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

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  • Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
  • 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 дні тому +700

    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 дні тому

      There IS NO JUSTICE. this is the uk. Wake up. Better justice in Korea……

    • @ArjunGhag-ix7te
      @ArjunGhag-ix7te 23 дні тому +1

      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 дні тому +37

      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 дні тому

      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 дні тому

      @@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 дні тому +363

    I was the CEO but no one told me anything

    • @lexlayabout5757
      @lexlayabout5757 23 дні тому +25

      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 дні тому +12

      ​@@lexlayabout5757incompetent liars

    • @marknaylor9394
      @marknaylor9394 23 дні тому +17

      bang on!! A CEO who knew nothing and was involved in nothing!!

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 23 дні тому +16

      Never has credulity been stretched so far.

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 дні тому +8

      @@danielbate13 Highly competent liars.

  • @elfspicer
    @elfspicer 23 дні тому +357

    Put her in prison and seize her bonuses.

    • @nigelfarley814
      @nigelfarley814 23 дні тому +21

      And her salary and Pension.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 23 дні тому +19

      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 дні тому

      What laws has she broken?

    • @GGritsun
      @GGritsun 23 дні тому +9

      Perjury

    • @arnesaknussemm2427
      @arnesaknussemm2427 23 дні тому +14

      @@robertcook2572Conspiracy to defraud, and pervert the course of justice. Any more questions?

  • @r1bew42
    @r1bew42 23 дні тому +406

    Talk, talk and talk but she says absolutely nothing.

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 дні тому +18

      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 дні тому +7

      Yes, she does. She says “guilty” !!!

    • @nickgoatham7981
      @nickgoatham7981 23 дні тому +18

      It's literally laboriously painful to listen to this arduous woman.
      All sympathy to the people who suffered for her wretchedness.

    • @ritab8663
      @ritab8663 23 дні тому +7

      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 дні тому +1

      Maybe saying nothing tells the most

  • @truth121
    @truth121 23 дні тому +366

    It's so obvious she's lying and covering up

    • @ololiver92
      @ololiver92 23 дні тому +10

      After taking the oath on the Bible, too!

    • @marythorpe928
      @marythorpe928 23 дні тому +8

      Lies , lies and more lies..

    • @lucaafc
      @lucaafc 23 дні тому +4

      She’s lying she scared to go prison

    • @stevenicol1
      @stevenicol1 23 дні тому

      @@ololiver92 the bible is a book of lies anyway.

    • @petercassidy0628
      @petercassidy0628 23 дні тому +1

      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 дні тому +376

    Shes just a liar , trying protect her own back , and her nice little fortune

    • @mystrength5640
      @mystrength5640 23 дні тому +15

      Part of her earnings should go to those affected!

    • @timleach3177
      @timleach3177 23 дні тому +17

      All of her earnings and more

    • @olias2716
      @olias2716 23 дні тому +12

      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 дні тому +6

      @@olias2716 That's basic salary, isn't it. The proper earnings of all those CEOs are in bonuses, aren't they.

    • @82vitt
      @82vitt 23 дні тому +4

      @@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 дні тому +257

    How on earth did this woman ever become chief executive?

    • @lexlayabout5757
      @lexlayabout5757 23 дні тому +35

      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 дні тому +5

      My very thought.

    • @woodenseagull1899
      @woodenseagull1899 23 дні тому +12

      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 дні тому +14

      Salary..£700,000 per annum or £14,000 per month.

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 дні тому +8

      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 дні тому +203

    It's not LA LA LAND. It's lie lie lie land

  • @billseymour-jones3224
    @billseymour-jones3224 23 дні тому +239

    Obfuscation, interminable word salads, little white lies, lies and enormous lies. Bloody hell...

    • @kirstennielsen4046
      @kirstennielsen4046 23 дні тому

      Except even hell will have troubles placing this minister.

    • @gordoncampbell100
      @gordoncampbell100 23 дні тому

      She`s had 5 years to practice her performance .Another fail .

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 13 днів тому

      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 дні тому +171

    She been told to give as long answers as possible to facilitate less questioning.

