Post Office’s ‘malignant culture’ destroyed lives, inquiry told

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  • @jackspring7709
    @jackspring7709 Місяць тому +54

    The fact that nobody went to prison other than the victims is an absolute scandal and an indictment of the rule of law in this country.

    • @kevinleeevans9004
      @kevinleeevans9004 29 днів тому +2

      They only care about the fact they have been caught out!
      The people in the UK civil service can be monsters I'm affraid!

    • @incurvatus
      @incurvatus 28 днів тому

      ​@@kevinleeevans9004The victims were civil servants too.

  • @sebastianverney7851
    @sebastianverney7851 Місяць тому +61

    I'm glad this man has said this.

  • @calebfielding6352
    @calebfielding6352 Місяць тому +88

    the absurddity is that a lot of people lied in court to put innocent people in prison, and now the people who lied have not been charged or put in prison.

    • @theondebray
      @theondebray Місяць тому +9

      ... yet.

    • @Ken-ps9ux
      @Ken-ps9ux Місяць тому +7

      @@theondebray Yeah lets see how many and how lenient the sentences are

    • @hholton7245
      @hholton7245 Місяць тому +8

      British justice protects the rich and prosecutes the poor.

    • @julieemery8963
      @julieemery8963 Місяць тому

      @@hholton7245Absolutely😡

    • @julieemery8963
      @julieemery8963 Місяць тому

      @Ken-ps9uxits gov, theyll not do any time, they all stick together like a cult

  • @silondon9010
    @silondon9010 Місяць тому +72

    Simon Thompson CEO of Royal mail lied on oath to parliament and faced no consequences

    • @junehitchcock170
      @junehitchcock170 Місяць тому +7

      He should pay for his lies!

    • @DanielGroves-h1j
      @DanielGroves-h1j Місяць тому

      ​@@junehitchcock170look what happened to United healthcare CEO
      He will get his karma
      I hope.

    • @hellsbells2028
      @hellsbells2028 29 днів тому +5

      I'm hoping that he will be arrested now the inquiry is over?

  • @Ady-t3u
    @Ady-t3u Місяць тому +41

    What people were put through is nothing short of unbelievable, to think that genuine hardworking people who had never commented a crime in their life were quite literally put through the hell of a crown court trial knowing damn well that they'd done absolutely nothing wrong in itself bad enough but then to be somehow found guilty of stealing thousand of pounds and sent to prison is absolutely disgusting and the people who are ultimately responsible for what happened whether intentionally or not should I believe be given a taste of that same medicine and used as an example to make sure that this kind of injustice is never allowed to happen again. As far as I'm aware the victims are still waiting to see any componsation which is also completely unacceptable.

  • @allenp920
    @allenp920 Місяць тому +29

    One postmaster took his own life and the Post Offices only concern was how could they come out of the situation looking good. Disgusting people

    • @Chris-qn6pr
      @Chris-qn6pr Місяць тому +5

      I believe that at least 4 people took their own lives over this.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 Місяць тому +3

      Plus those at risk of not receiving due compensation in their lifetime.

  • @zetectic7968
    @zetectic7968 Місяць тому +41

    The arrogance of the leadership that wanted total control & were deaf to any who questioned their authority.

    • @letmeinwillu
      @letmeinwillu Місяць тому +3

      Seems, to my mind, to find a strong echo in the attitude of successive recent governments to the people of Greet Britain.

    • @pauldickinson5316
      @pauldickinson5316 Місяць тому

      Remember it was the Government who gave the Post Office the power to police, bring criminal charges and prosecute.

  • @colinireson9339
    @colinireson9339 Місяць тому +16

    If a shed load of senior managers, investigators, etc do not spend years in prison for this, the largest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, then that will prove that justice is dead in this country.

  • @robjackson9943
    @robjackson9943 Місяць тому +53

    Send the guilty to prison

  • @bobbycaldwell4132
    @bobbycaldwell4132 Місяць тому +21

    It proves the point that there is one rule for the rich and powerful and another for us ,

  • @Beverley-b9t
    @Beverley-b9t Місяць тому +9

    What a very eloquent man, Bravo.

