'This Is La-La Land Isn't It?' | Former Post Office Boss Paula Vennells Grilled At Horizon Inquiry

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24 күн бұрын

Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells has faced intense scrutiny from lawyers at the Post Office inquiry
On her third day of evidence at the inquiry, Ms Vennellls was grilled by Edward Henry KC, who represents several of the Post Office scandal victims.
Henry criticised Vennells' testimony to the inquiry
'This is la-la land, isn't it?', he says
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@pauli2169
@pauli2169 23 күн бұрын
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…….she is diverting, selective memory, responding with long rambling answers. If she does not go to prison then there is no justice in the UK.
@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt
@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt 23 күн бұрын
There IS NO JUSTICE. this is the uk. Wake up. Better justice in Korea……
@ArjunGhag-ix7te
@ArjunGhag-ix7te 23 күн бұрын
Starmer let off Jimmy Savile as proven by MoS expose' by Dan Hodges. Savile got away with it. Rich & woke get away with it a lot. So Will Vennells get a life sentance?
@custossecretus5737
@custossecretus5737 23 күн бұрын
There’ll be no justice because it will be claimed she would not get a fair trial, since it’s all being televised. Now find a jury who has not watched or developed an opinion on this case.
@MikeSmith-tx2lp
@MikeSmith-tx2lp 23 күн бұрын
She won’t. Part of the establishment, taking millions of public money for their own benefits. The world is full of them.
@MikeSmith-tx2lp
@MikeSmith-tx2lp 23 күн бұрын
@@custossecretus5737 agreed, and I think that’s been engineered as damage limitation by the government . The plebs see her squirming but to prison they ain’t going.
@simonmurphy1367
@simonmurphy1367 23 күн бұрын
I was the CEO but no one told me anything
@lexlayabout5757
@lexlayabout5757 23 күн бұрын
Like Bill Gates said when Microsoft was being investigated for monopoly practice in the 1990s. _"No-one told me, I didn't know, I can't remember."_ Sounded like a petty crook being questioned by the police. They are either liars or incompetent - take your pick.
@danielbate13
@danielbate13 23 күн бұрын
​@@lexlayabout5757incompetent liars
@marknaylor9394
@marknaylor9394 23 күн бұрын
bang on!! A CEO who knew nothing and was involved in nothing!!
@rjjcms1
@rjjcms1 23 күн бұрын
Never has credulity been stretched so far.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 күн бұрын
@@danielbate13 Highly competent liars.
@elfspicer
@elfspicer 23 күн бұрын
Put her in prison and seize her bonuses.
@nigelfarley814
@nigelfarley814 23 күн бұрын
And her salary and Pension.
@rjjcms1
@rjjcms1 23 күн бұрын
And the bonuses paid out to all the others whose deceit led to this abominable miscarriage of justice,who all should spend time in the clink as well.
@robertcook2572
@robertcook2572 23 күн бұрын
What laws has she broken?
@GGritsun
@GGritsun 23 күн бұрын
Perjury
@arnesaknussemm2427
@arnesaknussemm2427 23 күн бұрын
@@robertcook2572Conspiracy to defraud, and pervert the course of justice. Any more questions?
@r1bew42
@r1bew42 23 күн бұрын
Talk, talk and talk but she says absolutely nothing.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 күн бұрын
Why do you think she got her job in the first place? She's fulfilling her role as a corporate drone immaculately. Her tears on Day One were perfectly timed.
@johnenglish929
@johnenglish929 23 күн бұрын
Yes, she does. She says “guilty” !!!
@nickgoatham7981
@nickgoatham7981 23 күн бұрын
It's literally laboriously painful to listen to this arduous woman. All sympathy to the people who suffered for her wretchedness.
@ritab8663
@ritab8663 23 күн бұрын
Actually she cannot make a complete concise sentence, all is interjected with other sidetrack statements. It’s of no surprise that nothing was straightforward under her tenure
@nigelbaldwin752
@nigelbaldwin752 22 күн бұрын
Maybe saying nothing tells the most
@truth121
@truth121 23 күн бұрын
It's so obvious she's lying and covering up
@ololiver92
@ololiver92 23 күн бұрын
After taking the oath on the Bible, too!
@marythorpe928
@marythorpe928 23 күн бұрын
Lies , lies and more lies..
@lucaafc
@lucaafc 23 күн бұрын
She’s lying she scared to go prison
@stevenicol1
@stevenicol1 23 күн бұрын
@@ololiver92 the bible is a book of lies anyway.
@petercassidy0628
@petercassidy0628 23 күн бұрын
What was the government doing when all this scandal was being brought to the attention of the public from private eye and other media outlets . The whole post office senior management and directors during this scandal where all complicit in the cover up and must pay for this corruption people died" and went to prison ruined lives made bankrupt thru their lies and corruption.
@timleach3177
@timleach3177 23 күн бұрын
Shes just a liar , trying protect her own back , and her nice little fortune
@mystrength5640
@mystrength5640 23 күн бұрын
Part of her earnings should go to those affected!
@timleach3177
@timleach3177 23 күн бұрын
All of her earnings and more
@olias2716
@olias2716 23 күн бұрын
at one stage she was on over 13 grand a week.....nobody is worth that much.....power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely...
@82vitt
@82vitt 23 күн бұрын
@@olias2716 That's basic salary, isn't it. The proper earnings of all those CEOs are in bonuses, aren't they.
@82vitt
@82vitt 23 күн бұрын
@@thetruth9210 If there was even a slight chance of that happening, her accountant would be working on it day and night, so that legally she would appear to have not a broken penny to her name.