  • @EricTViking
    @EricTViking 23 дні тому +204

    What a load of corporate double-speak 🤦‍♂

    • @leroysimon5692
      @leroysimon5692 23 дні тому +1

      👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

    • @jamesrussel1133
      @jamesrussel1133 17 днів тому

      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 дні тому +225

    It must be obvious to all that she has selective memory .

    • @jessy970
      @jessy970 23 дні тому +18

      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 дні тому +16

      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 дні тому +8

      It seems all the PO managers have 'Dementia' level memory loss!

    • @williamoates1754
      @williamoates1754 23 дні тому +3

      Taking lessons from Nicola Sturgeon.

    • @HelenBlack-sn7ke
      @HelenBlack-sn7ke 23 дні тому

      Must have been something in the water at POL offices, they all have it.

  • @richardtaylor9851
    @richardtaylor9851 23 дні тому +150

    She & her cohorts should all be in Jail for 10 years

  • @kylerb2
    @kylerb2 23 дні тому +143

    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 дні тому +7

      And two yellow cards for time-wasting = 1 red.

    • @charlesdale1462
      @charlesdale1462 23 дні тому +6

      Part of the legal game I'm afraid....

    • @sp-pz8uc
      @sp-pz8uc 21 день тому +1

      Repeat the question is delaying tactic. So she has more time to come up with another lie.

  • @theearlofgrantham9816
    @theearlofgrantham9816 23 дні тому +47

    The real outrage is that it took a TV drama for there to be an outrage.

  • @jonathanbender4691
    @jonathanbender4691 23 дні тому +49

    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 дні тому +149

    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 дні тому +10

      One of many in this corporate gravy train culture.

    • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
      @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 23 дні тому +12

      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 дні тому +3

      If you believe what she is saying that is..

    • @meganm1074
      @meganm1074 23 дні тому +9

      The passivity is just being projected now, because she’s trying to avoid criminal prosecution.

    • @jaybe2908
      @jaybe2908 23 дні тому +3

      @@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 дні тому +75

    Firstly they should seize the £5.1 million she was paid.

    • @CalTheKiwi1
      @CalTheKiwi1 22 дні тому

      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 днів тому

      @@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 дні тому +67

    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 дні тому +96

    Literally talking crap and lying on the spot

  • @user-cl7ub8ft6x
    @user-cl7ub8ft6x 23 дні тому +72

    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 дні тому +7

      She is _doing_ her job which is to protect the Post Office not its postmasters whom she, and it, despise.

    • @Coneman3
      @Coneman3 23 дні тому

      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 днів тому

      She thinks it's all someone else's fault.

  • @24389234
    @24389234 23 дні тому +38

    With a memory like hers she should have been discharged on medical grounds.

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 23 дні тому +1

      perhaps its early onset d

    • @roswilliams2899
      @roswilliams2899 19 днів тому

      Most of them seem to have Alzheimers. No wonder the PO is such a mess - Alzeimers employing more Alzheimers.

  • @Sm-iw2vh
    @Sm-iw2vh 23 дні тому +27

    She’d make a good politician. Corrupt and a rambling liar.

  • @mochan8447
    @mochan8447 23 дні тому +32

    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 дні тому +85

    Liars blink profusely,watch her blink

    • @briandouglas2123
      @briandouglas2123 23 дні тому +6

      It's not normal to blink that much.

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 23 дні тому +3

      yes i picked up on that

    • @carolandersen3373
      @carolandersen3373 23 дні тому +3

      Sure sign of trying to cover her tracks

    • @GPTechno
      @GPTechno 22 дні тому +4

      Absolute Narcissism

    • @frannyp46
      @frannyp46 21 день тому +6

      @royboy50. I would love to see an analysis of these frauds done by body language experts.

  • @24321619
    @24321619 23 дні тому +42

    ''THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS'' any cleric should know that.

    • @MM.-qo7pk
      @MM.-qo7pk 23 дні тому

      She was using the church as a smoke screen to deceive the public and the world

  • @jjptech
    @jjptech 23 дні тому +25

    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 дні тому +57

    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 дні тому +4

      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 дні тому +5

      Same with covid inquiry.
      Drag it out for years ,exonerate all those involved and make the lawyers very rich.

