasy given they have been closing them down for decades. It is absurd that Vennels expresses regret when her actions were destroying the Post Office. Even more concerning is how many more cases have not reached the courts because of people sinking their life savings in to the Post Office and dying of heart attacks, strokes and suicide or quitting because they realised they had no option?

This will not be resolved until criminal cases are taken to court, otherwise this will only result in this Inquiry making platitudes and directors of large firms will get off with a rebuke and just be removed with a large severance! There are so many cases like this if there are no consequences to their actions why should they bother.

There was no compassion from Paula Vennells when she continued to orchestrate the Post Office's prosecution of sub postmasters and sub post mistresses long past the point at which it was clear that there were problems with the Horizon system that rendered those prosecutions and all prior convictions legally unsafe. Paula Vennells is being judged on what she did and how she behaved. She demonstrated no compassion then and deserves none, nor understanding, now.

Jail her.

Lives were destroyed on her watch, and she had knowledge. Disgraceful and it should be in court.

Narcissist playing the victim.. now theres a surprise!!

It's not compensation! It is the subpostmasters money that shuold be payed back immediately! Then they should get compensation for their losses and distresses as soon as posable!

To have such an (apparent) spike in criminality among previously honest postmasters and not correlate that with your new system would be an abject failure. To then launch a cover-up and keep doubling down on that cover-up till the bitter end .....

It's disgraceful that Mike Young is not testifying, being ''protected.''

Crying for herself not the people she shafted!

We know they have destroyed emails and documents. Seems like this one slipped through. Some she has said it doesn’t read like she meant. Wonder what some of the others were like.

she should be looking at prison time herself and the loss of all that bonus money she paid herself

It is not only the lawyers .. It is the judges in many of these cases. Shock breaches of disclosure rules being blighthly accepted by judges .. Time after time. The inquiry has to go after EVERY judge involved. After all they are the last bastion for the populace to rely on for fair trials and especially for control of prosecutors , otherwise out of control.

Self serving doesn't begin to start to describe her attitudes now and then.

I sense a great disturbance in the force. The narcissism is strong in this one.

She only made passive and general apologies such "im sorry for what they've gone through" or " im very aware I let people down" but when asked repeatedly on her obvious role in it she was only ever evasive. Sadly it looks unlikely she will ever face justice

She's certainly got that right.

She’s lying and it’s written all over her face.. send her to jail also that bully Bradshaw. Absolutely disgraceful, Vennels crying in self pity failure at the highest level possible. A man took his own life for crying out loud!!! JUSTICE needs to be held.

She knew what was happening but chose the course of action that she deemed best for POL on a corporate level. Coincidentally the course of action that enabled her to continue to be handsomely rewarded to the tune of more than £2,000,000 in bonuses alone. Her lapses in memory are laughably convenient and her tears are born of the weight of the scrutiny rather than regret about the pain she was instrumental in causing. 🤬🤬🤬

It must be asked, 'what did she do to get the job'!🤔

She was so deep in the Post Office that she wanted to keep it sacred and pure, so she could get millions in bonuses; at all costs. To quote Morpheus from The Matrix - 'And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.'

She cared about one thing and one thing ONLY. Herself! First, second and last. AND still does. She made, in 7 years, around £5 Million for HERSELF. She has got a VERY secure financial future with £5 Million in the bank, her victims, however, faced the exact opposite, and some even paid with their lives. She is sad that the truth has come out, not that she has empathy for her victims. 😡

She is a psychopath. It feels nothing

As long as she claims the money, she cannot claim to have compassion. She showed no mercy.

No we don’t. Perjury should lead to criminal charges, and does she deserve her gold plated index linked public pension!

Paula vennels shouldn't be allowed to think anything jail her

The wrong people went to prison; now it's time to put the record straight.