@bobphipps9
@bobphipps9 23 күн бұрын
How on earth did this woman ever become chief executive?
@lexlayabout5757
@lexlayabout5757 23 күн бұрын
Fast tracked to raise the female quota? My local postwoman is a stonger personality, and more honest I'm sure. Better looking too, but that's a very low hurdle.
@timgoodall636
@timgoodall636 23 күн бұрын
My very thought.
@woodenseagull1899
@woodenseagull1899 23 күн бұрын
It is so embarrassing to witness someone so poor, for even being considered for such a big job. Her appointment ' commitee ' must take the blame....Or were they setting her up for the inevitable fall ?.....
@michaelhipperson1554
@michaelhipperson1554 23 күн бұрын
Salary..£700,000 per annum or £14,000 per month.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 күн бұрын
Strange that anyone thinks that her performance here is one reason she got the job in the first place: to be a corporate drone at the highest level.
@grumpy-dad3701
@grumpy-dad3701 23 күн бұрын
It's not LA LA LAND. It's lie lie lie land
@serenityinside1
@serenityinside1 22 күн бұрын
😅. 👍
@billseymour-jones3224
@billseymour-jones3224 23 күн бұрын
Obfuscation, interminable word salads, little white lies, lies and enormous lies. Bloody hell...
@kirstennielsen4046
@kirstennielsen4046 23 күн бұрын
Except even hell will have troubles placing this minister.
@gordoncampbell100
@gordoncampbell100 23 күн бұрын
She`s had 5 years to practice her performance .Another fail .
@michaelmcginley7930
@michaelmcginley7930 13 күн бұрын
Amazing memory of fine details that bolsters her defence and no memory of anything that incriminate her.its disgusting.surely most people can see this
@0venchip
@0venchip 23 күн бұрын
She been told to give as long answers as possible to facilitate less questioning.
@EricTViking
@EricTViking 23 күн бұрын
What a load of corporate double-speak 🤦‍♂
@leroysimon5692
@leroysimon5692 23 күн бұрын
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
@jamesrussel1133
@jamesrussel1133 17 күн бұрын
I have worked in two large corporates and as many others will have experienced, there are frightening parallels with my own recollections of some of the worst standard practices of them, with their closing ranks when threatened, bullying, isolating individuals they see as a potential threat. This case will be studied for decades by business students to exemplify the very worst of bad management practice. There are lessons to be learnt by many corporates in the exposures of bad practice laid bare here, putting the benefit of the company way ahead of the rightful benefit of individuals working within it.
@raybrouitt2918
@raybrouitt2918 23 күн бұрын
It must be obvious to all that she has selective memory .
@jessy970
@jessy970 23 күн бұрын
Definitely, she has yet to admit what she really knew when and take account when she really knew. I feel really sorry for all the post masters😢
@michaelg3855
@michaelg3855 23 күн бұрын
Not at all surprising. Senior managers in most companies are chosen for their ability to obfuscate and to have a very flexible relationship with the truth.
@simmybear31
@simmybear31 23 күн бұрын
It seems all the PO managers have 'Dementia' level memory loss!
@williamoates1754
@williamoates1754 23 күн бұрын
Taking lessons from Nicola Sturgeon.
@HelenBlack-sn7ke
@HelenBlack-sn7ke 23 күн бұрын
Must have been something in the water at POL offices, they all have it.
@richardtaylor9851
@richardtaylor9851 23 күн бұрын
She & her cohorts should all be in Jail for 10 years
@dolceanstar
@dolceanstar 23 күн бұрын
With all assets seized!!!
@leroysimon5692
@leroysimon5692 23 күн бұрын
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
@Beatlefan67
@Beatlefan67 22 күн бұрын
Life!
@jimmyfaulkner5746
@jimmyfaulkner5746 21 күн бұрын
Capital punishment
@kylerb2
@kylerb2 23 күн бұрын
She's an expert at time wasting. Long, long irrelevant answers and "can you please repeat the question". If it was a game of football, there would be extra time.
@EdMcF1
@EdMcF1 23 күн бұрын
And two yellow cards for time-wasting = 1 red.
@charlesdale1462
@charlesdale1462 23 күн бұрын
Part of the legal game I'm afraid....
@sp-pz8uc
@sp-pz8uc 21 күн бұрын
Repeat the question is delaying tactic. So she has more time to come up with another lie.
@theearlofgrantham9816
@theearlofgrantham9816 23 күн бұрын
The real outrage is that it took a TV drama for there to be an outrage.
@MarySheridan-hl8bi
@MarySheridan-hl8bi 22 күн бұрын
Yes shocking and it prob would have still carried on 😢
@deirdreloughran8258
@deirdreloughran8258 19 күн бұрын
Yes agreed
@jonathanbender4691
@jonathanbender4691 23 күн бұрын
She talks as if she’s was not aware of anything that was going on in the company she was running yet earned a multi million pound salary with benefits. Incredible.
@jaybe2908
@jaybe2908 23 күн бұрын
She really earned that salary, they might as well had put a scarecrow in her office. When they tell us that these million pound salaries that CEO's get are justified and needed to attract the 'highest quality' candidates, remember this abysmal woman and her complete admission that she didn't have any input into the running of the company.
@rjjcms1
@rjjcms1 23 күн бұрын
One of many in this corporate gravy train culture.