    • @lucaafc
      @lucaafc 23 дні тому

      So your saying she stole money 😂😂😂😂

    • @wickedwitchoftheeast88
      @wickedwitchoftheeast88 23 дні тому

      ​@@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 день тому +1

      All the “stolen” money went into a special account that was for unaccounted money …

  • @skooshy621
    @skooshy621 23 дні тому +20

    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 день тому +1

      @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 дні тому +18

    She got an awful lot of money for not 'recalling very much she did when a CEO.

  • @cathrynhesketh5703
    @cathrynhesketh5703 23 дні тому +23

    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 22 дні тому +5

      Which is also a pretty big black mark on our media, this should have been front page news ages ago

  • @kevinstevens8216
    @kevinstevens8216 23 дні тому +17

    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 дні тому +52

    Is this just theatre for the masses? Will any of those responsible go to prison?

  • @Lyndalewinder
    @Lyndalewinder 23 дні тому +21

    What do you mean I was the CEO - I don't recall ever being told that I was a CEO......

  • @rogergalley3572
    @rogergalley3572 23 дні тому +19

    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 дні тому

      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 дні тому +22

    How do pathological liars get such positions of authority? Poor vetting? Or just money and favours 🤔

    • @lat1419
      @lat1419 23 дні тому +3

      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 дні тому +5

      its just part of the requirements for the job

    • @wickedwitchoftheeast88
      @wickedwitchoftheeast88 23 дні тому

      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 дні тому +1

      It's easier to get a women to bend, the love of money 🤑 and I'm speaking in general

    • @alisonrichards7406
      @alisonrichards7406 22 дні тому

      Requirement of the position.

  • @michaelmaycock5655
    @michaelmaycock5655 23 дні тому +31

    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 дні тому +22

    She is so good at weasel words.

  • @mikefryer5917
    @mikefryer5917 23 дні тому +27

    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 дні тому +2

      Compensation should be paid on top of the money that was stolen from the postmasters, it was theft, plain and simple.

    • @Woofersgalore
      @Woofersgalore 23 дні тому +4

      and tax free

    • @karlmylnere5712
      @karlmylnere5712 22 дні тому +1

      ​@@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 дні тому +1

      @@karlmylnere5712 I know, all we can do is hope. 🤞🤞🤞🤞

  • @kevind6956
    @kevind6956 23 дні тому +11

    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 дні тому +14

    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 дні тому +12

    Straight out of Tony Blair's bullshit school

  • @jamescoburn6789
    @jamescoburn6789 23 дні тому +7

    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 дні тому +30

    WHY IS IT PEOPLE IN CHARGE HAVE SUCH BAD MEMORIES??

    • @dovetonsturdee7033
      @dovetonsturdee7033 23 дні тому +5

      I simply cannot remember. Who am I again, by the way?

    • @robertosborne7542
      @robertosborne7542 23 дні тому +1

      Because its convinient

    • @mikedavis-kp1sx
      @mikedavis-kp1sx 23 дні тому

      Money

    • @meganm1074
      @meganm1074 23 дні тому +1

      Because at this stage the goal is to avoid being criminally prosecuted.

    • @leskaighin8903
      @leskaighin8903 23 дні тому +1

      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 дні тому +18

    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 дні тому +3

      But nobody knew, nobody can remember, everybody covering their own bk sides

    • @molybdomancer195
      @molybdomancer195 23 дні тому +2

      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 дні тому +10

    She talks so much whilst saying so little! I'm surprised she didn't become an MP the way she lies!

    • @nigelfarley814
      @nigelfarley814 22 дні тому

      Looking at this shambles it’s probably next on her list.

  • @annawildsville
    @annawildsville 23 дні тому +40

    Word salad

  • @2412Bec
    @2412Bec 23 дні тому +24

    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 дні тому +41

    and she was considered to be the next London archbishop.......

    • @hubertbreidenbach
      @hubertbreidenbach 23 дні тому +6

      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 дні тому

      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 дні тому

      At least if that came true, she could only do ‘damage’ to those who believe in sky fairies.

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 23 дні тому +2

      shows the calibre required

    • @leroysimon5692
      @leroysimon5692 23 дні тому

      @@stitchlover633 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

  • @nosemellon
    @nosemellon 23 дні тому +46

    I'm trying to find an adjective that sits somewhere between incompetent and f****** abysmal.