There’s a common theme running through both this and the infected blood scandal. It’s one of courage and leadership in these situations. So many of these people are faced with a choice between doing the right thing or of “going along to get along”. Invariably they choose the latter. They are paid and trusted to do the former

All the executives and investigators and solicitors have presented themselves to the inquiry as misled, poorly informed, the system was the problem, they were blind sighted, it was someone else to blame, information was withheld from them, they were not an IT person, they didn’t understand. But of course the email trails tell a different story of unmitigated aggression, bullying, intimidation and arrogance toward the sub-postmasters, a lack of concern for their well being and justice, a desire to protect the brand no matter the human cost in terms of unjustly ruined lives and a willingness to never properly investigate potential miscarriages of justice. One hopes the shambolic parade of deceit is met with police action, but the inquiry should go much further and consider the way the government, happy with the strangely impressive profits the PO were showing, were happy to accept the cover up, until the group action of post masters, along with The Guardian and assistance of some decent MPs from both main political parties ( notably not the Liberals) forced the truth to come out.

Gross incompetence, deliberate indifference, or outright malice. Whichever one it is, she has a lot to answer for.

If she had any compassion at all she should have done her job and brought this to light as soon as it became apparent to her at the time, regardless of any results. Everyone including the CEOs and the Post Office would have come out of this in a better light, and the post masters would have been proven innocent before imprisonment. Crocodile tears from someone who is more bothered about being found out than the injustice she proliferated.

You feelling is 100% correct ms Vennells

Women make great leaders. Such compassion and integrity. Inspiring...

I thought she took hints from Amber Heard on the crying but not really crying. Not one tear came out. Unless you can actually do that. I zoomed in on her face and also the tissues. I personally didn’t feel it was genuine but that’s just my opinion. She also smiled at very serious moments very inappropriately. Including one moment when talking about suicide (I can’t recall which bit). But a few times she smiled and I found it so bizarre. She did a lot of “eye-blocking” this is when people do very long blinks or close their eyes. It’s a body language clue for “I am not wanting to look at this issue”. Lastly, wow, she blamed a lot of people and it seemed very little filtered up to her knowing, hmmm…I overall felt she was cold and trying to save face. The fact she has position in the church makes any lies and deception even more hypocritical.

She's only crying becuase she got caught and her life is beginning to fall apart. I just hope she ends up with a custodial sentence for her blatant unprofessionalism and incompetence.

Crocodile tears - not sorry for what she did, just sorry she was caught out.

Before she named them she was very keen to state that she trusted them. So she's ok then. LoL

She's only fake crying now she know's shes busted. I bet she didn't share the same sympathy in the moment.

She's Lying Through her Teeth and she SHOULD be the First one in Court

The Post Inquiry is theatre for the masses. Will any of those responsible face a criminal trial?

Well no. We don’t believe her. We weren’t born yesterday. Maybe if she cried for those ruined lives, not her own she might get a grain of sympathy. But at the moment, while we’re footing the bill for her failures we have zero.

P.V. is a sociopath, she doesn't have any compassion.

For someone that used to be an Anglican Priest and a CoE ethics advisor makes her denial of personal culpability even worse. She is,apart from the Tory Party,one of the most hated figures in the UK and she acts like her cat got run over aww !

Many of them need prison, especially Vennells

Pointing the finger at 2 ppl she knows aren't giving evidence & Susan Crighton, who didn't realise Independent, was in inverted commas when she was asked about auditors. Also, why is Moya Greene not now giving evidence? Anything to do with the texts that got read out?

Once proven a liar - always a liar. No one believes anything she says . Whose fault is that? - HERS and only hers.

Her true personality became clear with her e mail conversation regarding the BBC programme was read out.

This woman Paula Vennells is typical of many people in these high positions, they do everything to get on & protect their image & will throw everyone & anyone "under the bus" to achieve that. Doing the right thing is waaaay down the order of priorities for these people - if it's considered at all. In the case of Paula Vennells she was virtue signalling as a part-time vicar & managed to ingratiate herself so well with the idiotic Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby that he allegedly wanted her to be Bishop of London ! You can't make this stuff up...