@CuriousCrow-mp4cx
@CuriousCrow-mp4cx 23 күн бұрын
Aunt Sally Vennells is just a punching bag for a instutional system that's not what it claims to be. To limit this only to Vennells is to be distracted to the interlinked network of institutions that wanted this scandal buried.
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
If you believe what she is saying that is..
@meganm1074
@meganm1074 23 күн бұрын
The passivity is just being projected now, because she’s trying to avoid criminal prosecution.
@jaybe2908
@jaybe2908 23 күн бұрын
@@robertosborne7542 I get it that she is trying to distance herself from what she was responsible for, and that comes at the cost of making herself look incompetent. Much like most of the other people who have been questioned, but they can't have it both ways.
@simonpostle3327
@simonpostle3327 23 күн бұрын
Firstly they should seize the £5.1 million she was paid.
@CalTheKiwi1
@CalTheKiwi1 22 күн бұрын
Even if govt could do that, her lawyer will have already protected her cash and assets. If she has broken actual laws the Police and CPS will force her into a trial, and she might be jailed. For me, I’d prefer she was heavily fined. Jails are full, 3 yrs of community service would be better. She’s a corporate player, she’d be comfortable in jail.
@roswilliams2899
@roswilliams2899 19 күн бұрын
@@CalTheKiwi1 It's not just jails are full but WE pay those bills. I object to paying for her food and accommodation and perks in jail. In spite of her incompetence she got outrageous salary and bonuses and must return ALL of that towards paying for her jail term. and same for all the others who'll be jailed and what's left over must go towards the compensations. As for protecting her cash, if it can't be got at, she will have to work her jail term and work after to pay back her debts and ditto the rest of them. Jail shouldn't be lazy fun.
@Ianmundo
@Ianmundo 23 күн бұрын
She should be in prison, the miscarriage of justice occurred because of she suppressed evidence of a problem with Horizon despite the warnings
@alastairwallace6153
@alastairwallace6153 23 күн бұрын
Literally talking crap and lying on the spot
@leroysimon5692
@leroysimon5692 23 күн бұрын
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
@user-cl7ub8ft6x
@user-cl7ub8ft6x 23 күн бұрын
So she was mislead by her lawyers, blah, blah! The blame game shamefully played out together with excuses! However she was the CEO of the Post so has full responsibility for what happened on her watch! Paid a fortune for not doing her job! Dreadful woman!
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 күн бұрын
She is _doing_ her job which is to protect the Post Office not its postmasters whom she, and it, despise.
@Coneman3
@Coneman3 23 күн бұрын
Yes, the problem with corporations is the job of the CEO is to maximise profit. That’s it. There’s only corporate/societal responsibility if it affects profits and is a company target.
@roswilliams2899
@roswilliams2899 19 күн бұрын
She thinks it's all someone else's fault.
@24389234
@24389234 23 күн бұрын
With a memory like hers she should have been discharged on medical grounds.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
perhaps its early onset d
@roswilliams2899
@roswilliams2899 19 күн бұрын
Most of them seem to have Alzheimers. No wonder the PO is such a mess - Alzeimers employing more Alzheimers.
@Sm-iw2vh
@Sm-iw2vh 23 күн бұрын
She’d make a good politician. Corrupt and a rambling liar.
@mochan8447
@mochan8447 23 күн бұрын
In Italian there a saying: “le figlie di Maria sono le prime a darla via” which roughly translates to: “the most pious are the most bigoted”.
@Royboy50
@Royboy50 23 күн бұрын
Liars blink profusely,watch her blink
@briandouglas2123
@briandouglas2123 23 күн бұрын
It's not normal to blink that much.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
yes i picked up on that
@carolandersen3373
@carolandersen3373 23 күн бұрын
Sure sign of trying to cover her tracks
@GPTechno
@GPTechno 22 күн бұрын
Absolute Narcissism
@frannyp46
@frannyp46 21 күн бұрын
@royboy50. I would love to see an analysis of these frauds done by body language experts.
@24321619
@24321619 23 күн бұрын
''THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS'' any cleric should know that.
@MM.-qo7pk
@MM.-qo7pk 23 күн бұрын
She was using the church as a smoke screen to deceive the public and the world
@jjptech
@jjptech 23 күн бұрын
She went from "I can't remember this and that" to remember an audit process and the finnest details and reasoning behind that. Impressive the mental gymnastics
@spaceo8568
@spaceo8568 23 күн бұрын
This is why waiting YEARS to sort through all this is such a bad idea. "I don't remember " "I don't recall" blah blah blah. Well, if you don't remember, that doesn't help your case. WHERE DID ALL THE "STOLEN" MONEY GO? Has no one looked into the financial records of this gash? What's worse is, no one is gonna go to jail for any of this. No one.
@revd.phillipwallace-pugh9955
@revd.phillipwallace-pugh9955 23 күн бұрын
This is just an enquiry. Hopefully things will be handed over to the CPS to decide if there are criminal charges worth pursuing. Hopefully so.
@davidbarlow350
@davidbarlow350 23 күн бұрын
Same with covid inquiry. Drag it out for years ,exonerate all those involved and make the lawyers very rich.
@lucaafc
@lucaafc 23 күн бұрын
So your saying she stole money 😂😂😂😂
@wickedwitchoftheeast88
@wickedwitchoftheeast88 23 күн бұрын
​@@revd.phillipwallace-pugh9955 the CPS and the police will do fuck all about it they're also corrupt and rotten to the core and often piss in the same pot as people like Vennells
@abbx022
@abbx022 21 күн бұрын
All the “stolen” money went into a special account that was for unaccounted money …
@skooshy621
@skooshy621 23 күн бұрын
This woman embodies how a position of power and wealth can be gained from years of perfecting torrents of articulate-SOUNDING, but hollow, blart in a posh accent.