  • @bobthebuilder5728-v3w
    @bobthebuilder5728-v3w Місяць тому +30

    An abysmal mess, all of it, and the facts/truth ignored for years. That Vennells is one nasty piece of work. Stripped of OBE, and an embarrassment to the church.
    The rest are no better, liars that just squirm on chair, and know they will suffer no consequences.
    And none of them whatsoever, eating a prison meal today, and should be 🤬

  • @junehitchcock170
    @junehitchcock170 Місяць тому +13

    You could describe the same culture in the NHS! The NHS uses Non Disclosure Agreements too.
    Imagine this heartless cover-up culture being transferred to the NHS! Paula Vennells was the chair of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust from 2019 to 2021. She resigned from the role in April 2021. And an ordained Anglican priest until 2021- how does did she manage to get a job in the NHS with her record? How did she find time to do several jobs simultaneously? These questions need to be answered.
    How can she live with herself after her past record in the Post Office was revealed.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 Місяць тому +2

      Indeed,how invested can one be in one role and the issues involved when they keep being offered and accepting all these additional ones? Not to say people can't hold two or more positions at the same time and fulfil them diligently rather than superficially,but a trade-off with effectiveness must exist somewhere.

  • @bobbycaldwell4132
    @bobbycaldwell4132 Місяць тому +6

    And on the closing of that mans speech sums up exactly what the Post Office thought of ruining peoples lives ,,,,,, nothing !!! Not even a word of apology ,,, they sat in court pretending they knew nothing whilst they knew everything and that nasty little scouse bully coming across as an uncaring nasty little bully , jail them

  • @Conroymar
    @Conroymar Місяць тому +8

    Surely there should be action taken to punish the guilty ones - the management that blamed and punished the postmasters. It's as clear as daylight that action should be taken against the guilty parties.....

  • @andrewhamilton2125
    @andrewhamilton2125 Місяць тому +4

    The directors need to face a prison sentence for their deceitful behaviour, failure to act and lying about a system that was not what they claimed.

  • @elaber5
    @elaber5 28 днів тому +1

    Very eloquently put Mr Henry. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @stevetodd7030
    @stevetodd7030 Місяць тому +15

    How much has this cost the tax payer? Give the bill to the post office owners who were in charge during the time of this scandal.

    • @pauldickinson5316
      @pauldickinson5316 Місяць тому +5

      The Government own the Post Office so the bill would fall on the taxpayer's.

  • @David-g7k9e
    @David-g7k9e Місяць тому +6

    He summed it up quite well and didn't elaborate on any criminality, or the clawback of all salaries from the moment a wrong doing happened with monies returned to the taxpayers and for the affected Postmasters.Only following orders doesn't fit here. We are all expected to know right from wrong, their wrongs makes them complicit.

  • @darrennandrewfitness2836
    @darrennandrewfitness2836 Місяць тому +3

    All this foolishness and yet people aren't getting paid and compensated for what they was put through now that we know the bosses were to blame

  • @dmthandmade5674
    @dmthandmade5674 Місяць тому +11

    The intentional destruction of the public service which used to be our royal mail, the splitting of the post office and delivery sides and privatisation has been a disaster. Now instead of a decent job for British people with the money all going in circles in the community and society, now we've got foreign (state owned) comanies delivering our parcels for a profit and sicking money out of the country.
    The culture described in this video is one of the results.
    Soooo efficient.

  • @davidstreet3119
    @davidstreet3119 29 днів тому +1

    I worked for them for 42 years. Destroyed my life at the time.

  • @regsilverside9089
    @regsilverside9089 Місяць тому +5

    I believe Blair knew about the flawed software but he didn’t want to upset the Japanese creators of the software by telling them so.

  • @lallford
    @lallford Місяць тому +2

    It's not the prison time but waiting for the time that will be the punishment.

  • @cityvisual
    @cityvisual Місяць тому +12

    I have not seen any reporting about the independent auditors. The ones who look forensically at the paper trails and access to live systems.
    Are Fujitsu still liable?

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 29 днів тому +2

      They damn well should be. When they insisted that the system had no bugs or faults,I laughed because bugs are likely if not inevitable during the development of such a large,complex software project. How swiftly and thoroughly any bugs are identified and rectified,ideally no later than final testing let alone release or going live,is vital. I'm pretty sure just about anyone at Microsoft could have told them that.