    • @GreenWhitePurple
      @GreenWhitePurple 23 дні тому +8

      The word is”liar”

    • @alanthomson1227
      @alanthomson1227 23 дні тому +7

      In future her name will be in all dictionaries synonymous with your description

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 23 дні тому +6

      The word you're seeking is vennellish.

    • @robertosborne7542
      @robertosborne7542 23 дні тому +4

      I dont believe she was incompetant,this is an act.

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 23 дні тому

      what about dire

  • @LtD973
    @LtD973 23 дні тому +12

    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 дні тому

      Absolutely agree!

    • @roswilliams2899
      @roswilliams2899 19 днів тому +1

      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 дні тому +14

    Blink blink blink the sign of a liar

    • @garrydean8670
      @garrydean8670 20 днів тому

      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 дні тому +42

    Nobody seems to be asking who was doing the remote accessing?
    What was their motivation?
    Where did the money go????

    • @dovetonsturdee7033
      @dovetonsturdee7033 23 дні тому +13

      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 дні тому +12

      Exactly. Nobody seems to be addressing this fact.

    • @grahamf695
      @grahamf695 23 дні тому +7

      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 дні тому +4

      It seems there wasn’t actually any missing money. The bugs just made it seem there was.

    • @defendermodsandtravels
      @defendermodsandtravels 23 дні тому +2

      @@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 дні тому +18

    Now she knows how it feels getting grilled hard surrounded by people.

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx 23 дні тому +3

      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 дні тому +5

      @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx alas, I doubt she will ever see the inside of a prison cell. Look at grenfell

    • @wickedwitchoftheeast88
      @wickedwitchoftheeast88 23 дні тому

      ​@@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 дні тому

      Without having to face any consequences...yet.

  • @ianbrown-zw8pz
    @ianbrown-zw8pz 23 дні тому +8

    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 дні тому +8

    Royal Mail started being full on dodgy when Adam crozier joined,tax dodges galore,millions of wasted money etc

  • @raybridges1927
    @raybridges1927 23 дні тому +28

    Lies, lies and yet more lies. Lock her up!!!

  • @matthewmoore6647
    @matthewmoore6647 23 дні тому +7

    Why has this women not been arrested?

  • @garrysims1675
    @garrysims1675 22 дні тому +4

    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 дні тому +28

    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 дні тому +4

      Welby is cut from a similar cloth to her-why feel sorry for an institution which employed such an incompetant liar?

    • @brianlopez8855
      @brianlopez8855 23 дні тому

      It didn't stop Justin getting the top job !

    • @lukerutter6755
      @lukerutter6755 22 дні тому

      Not like a priest to lie ask the choir boys

  • @MrJimbaloid
    @MrJimbaloid 23 дні тому +31

    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 дні тому +11

      True , but let’s not us get her out of our sights .

    • @jabezhane
      @jabezhane 23 дні тому +10

      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 дні тому +6

      You are absolutely correct.

    • @andrewharrison1194
      @andrewharrison1194 23 дні тому +2

      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 день тому +1

      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 дні тому +7

    How can someone of such incompetence hold such a position?

    • @robertosborne7542
      @robertosborne7542 23 дні тому

      Its an act,she surely must have known what was going on and went along with it.

    • @memyself717
      @memyself717 23 дні тому +1

      Connections, went to the "right" school. Etc etc.

  • @grahamkearnon6682
    @grahamkearnon6682 23 дні тому +8

    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 дні тому +9

    “I didn’t know” over and over again! Ignorance, even if this is true, is no defence!

  • @BenDorm
    @BenDorm 23 дні тому +4

    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 дні тому +5

    proceeds of crime , she needs to hand back her lump sum, minimum.

  • @mirjamwillemsen900
    @mirjamwillemsen900 23 дні тому +4

    It is not only La-La Land but also Bla-Bla Land

  • @venenareligioest410
    @venenareligioest410 23 дні тому +7

    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 дні тому +2

      This isn't about Royal Mail, it is about The Post Office, two totally seperate businesses.

    • @venenareligioest410
      @venenareligioest410 22 дні тому

      @@D4SSuk I know, I was talking specifically about Royal Mail though.