@williamweb9782
@williamweb9782 21 күн бұрын
@skooshy621 Yes it is amazing how far you can get in life if you can talk a good game. I suppose it is salesmsnship!
@wakeupuk3860
@wakeupuk3860 23 күн бұрын
She got an awful lot of money for not 'recalling very much she did when a CEO.
@cathrynhesketh5703
@cathrynhesketh5703 23 күн бұрын
What makes my blood boil.is that if there hadn't been that programme made these evil twisted people would still be doing their best to cover it up
@richardsims5158
@richardsims5158 23 күн бұрын
Which is also a pretty big black mark on our media, this should have been front page news ages ago
@kevinstevens8216
@kevinstevens8216 23 күн бұрын
The fact she got the Chairman's warning makes me hopeful she is a target for the police investigation. She lied to parliament via the select committee and has admitted that so that a criminal offence.
@MrGavinBoyd
@MrGavinBoyd 23 күн бұрын
Is this just theatre for the masses? Will any of those responsible go to prison?
@styuggs
@styuggs 23 күн бұрын
Unfortunately not
@SC-tl3px
@SC-tl3px 23 күн бұрын
Yep. Nope.
@derekrobinson5554
@derekrobinson5554 23 күн бұрын
It's only an inquiry, not court.
@lucaafc
@lucaafc 23 күн бұрын
She’s going prison
@leroysimon5692
@leroysimon5692 23 күн бұрын
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
@Lyndalewinder
@Lyndalewinder 23 күн бұрын
What do you mean I was the CEO - I don't recall ever being told that I was a CEO......
@rogergalley3572
@rogergalley3572 23 күн бұрын
If she doesn’t get locked up, it just proves my theory , the whole lot of them The judiciary in this country from top to bottom are rotten to the core.
@russputin6294
@russputin6294 22 күн бұрын
It's the Old Boys Brigade. Is it coincidence that Sir Kier Starmer claimed he couldn't find enough evidence to prosecute Sir Jimmy Saville who just happened to be best mates with paedophile royalty?
@hughgrection5674
@hughgrection5674 23 күн бұрын
How do pathological liars get such positions of authority? Poor vetting? Or just money and favours 🤔
@lat1419
@lat1419 23 күн бұрын
It's a select club. Self selecting self serving club. It is an echo chamber of these types on a merry go round of well paid "jobs" tgat are nithing more than seat warming.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
its just part of the requirements for the job
@wickedwitchoftheeast88
@wickedwitchoftheeast88 23 күн бұрын
People like Vennells normally befriend senior managers, kiss their arses and show they are good at their jobs so the managers then see and think they have a friend and thats where it goes wrong being friends with your subordinates leads to favouritism and loyalty so these people get promotions because of that whilst more competent employees who don't arse kiss their way up get overlooked. I've seen it many times poisonous and incompetent people befriend the managers for an easy time and utter cunts to their colleagues then they get promoted and you see their true colours
@thebeesnuts777
@thebeesnuts777 22 күн бұрын
It's easier to get a women to bend, the love of money 🤑 and I'm speaking in general
@alisonrichards7406
@alisonrichards7406 22 күн бұрын
Requirement of the position.
@michaelmaycock5655
@michaelmaycock5655 23 күн бұрын
She would make a great politician, she rarely answers the question asked and can naturally lie without showing any signs that she is. Who'd player her at poker 🤷‍♂️
@paulburton8264
@paulburton8264 23 күн бұрын
She is so good at weasel words.
@mikefryer5917
@mikefryer5917 23 күн бұрын
IF and it is a big IF any compensation is paid out to these poor unfortunate Sub-Postmasters then not a single penny should come from the British taxpayer. It should come from the people responsible and Fujitsu!
@sallywright8065
@sallywright8065 23 күн бұрын
Compensation should be paid on top of the money that was stolen from the postmasters, it was theft, plain and simple.
@Woofersgalore
@Woofersgalore 23 күн бұрын
and tax free
@karlmylnere5712
@karlmylnere5712 22 күн бұрын
​@@Woofersgaloreone would hope so but knowing the nature of HMRC they will try to stick their greasy fingers in any cash that passes to the postmasters.
@Woofersgalore
@Woofersgalore 22 күн бұрын
@@karlmylnere5712 I know, all we can do is hope. 🤞🤞🤞🤞
@kevind6956
@kevind6956 23 күн бұрын
I’ve never known an organisations where nobody knew anything that was going on. We all know they knew & were involved in a cover up and a scam. It’s absolutely shocking seeing these people blatantly lying.
@_Ben4810
@_Ben4810 23 күн бұрын
I think there needs to be an investigation & audit into who were the board of people/advisors/recruiters who suggested, interviewed, rated & ultimately approved this woman for the role of CEO of a national institution such as the Post Office. I now feel they also should be held accountable for appointing this truly incompetent & awful woman.
@davidkidd3975
@davidkidd3975 23 күн бұрын
Straight out of Tony Blair's bullshit school
@jamescoburn6789
@jamescoburn6789 23 күн бұрын
The bonkers thing, is that someone wakes up next to that every morning and doesn't ring Ghostbusters to hoover it up.
@gadfageyar
@gadfageyar 23 күн бұрын
WHY IS IT PEOPLE IN CHARGE HAVE SUCH BAD MEMORIES??