  • @richardmuskett931
    @richardmuskett931 Місяць тому +5

    It's good to hear this summary . But is this it .... the end of the line ? Or is there some attempt at compensation for the postmasters and punishment for the wrongdoers . Are the wrongdoers too posh and respectable to be punished ?
    And what about VIP Lane people who fleeced taxpayers of millions ? Are they too posh to be investigated too ? There doesn't seem to be too much happening there either .

  • @jamescain7287
    @jamescain7287 Місяць тому +2

    The Royal Mail is England!
    You’ll will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

    • @jamescain7287
      @jamescain7287 29 днів тому

      @ This is why all the villians in Star Wars’ Galactic Empire are English.

    • @gavinmurrell3415
      @gavinmurrell3415 29 днів тому

      ​@@jamescain7287 English actors pick up the slack left behind by Hollywood actors, too scared to play the villain.

  • @ralphplumb7027
    @ralphplumb7027 Місяць тому +4

    If people are not jailed from this inquiry the system is broken and deliberately so !!!

  • @thetraveller869
    @thetraveller869 28 днів тому

    …and no-one has been made responsible…
    How many Post Office executives are being charged and/or jailed?
    That is what the public want to see!!

  • @alexalston3001
    @alexalston3001 29 днів тому

    I’ve done everything I can to avoid using royal mail since this atrocity came to light.

  • @austenj4539
    @austenj4539 29 днів тому

    ...and no one within the legal system picked up on obvious fact that hundreds of postal staff were being accused nationwide of theft and imprisoned. A equal, pathetic failure.

  • @Miguel-uf7gb
    @Miguel-uf7gb 29 днів тому

    Absurdities and atrocities

  • @Zerpentsa6598
    @Zerpentsa6598 29 днів тому

    As usual, the establishment closing ranks and giving one big middle finger to the victims.

  • @RogerDearing-xy5hl
    @RogerDearing-xy5hl 29 днів тому

    The Post Office are rotten to the core. You cannot believe a word anyone says !!!! .. xXx

  • @sausagembape677
    @sausagembape677 29 днів тому

    I'll bet a pound to your penny that not one of the Post Office and Solicitor criminals does 1 day in prison.

  • @lindensheffield6434
    @lindensheffield6434 Місяць тому

    This enquiry is likely making lawyers very rich indeed. I trust at the end of it, those responsible will be jailed for a long time, and the victims will be appropriately compensated NOT by the taxpayer, but by the Post Office and Fujitsu. And the very first people who need jail time are the call handlers, who could have stopped this before it started if they'd had any moral compass at all. They knew they were doing wrong telling people they were the 'only ones' this was happening to.

  • @s.j.bluewater908
    @s.j.bluewater908 Місяць тому +22

    Keir Starmer is a similar cruel authoritarian. Accountable eventually

    • @letmeinwillu
      @letmeinwillu Місяць тому +2

      An example of the arrogant metro elite that (mis)govern our country and institutions, craft laws to subdue and silence free speech - and even thought - and treat the citizens of our country with utter derision and contempt.

  • @JohnDoe-uu2zs
    @JohnDoe-uu2zs 29 днів тому

    Let’s hope justice is finally done in this case but I’m not holding my breath

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 29 днів тому

    Two tier justice! You go to prison for a tweet but get nothing for ruining innocent people!

  • @JackHay-p8k
    @JackHay-p8k 28 днів тому

    Vennells :A truly disgraceful woman.She may have been bored by all the sub-postmaster complaints during her tenure, but was devastated to be 'found out', after all her lies.

  • @elguapo1507
    @elguapo1507 29 днів тому

    Get her in the dock!!

  • @aprilfox1057
    @aprilfox1057 29 днів тому

    In some cases POL ‘bashed’ postmasters and sub postmasters to death in its relentless desire to ‘protect’ a faulty IT system.

  • @TabsT-vy5jy
    @TabsT-vy5jy 29 днів тому

    Waste of time. Nobody will be arrested.

  • @vanburger
    @vanburger 29 днів тому

    Ignorance cannot be a defence, A whisper of a problem would have alerted the ordinary person in the street
    This only happens when you don't want to believe the truth.

  • @Cherrytune386
    @Cherrytune386 Місяць тому +1

    ...... And now sold to a czech!!!!!!! 😠😡🤬

    • @gavinmurrell3415
      @gavinmurrell3415 29 днів тому

      Do your homework first before commenting. Royal Mail, not The Post Office given over to the Sphynx

  • @aprilfox1057
    @aprilfox1057 29 днів тому

    Paula Vennells closing statement was utterly useless. It quoted emails in her defence yet failed to quote reference numbers of recorded evidence. She gave a final attempt to say ‘not me gov’. The word corruption has not been used but POL was corrupt as evidenced throughout the hearings. Bonuses paid for doing a job a ‘hit job’ on so called ‘subbies’.