Great interviewer, one of the best I have seen.

She should be charged for deceiving the people and investors of the sale of the Royal Mail for her stance on withholding information and having a negative paragraph removed from the prospectus prior to the sale.

If she had compassion she wouldn’t have let the situation continue. Blinkered and only interested in saving herself. What a great believer!!

She showed no compassion for years. Are we expected to believe in a Damascene conversion? Has she vanished into an abbey and shaved her head?

From all of this...What is totally missing is a duty of care towards it's own employees. It does not come out anywhere. What Vennels lacks is involvement and this absence of care. Shocking Shocking.

Innocent people accused and ruined by a computer system that nobody seemed to be able to check 😮😮😮😮

I believe in her compassion . But I also believe she oversaw the wrongful convictions of about a thousand of her employees while extorting them for massive amounts of money. And she still hasn’t given them back the money. And I think that might be a crime. And she probably needs to do jail time. At least till they get their money back.

Good interview, same it was a bit short.

Mike Young can be found very easily

…she worked as hard as she could to deliver the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history - the pious Miss Paula Venereals.

Paula's compassion is for herself, her tears are for herself. At no stage was she worried about innocent people going to jail etc.

She should of been banned from using the phrase "The Post Office". She was the Post Office together with her senior management team and advisors. Be specific about who or if you can't be specific then it must be down to the CEO.... The Post Office is a corporate entity that cannot act independently of it's officers.

Crying her £££ not tears

Ms Vennells was being paid SO much money : 700, 000 before bonuses.

The sad part is, she's not the only one that should answer to this. Hopefully, all who were complicit with this and who failed to do the right thing will answer for it. Look at the bully from the PO security and is still working at the post office.

26 5 24, The Church oddly quiet about this matter ! Establishment Closing Ranks - P V was a regular Preacher. Curious to know her choice of Topics.

The key was the last e mail and the question Did the mask fall. Oh how it fell and showed exactly what she was thinking.

I'd love to see Richard Moorhead and Alan Bates side by side. I can't tell the difference.

The job of a chief executive is to be fully aware of everything that is going on in the organisation she is in charge of. That is why they are paid more than other people. Vennells should have paid particular attention to matters about which there was doubt. She did not. She should repay her salary for that period.

Who was responsible for the draconian SPMs contract 'which did not change' ? [ and/or the draconian way it was implemented ] And who was responsible for promoting or briefing the new CEO PV [even if it included self-learning] ? How much power or feasibility was there for anyone, even the CEO, to change the processes and culture enough to be more fair ? Maybe the inquiry will be asking this for the report. At least the PO is no longer allowed to prosecute. I dont suppose the inquiry will include how much the problem taps into corporate capitalism culture more generally; or education; intellectual, 'humanities' or business elitism and capitalist arrogance; or inequality or the historic class system in the UK.

Post offices are closing all over the country. I wouldn't trust her to sit the right way on the lavatory.

The Post Office actions were and are straight out of the National Coal Board playbook of the 1950s and 60s which led to the Aberfan disaster and the NCB's treatment of the families of the victims

Has the enquiry damaged her reputation and is she still employable. Just asking

She wasn't paid 3 million in bonuses for nothing, once again serving big business, not the people. To profess to be a Christian is ludicrous, another crook.

My old headmaster had similar, sneaky, little piggy eyes. He, too, was obnoxious, nasty, evil and vicious. I still carry the scars, as will many of the mistreated PO people.

Lock Her Up!!!!!

Don’t forget succesive government’s failings in all of this. They have a lot to answer for especially “New Labour”.

This is a really excellent choice of questions and answers from the ethical viewpoint. We really do have to focus on ethics v power . It's so wrong, right now..

Compassion she will go down in history as one of the worst humans ever lived. Her crying as we say here save the tears for your pillow

It's not that people don't believe her compassion, it's that we just don't believe her!

The one thing she has got right!

Not a solicitor, a barrister. One of His Majesty's counsel, learned in the law.