@dovetonsturdee7033
@dovetonsturdee7033 23 күн бұрын
I simply cannot remember. Who am I again, by the way?
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
Because its convinient
@mikedavis-kp1sx
@mikedavis-kp1sx 23 күн бұрын
Money
@meganm1074
@meganm1074 23 күн бұрын
Because at this stage the goal is to avoid being criminally prosecuted.
@leskaighin8903
@leskaighin8903 23 күн бұрын
Legal advice, if you can't recall the details clearly and there is no written proof then you can't remember, unless the incomplete memory you recall is helpful to your case.
@Jim-iw1yd
@Jim-iw1yd 23 күн бұрын
She never knew? She never heard any rumours? Whispers? Suspicions? Questions which needed answered, especially by the top person supposedly in charge ? . . . Surely beyond belief !
@teresabrown2098
@teresabrown2098 23 күн бұрын
But nobody knew, nobody can remember, everybody covering their own bk sides
@molybdomancer195
@molybdomancer195 23 күн бұрын
They knew because Computer Weekly outlined the issues but they decided to write it off as a trade magazine that didn’t know what it was talking about. How they decided an IT trade magazine didn’t know about IT based on their own lack of knowledge escapes me
@chrissybee18
@chrissybee18 23 күн бұрын
She talks so much whilst saying so little! I'm surprised she didn't become an MP the way she lies!
@nigelfarley814
@nigelfarley814 22 күн бұрын
Looking at this shambles it’s probably next on her list.
@annawildsville
@annawildsville 23 күн бұрын
Word salad
@2412Bec
@2412Bec 23 күн бұрын
I just dont understand... when you obviously knew the system was effecting even a small number of postoffics ..... why would one proceed to criminal court and threats to your loyal employees? Why not, finish the investigation and prove the guilt or innocent before ""YOU" reveleased the worst kind of mental TORTURE on these innocent people. Shame on you
@glendanatalia1
@glendanatalia1 23 күн бұрын
and she was considered to be the next London archbishop.......
@hubertbreidenbach
@hubertbreidenbach 23 күн бұрын
I've been waiting to see any reference to her involvement in the Church. I could NOT believe anyone chosing to "Make a mission of providing salvation, except for those rotting in jail on my account".
@roblewis226
@roblewis226 23 күн бұрын
She seems to have relied on 'faith' in every aspect of her life. The more I hear about the Post Office the more it sounds like a cult. She drank the koolaid.
@Skiddins
@Skiddins 23 күн бұрын
At least if that came true, she could only do ‘damage’ to those who believe in sky fairies.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
shows the calibre required
@leroysimon5692
@leroysimon5692 23 күн бұрын
@@stitchlover633 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
@nosemellon
@nosemellon 23 күн бұрын
I'm trying to find an adjective that sits somewhere between incompetent and f****** abysmal.
@GreenWhitePurple
@GreenWhitePurple 23 күн бұрын
The word is”liar”
@alanthomson1227
@alanthomson1227 23 күн бұрын
In future her name will be in all dictionaries synonymous with your description
@James_Bowie
@James_Bowie 23 күн бұрын
The word you're seeking is vennellish.
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
I dont believe she was incompetant,this is an act.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
what about dire
@LtD973
@LtD973 23 күн бұрын
Not just her. That whole board need jail. Every single one of them have covered up. The truth, THE WHOLE TRUTH and nothing but the truth. This means not lying that “I can’t recall” “I don’t remember” THE WHOLE TRUTH!
@MarySheridan-hl8bi
@MarySheridan-hl8bi 22 күн бұрын
Absolutely agree!
@roswilliams2899
@roswilliams2899 19 күн бұрын
And they all took the oath to reply honestly at this enquiry. So they are all breaking their solemn oath. Did Vennells also swear "so help me God". If she did, she's in REAL trouble with her god because she can't say to HIM that he didn't help her.... . You see her illogic.
@mac-vl4ib
@mac-vl4ib 23 күн бұрын
Blink blink blink the sign of a liar
@garrydean8670
@garrydean8670 20 күн бұрын
She is a liar but the blink,blink theory is complete rubbish.. people can do it through anxiety and stress it doesn't mean their lying.. psychopaths and sociapaths can tell complete lies without blinking an eye..
@markllewellyn3925
@markllewellyn3925 23 күн бұрын
Nobody seems to be asking who was doing the remote accessing? What was their motivation? Where did the money go????
@dovetonsturdee7033
@dovetonsturdee7033 23 күн бұрын
Good point. The question of why did Fujitsu behave in this manner hasn't been addressed at all. Hopefully, it will be when some Fujitsu creatures eventually give evidence.
@edwardalexander9486
@edwardalexander9486 23 күн бұрын
Exactly. Nobody seems to be addressing this fact.
@grahamf695
@grahamf695 23 күн бұрын
Remote access is entirely normal in this kind of system. You couldn't possibly manage a network of 11,500 branches without it. All banks and retailers have the same capability. The problem is that the remote access was done using the sub postmaster's account and there was no audit trail of the access.
@meganm1074
@meganm1074 23 күн бұрын
It seems there wasn’t actually any missing money. The bugs just made it seem there was.
@defendermodsandtravels
@defendermodsandtravels 23 күн бұрын
@@grahamf695 There's a difference between remote access to maintain and update the system and to change or add data. The latter should have been inaccessible.
@TabsT-vy5jy
@TabsT-vy5jy 23 күн бұрын
Now she knows how it feels getting grilled hard surrounded by people.