  • @nonamegiven2024
    @nonamegiven2024 Місяць тому +1

    if there is an after live, i will come back as a high roller elite. its a no brainer. no consequence for being a scumbag

  • @JC-ei4oh
    @JC-ei4oh 29 днів тому

    Here here ......

  • @sarahwinfield3989
    @sarahwinfield3989 27 днів тому

    This kind of misscarraige is not unusual in the god forsaken country. There will be no redress for the Postmasters nor any kind of substantial punishment for the perpetrators of the prosecutions.Instead most of the guilty already have there golden handshakes and will have had an invitation to sit on another board somewhere.

  • @alhamilton7261
    @alhamilton7261 23 дні тому

    shocking

  • @JohnMoore-q1g
    @JohnMoore-q1g 24 дні тому

    No one stood up, except Criton, and she was buried, a klm deep.
    Same with second site, but they didnt fold, As for Alan Bates, quite resilience and pugnacious resolve, brought these, highly educated a holes down.
    Where are the criminal charges,
    enough evidence .
    Shout out for Whyn
    suburb control throughout.

  • @geoffroberts1131
    @geoffroberts1131 29 днів тому

    Nothing to do with privatisation we're to believe 😂!

  • @GurnamGill-s9o
    @GurnamGill-s9o Місяць тому

    Very Very turo ਦਿਸ all ਦੇ ਸਾਡੇ ਓਨਲੀ you ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ

  • @dominiqpowell37
    @dominiqpowell37 29 днів тому

    WHY DO THEY KEEP SAYING LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN FOR THE 3 TO COME BACK? MORE WILL BE ADDED TO THE 3 TO LEAVE. ITS TIME TO FINALLY BREAK FREE AND STAND UP ON OUR OWN. DO THE BUSINESS WITH ALL AROUND THE WORLD, BUT INDEPENDENTLY OF ALL COLONIAL POWERS, WORK FOREMOST FOR THE AFRICAN PEOPLES. AS IT SHOULD BE.

  • @grahambuckerfield4640
    @grahambuckerfield4640 Місяць тому

    HAL 9000 was not on the Discovery spacecraft fictionally on the way to Jupiter, it was in every sub post office counter.

  • @president-electarthurbombe6942
    @president-electarthurbombe6942 Місяць тому +1

    Was there a conspiracy?

  • @BLUESKY-zt1nv
    @BLUESKY-zt1nv Місяць тому +1

    Is anyone going to buy Paula Vennells new Auto Biography in the new year .."My life and times as a CEO in the Post Office" ....?? £22 Hardcover ..but if you place an order in advance its only £15 ..£5 off or you can wait for the paperback but that takes about 2 years ? ..,[don't think i can wait that long ] before a paperback version is out for sale ...but if you keep a look out in your local supermarket in the book section they usually sell for half the price ..like Boris Johnsons new Hardback book £20 ...in the supermarket just £10 !! an absolute bargain .

  • @Vince-l4k
    @Vince-l4k Місяць тому +2

    There was a short in the money because the system was easy to defraud,

  • @grahamhouse9430
    @grahamhouse9430 Місяць тому

    😢

  • @GurnamGill-s9o
    @GurnamGill-s9o Місяць тому +1

    Very Very turo

  • @stud105
    @stud105 29 днів тому

    Other more serious cases get less coverage.

  • @gyanprakashraj4062
    @gyanprakashraj4062 29 днів тому

    JAIL KII ROTIII

  • @nonsequitor
    @nonsequitor Місяць тому

    MITIE

  • @sunmoonstar124
    @sunmoonstar124 29 днів тому

    I thought he was a comedian oh well il pretend this is a comedy.

  • @charlesflouvat1829
    @charlesflouvat1829 Місяць тому

    Disgraceful editing,🤮. Please play the full, damming, summing up

  • @jb-y1487
    @jb-y1487 Місяць тому +8

    This is within our government

  • @borceapostolovski372
    @borceapostolovski372 Місяць тому +1

    We hope is gone in history