to enjoy hearing Paula Vennels being taken apart?

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Is anyone else listening - radio 5 at the moment. Paula Vennels being slowly picked apart by an expert?

Her attitude stinks.

Like even here in the dock, her attitude stinks.
She has no shame.

You can be sure of that. She's a bullshitter of the highest order.

To be fair it must be difficult getting through the work day while being the embodiment of all three monkeys.

55 prosecution per year for last 10 years. Did they not wonder why so many

Once she'd gone Vennels sent an email saying (something like) "the problem was she put her responsibilities as a lawyer above the interests of the PO"

What a pity Vennells didn’t put her much-vaunted Christian values above the interests of the PO. Greater interest in truth-telling and compassion might have helped, I feel.

Re her comments yesterday about being ‘too trusting’ - later in the same session she also described herself as ‘sometimes too curious’. Well, which is it, Paula?

This is one of the explosive parts of Vennell's evidence. The closest thing to a cover-up that can be stuck on her.

Wow .... blatant buck passing about excluding Susan Crichton from the board meeting. It wasn't her it was Alice Perkins!

This woman's a snake ... she'll turn on anyone.

Spin on SS report

Is she saying that even as CEO she had no authority?

'maybe there's a comma missing'. Christ!

Basically this is the bit where Vennells and Perkins worked together to destroy Crichton's position as General Counsel.

Always the case in schools, ime.

@GoldenMalicious I have worked in organisations where that blaming culture existed. Essentially it is institutionalised scapegoating.

It was incredibly negative and unproductive. People hid mistakes or concerns. It went with a culture of constantly using acronyms rather than saying things properly. People are then frightened to question because they don't know what an XYZ_7 is. An approach designed to obfuscate.

Not challenging this is a failure of senior management and that failure starts at the top.

It is hard to see an organisation of which you were, perhaps, proud through other people's eyes. To see things which you thought were normal, laid bare and criticised. But this is necessary. There is no getting away from it. People's lives have been ruined. Not once but hundreds of times over

This is not a minute 🤣ffs

The thing that strikes me is how many back handed compliments she gives herself. It's always "I was too trusting", "I would always curious", I was always this, that or the other.

I genuinely think she could get up and go. Because wtf is this

And yet so quick to admit to not understanding virtually anything about the organisation she was supposedly in charge of!

She can't even back herself convincingly.

She said just now "I think I said these two things but I can't recall" Jesus Christ.

One might suugest that Crichton wasn't allowed in the meeting because she'd have been able to defend herself when Vennells and Perkins set about destroying her standing.

She's making things up as she goes along

Yes

Just catching up.

''If the minutes capture that then yes''.

''I think I thought''

''I don't know''

Ahh. Crichton's paper was never presented to the board and instead the discussion was about how rubbish she was.

Mission accomplished!

She had previously worked with SS guy (can't remember his name). My reading ( and only mine), is that PO board initially saw second sight as a "tame" investigator who they could control via their relationship with Susan Crichton. Once they realised this wasn't going to work, SS had to go and so did Susan Crichton.