    • @chrismoore7606
      @chrismoore7606 16 днів тому

      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 дні тому +8

    I loved the post-office and the large salary i was on........Ive just covered my own back

    • @susanmarch1661
      @susanmarch1661 23 дні тому +1

      I loved the Post Office because they thought I was worthy of the job.

  • @ChrispyNut
    @ChrispyNut 23 дні тому +12

    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 дні тому +5

    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 дні тому +17

    The English government will never prosecute her. That she has to squirm in public will be deemed sufficient punishment.

  • @Tony-xg4uw
    @Tony-xg4uw 23 дні тому +6

    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 дні тому

      i didnt get any only joking its a good question

  • @alantattersall4487
    @alantattersall4487 23 дні тому +20

    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 дні тому +2

      @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 дні тому

      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 дні тому +1

      @@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 дні тому +8

    This woman has selective memory problems, think she has been talking to sturgeon.

  • @JugglinJellyTake01
    @JugglinJellyTake01 23 дні тому +10

    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 дні тому

      The DWP has a system in place that they use all the time.

  • @cardinalnight3883
    @cardinalnight3883 23 дні тому +14

    This is all down to Privatisation. Over and over again we see the problems of this.

    • @franc9111
      @franc9111 23 дні тому

      Absolutely right.

    • @robertosborne7542
      @robertosborne7542 23 дні тому

      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 дні тому

      Post Office was not ever privatised. It was in all intense and purposes a government department, funded entirely by the taxpayer.

    • @jonathanstephenson3964
      @jonathanstephenson3964 23 дні тому +2

      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 дні тому

      in October 2015, the government sold its remaining 15%, finalising the total privatisation of Royal Mail

  • @dwightmark3288
    @dwightmark3288 23 дні тому +3

    This in infuriating, this needs jail, they hounded people

  • @brightspark4817
    @brightspark4817 7 днів тому +2

    she was shown carrying mailbags .she needs to be shown sowing them up in prison

  • @cp4512
    @cp4512 22 дні тому +2

    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 дні тому +4

    Was she working in the canteen serving coffee and sandwiches?

  • @wakeupuk3860
    @wakeupuk3860 23 дні тому +4

    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 UA-cams STILL believes she did nothing wrong and was not her fault.

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 23 дні тому

      she is in the same mould as hilary clinton and bill

  • @alanrogers9597
    @alanrogers9597 23 дні тому +3

    get her charged for at least perjury & PCJ ,,,, then let Mr Henry loose !!!!

  • @daveg1683
    @daveg1683 21 день тому +2

    These establishment narcissists can lie, can't they..🤬

  • @cleebe823
    @cleebe823 23 дні тому +4

    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 дні тому +4

    When disinterested minds start asking questions, people up to their necks in obfuscation, denial and partial truth struggle so eloquently.

  • @patbhukkanasut7772
    @patbhukkanasut7772 23 дні тому +6

    “I am a dumb ass defense “ 👏👏👏

  • @joyplummeridge6940
    @joyplummeridge6940 23 дні тому +9

    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 дні тому +2

      @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 дні тому +1

      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 дні тому +3

      ​@@meganm1074 But the submasters paid their own money to plug the supposed gaps. Where their money go ??

    • @rjs_698
      @rjs_698 21 день тому

      ​@@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 днів тому

      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 дні тому +3

    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 дні тому +4

    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 дні тому +3

    No one in authority in this case will go to prison.

  • @bernardh9994
    @bernardh9994 23 дні тому +4

    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 дні тому +5

    If this is the standard of the rest of the clergy then god help us.

    • @robertosborne7542
      @robertosborne7542 23 дні тому +1

      She quit-doubt the CoE would have her back anyway,too toxic.

  • @valeriecherylirving4048
    @valeriecherylirving4048 23 дні тому +4

    I don’t recall … here we go the usual playbook !! Liar !

  • @rosso2017
    @rosso2017 21 день тому +1

    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 дні тому +3

    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 дні тому +3

    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 дні тому +3

    Prison must await.

  • @maidmarion2976
    @maidmarion2976 23 дні тому +2

    She gives me the creeps. Particularly the calm voice which says nothing.

  • @Foldy435
    @Foldy435 23 дні тому +2

    The woman at the front is thinking about how much she loves her cats.