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 күн бұрын
We'll never see her in public answering questions again after this. It's a small price for her to pay compared to what her organisation did to the postmasters.
@TabsT-vy5jy
@TabsT-vy5jy 23 күн бұрын
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx alas, I doubt she will ever see the inside of a prison cell. Look at grenfell
@wickedwitchoftheeast88
@wickedwitchoftheeast88 23 күн бұрын
​@@TabsT-vy5jy Exactly. Vennells and the MP's all piss in the same pot. She'll be allowed to keep her millions and her pensions of course but the subpostmasters will get a small fraction of what Vennells earned and got through deception and dishonesty
@steveforest8385
@steveforest8385 22 күн бұрын
Without having to face any consequences...yet.
@ianbrown-zw8pz
@ianbrown-zw8pz 23 күн бұрын
Will ANYONE responsible for ANY of this dreadful affair EVER TELL THE TRUTH? I fear not, thus making the ENTIRE PROCESS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY! Even more important WILL ANYONE BE BROUGHT TO BOOK?
@shanehumberstone5262
@shanehumberstone5262 23 күн бұрын
Royal Mail started being full on dodgy when Adam crozier joined,tax dodges galore,millions of wasted money etc
@raybridges1927
@raybridges1927 23 күн бұрын
Lies, lies and yet more lies. Lock her up!!!
@matthewmoore6647
@matthewmoore6647 23 күн бұрын
Why has this women not been arrested?
@garrysims1675
@garrysims1675 22 күн бұрын
Should this woman escape prosecution, we must all then agree that we have a Two-Tier judicial system in this country. She should be jailed.
@stevebourne3073
@stevebourne3073 23 күн бұрын
I feel SORRY for the Anglican Church, I did not think they would like a PRIEST to OBVIOUS show them up in such a POOR light .Personally I think she has LIED through her teeth and should be DE-FROCKED before being sent to PRISON for all the harm she oversaw
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
Welby is cut from a similar cloth to her-why feel sorry for an institution which employed such an incompetant liar?
@brianlopez8855
@brianlopez8855 23 күн бұрын
It didn't stop Justin getting the top job !
@lukerutter6755
@lukerutter6755 22 күн бұрын
Not like a priest to lie ask the choir boys
@MrJimbaloid
@MrJimbaloid 23 күн бұрын
Come on everybody YES the target is now her but how many very bad people who we're complicit in this are going to get away scott free unless this is kept up. It's much bigger than just her.
@alanthomson1227
@alanthomson1227 23 күн бұрын
True , but let’s not us get her out of our sights .
@jabezhane
@jabezhane 23 күн бұрын
They will ALL get away with it. If one of the top folks goes down for this, it sets a precedent for every Boss and CEO in the corporate elite to be vulnerable and repsonsible for their actions. They cannot have that.
@JHatLpool
@JHatLpool 23 күн бұрын
You are absolutely correct.
@andrewharrison1194
@andrewharrison1194 23 күн бұрын
But she should not get away from the fact that she was responsible for the PO precisely at the time that innocent people were being convicted. She has no excuses. She was paid extremely well to do a job that, clearly, she was not capable of doing.
@isabelwilkie9606
@isabelwilkie9606 21 күн бұрын
The Buck stops with her that’s what she got paid plenty for . Yes the others down the line are all to blame as well and each and every one of them has to pay all the money they got in bonuses and perks. As what they got was all stolen !!!
@stephenhoneyman9743
@stephenhoneyman9743 23 күн бұрын
How can someone of such incompetence hold such a position?
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
Its an act,she surely must have known what was going on and went along with it.
@memyself717
@memyself717 23 күн бұрын
Connections, went to the "right" school. Etc etc.
@grahamkearnon6682
@grahamkearnon6682 23 күн бұрын
She seems to be able to pass the buck rather easily, when cornered the response is " can't remember" or tears. Clearly her CV should now include 'actress'.
@railworker8058
@railworker8058 23 күн бұрын
“I didn’t know” over and over again! Ignorance, even if this is true, is no defence!
@johnredman2065
@johnredman2065 23 күн бұрын
Just like wee Jimmy cranky 🙈
@BenDorm
@BenDorm 23 күн бұрын
Paula Vennels knew about remote access to the Sub Postmaster’s computers at the same time as Angela Van Den Bogead. That was December 2010.
@bobtudbury8505
@bobtudbury8505 23 күн бұрын
proceeds of crime , she needs to hand back her lump sum, minimum.
@mirjamwillemsen900
@mirjamwillemsen900 23 күн бұрын
It is not only La-La Land but also Bla-Bla Land
@venenareligioest410
@venenareligioest410 23 күн бұрын
Royal Mail are a disgrace since privatisation, when you watch Poirot you see they got two deliveries a day for 1p, now it’s costs £1.25 per stamp and they deliver when it bloody well suits them! 🤣
@D4SSuk
@D4SSuk 22 күн бұрын
This isn't about Royal Mail, it is about The Post Office, two totally seperate businesses.
@venenareligioest410
@venenareligioest410 22 күн бұрын
@@D4SSuk I know, I was talking specifically about Royal Mail though.
@chrismoore7606
@chrismoore7606 16 күн бұрын
What does that have to do with this inquiry? They split from the PO in 2012 and were privatised in 2013. Have you noticed how much other things have gone up since Poirot was knocking about? You know he's made up right?
@gherkamum
@gherkamum 23 күн бұрын
I loved the post-office and the large salary i was on........Ive just covered my own back
@susanmarch1661
@susanmarch1661 23 күн бұрын
I loved the Post Office because they thought I was worthy of the job.
@ChrispyNut
@ChrispyNut 23 күн бұрын
LOL. 'We were all chuffed with the quality of the audit that highlighted a litany of problem, some of which extremely severe'. Fix problems? Nah. Acknowledge there are problems which support people's assertions they're not crooks? Nah. Cover everything up to "protect the institution"? Absolutely, 💯 The irritating thing is, this is pretty much the case for most big businesses these days, rotten to core, with most revenue going to PR & Marketing to keep it all looking perfect.
@Lui-894
@Lui-894 23 күн бұрын
I don’t recall I don’t recall? What did she get paid for to be CEO , I bet she can recall what she has in her bank accounts.
@Frithogar
@Frithogar 23 күн бұрын
The English government will never prosecute her. That she has to squirm in public will be deemed sufficient punishment.
@augnkn93043
@augnkn93043 21 күн бұрын
English?
@Tony-xg4uw
@Tony-xg4uw 23 күн бұрын
Ok. The computer was removing payments that the post masters were depositing into Royal Mail Accounts. SO... Where has that money gone. Who took it ???? Were they taking it and then sharing it out ? FOLLOW THE MONEY.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
i didnt get any only joking its a good question
@alantattersall4487
@alantattersall4487 23 күн бұрын
Can one of the KC’s please ask her what the job of a CEO is, and remind her of Harry Truman’s ‘The Buck Stops Here’ ? If she was going to be as amenable as she claims she was to any suggestion from anywhere then she should never have taken the job. But she says she DID ask questions. Where are they, then ? Where are the e-mails with those questions in them ?
@meganm1074
@meganm1074 23 күн бұрын
@thetruth9210 I’m a lawyer. The lawyers are doing very well. Especially Mr Beer, who is brilliant, but others too. It’s an inquiry, where the main goal is to get her evidence out, whether it’s lies or truth, to get her to answer questions & give her version. It might look like they’re not pinning her down, but it’s just that they stop when she has given her position & held it after being confronted with the opposing facts/arguments. They don’t need to call her a liar every time. Later the inquiry judge will assess her evidence & credibility against all the other evidence & documents.
@davidkidd3975
@davidkidd3975 23 күн бұрын
She was the creator and so destroyed lots of evidence skip loads very scheming but to the average joe just full of shite
@alantattersall4487
@alantattersall4487 23 күн бұрын
@@meganm1074Yes, I agree the lawyers are doing very well, particularly Jason Beer and Sir Edward Henry. And I understand the situation they are in - it’s a public enquiry, not a court of law. What I was getting at was that she was the CEO of the Post Office, which made her responsible whether she likes it or not. I saw elsewhere that she said that,even as CEO, she wasn’t responsible for everything that happened underneath her, or words to that effect. If that were true, it would merely support her position (which, as far as I can see, every senior member of the Post Office who has been questioned has adopted) that everything that went wrong was someone else’s fault, because she didn’t know or didn’t have the necessary expertise or hadn’t been told. It was her job to know, and also to ask some pointed questions rather than just fling out a few ineffectual ones and then go along with whatever she was told. Before retirement I worked for some very senior people in the police service, and none of them would have accepted some of the things she accepted without asking some very serious questions. I wasn’t seriously suggesting the KC’s should ask her what she thought the job of a CEO was, but I would have been very interested to hear just what she thinks it is !
@TimothyBergin
@TimothyBergin 23 күн бұрын
This woman has selective memory problems, think she has been talking to sturgeon.
@JugglinJellyTake01
@JugglinJellyTake01 23 күн бұрын
The scope of the use of remote access to move money out of post office accounts is irrelevant, there should be no access to accounts by remote access.
@mikedavis-kp1sx
@mikedavis-kp1sx 23 күн бұрын
The DWP has a system in place that they use all the time.
@cardinalnight3883
@cardinalnight3883 23 күн бұрын
This is all down to Privatisation. Over and over again we see the problems of this.
@franc9111
@franc9111 23 күн бұрын
Absolutely right.
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
Agreed-aside from BA its hard to think of anything that wouldnt be better in the hands of the govt.It was a total scam from the start-national assets paid for by generations of taxpayers sold off because Thatcher thought a property /share owning society would naturally vote for the Cons.
@Bluefastcar
@Bluefastcar 23 күн бұрын
Post Office was not ever privatised. It was in all intense and purposes a government department, funded entirely by the taxpayer.
@jonathanstephenson3964
@jonathanstephenson3964 23 күн бұрын
Quite the opposite. It wasn’t privatised and so didn’t enjoy the usual scrutinisation that private companies do at shareholder’s meetings etc
@cardinalnight3883
@cardinalnight3883 23 күн бұрын
in October 2015, the government sold its remaining 15%, finalising the total privatisation of Royal Mail
@dwightmark3288
@dwightmark3288 23 күн бұрын
This in infuriating, this needs jail, they hounded people
@brightspark4817
@brightspark4817 7 күн бұрын
she was shown carrying mailbags .she needs to be shown sowing them up in prison
@cp4512
@cp4512 22 күн бұрын
Trying to take zero accountability when everyone knows it’s standard practice that the CEO is accountable. The CEO knows what is going on and takes the biggest pay cheque home.
@therealspixycat
@therealspixycat 23 күн бұрын
Was she working in the canteen serving coffee and sandwiches?
@josephinedewar4469
@josephinedewar4469 22 күн бұрын
No- not competent enough!
@wakeupuk3860
@wakeupuk3860 23 күн бұрын
Having now seen her in action and with 16 years of being a teacher (from industry) dealing with inner city kids whose very instinct and natural reaction was to lie, blame every one else but themselves, pause so they can think of an excuse, blink continuously and most of all truly believe they have done nothing wrong. A classic example, I once caught a girl of 15 in front of a class I was about to teach, writing on my white board something extremely rude about me, who after watching her do it, on turning around on seeing me, drop the felt tip and without thinking said "It wasn't me!" The DEA and Teacher Training Colleges should use these video of Vennells to teach new teachers how to spot the classic signs of a LIAR and a person in total denial they did any wrong. The thing is as with psychopaths which I believe in truth she really is, their total inability even with a wealth of examples, an avalanche of evidence, public's reaction to her when she leaves to go home and possibly she reads all the comments in the KZfaqs STILL believes she did nothing wrong and was not her fault.
@stitchlover633
@stitchlover633 23 күн бұрын
she is in the same mould as hilary clinton and bill
@alanrogers9597
@alanrogers9597 23 күн бұрын
get her charged for at least perjury & PCJ ,,,, then let Mr Henry loose !!!!
@daveg1683
@daveg1683 21 күн бұрын
These establishment narcissists can lie, can't they..🤬
@cleebe823
@cleebe823 23 күн бұрын
You see, these people get paid massive amounts to know and do nothing. That's why the poor need to swallow the cost of inflation. How else would these types pay themselves higher salaries and bigger bonuses?
@sugarfree1894
@sugarfree1894 23 күн бұрын
When disinterested minds start asking questions, people up to their necks in obfuscation, denial and partial truth struggle so eloquently.
@patbhukkanasut7772
@patbhukkanasut7772 23 күн бұрын
“I am a dumb ass defense “ 👏👏👏
@joyplummeridge6940
@joyplummeridge6940 23 күн бұрын
I have a question, which may seem a bit dim, if so i apologise. The post office accounts could be accessed directly by Fujitsu, the money, has anyone ever checked to see if Fujitsu staff were filtering this money? This may go some way to explain where it all went.
@williamweb9782
@williamweb9782 23 күн бұрын
@joyplummeridge6940 Yes this is true. The PO can do themselves a favour by carrying out a full audit of fujitsu staff or can they?
@meganm1074
@meganm1074 23 күн бұрын
I don’t think money actually went missing? It was the bugs/remote access that made it appear that money was missing.
@josephinedewar4469
@josephinedewar4469 22 күн бұрын
​@@meganm1074 But the submasters paid their own money to plug the supposed gaps. Where their money go ??
@rjs_698
@rjs_698 21 күн бұрын
​@@josephinedewar4469- into the Post Office's profits - which is why no-one, from the Government down through the Post Office's directors, asked any questions.
@extrude22
@extrude22 20 күн бұрын
You have a misunderstanding. We are not talking about bank accounts, we are talking about a system which says "you have £x in the safe". Fujitsu can only change how much money the system thinks is in the safe. They cannot transfer money to other places as it is physical cash.
@hovishill2779
@hovishill2779 23 күн бұрын
Funny how she can remember some things vividly from 10 or more years ago, but finds it difficult to remember or recall 🙄 important relevant things that are key to getting down to who is to blame for this outrageous, scandalous and damm right criminal actions by all involved.
@bob23301
@bob23301 23 күн бұрын
They are all liars and all played their part in what happened toball those innocent people, then when they came to understand they were all wrong, they attempted to hid it all......,.all involved should be charged and end up in court, just as they did to all the innocent postmasters they did that to.
@dereklyons1533
@dereklyons1533 23 күн бұрын
No one in authority in this case will go to prison.
@Scott-up3bq
@Scott-up3bq 21 күн бұрын
There's always hope mate
@bernardh9994
@bernardh9994 23 күн бұрын
At the end of the day, she will be genuinely sorry, but she will return to her very-pleasant-lifestyle and the ex PO postmasters will have to deal with the negative long term consequenses. It's how the system is set up - the wealthier you are, the better protected you are. It's the core of toryism.
@andielines
@andielines 23 күн бұрын
If this is the standard of the rest of the clergy then god help us.
@robertosborne7542
@robertosborne7542 23 күн бұрын
She quit-doubt the CoE would have her back anyway,too toxic.
@valeriecherylirving4048
@valeriecherylirving4048 23 күн бұрын
I don’t recall … here we go the usual playbook !! Liar !
@rosso2017
@rosso2017 21 күн бұрын
This type of behaviour in ‘public office’ needs to be a specific offence heavily punished by jail time. Too many of these types of scandals occurring
@johnmorris5198
@johnmorris5198 23 күн бұрын
Anything to deflect from her criminal activity. Let's hope justice prevails. She never gave any consideration to the postmasters - they were all guilty.
@Johnjoization
@Johnjoization 23 күн бұрын
How has collective amnesia and blatant denial of facts & documented evidence become the default defence of people in high office? Vennells, Johnson, Sunak, Hancock, etc are a national disgrace and have brought shame on this country. What a truly awful example to our children growing up, to show that financial gain can be procured not through honest hard labour, but by being a liar, corrupt and Incompetent.
@davidavery3048
@davidavery3048 23 күн бұрын
Prison must await.
@maidmarion2976
@maidmarion2976 23 күн бұрын
She gives me the creeps. Particularly the calm voice which says nothing.
@Foldy435
@Foldy435 23 күн бұрын
The woman at the front is thinking about how much she loves her cats.
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