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?

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Blimey, that really is a key thing not to know!

She was there for years and years and yet claimed not to be aware they wer marking their own homework. Maybe she thought they were all with hands in the till so it didnt really matter who was looking into it

That was very clear yesterday alright. Hours of 'oh um, I don't remember ' and then suddenly some very blunt yeses and no's.

I have also been told that PO employees have an induction day when they start work. That piece of information is apparently on slide 1 of the 1st induction talk.

May be an exaggeration, but I'm pretty sure there's truth to it. It's not something the PO hides, it's something its proud of.

If it's anything like other public service jobs, it's more like an induction week! These sort of of orgs are really heavy on inductions. How useful they are is another matter, but they're always there.

One of the investigators in the last phase had retired. He didn't provide a proper witness statement and was very reluctant to cooperate. Had to be formally summoned.

Since retiring he was apparently very busy running a homeless shelter with the salvation army, and was too busy to be arsed with the enquiry.

I honestly think that he was under the impression that this announcement had won him sympathy. Like Vennels, he just compulsively praised himself and denied all responsibility / knowledge. Tried to hide behind what he saw as his deeply held ethical religious world view.

After a few hours in front of Jason Beer he just looked like a pompous, incompetant, self serving and arrogant twat. Which is pretty much how the sub post masters described him.

This is absolutely true. I have some eye watering examples but some could be outing so not sharing.

With regular refresher courses put on at the most inconvenient time possible....

Yes! But free lunches 😂

JB must be wrecked standing this whole time

Rah straight in.

Who is the guy grilling her now, I missed that?

Mr Henry.

https://www.mountfordchambers.com/profile/ed-henry-kc/

Oof!

I love the way Jo Henderson just stares at the people giving evidence.

Did he say that's "humbuck" or have I spelt it wrong?

I would like to add that to my vocab 🤣

She's gonna start bawling pretty soon

I'm disappointed Flora Paige isnt asking questions. She's brilliant ... sitting next to Mr Henry.

"humbug"

He's really not holding back is he!

"Absolutely nothing wrong with talking to your husband" 🤣🤣🤣

This guy is killing me

The gloves are off!

@Newbutoldfather
"We shall see what happens to Paula Vennels, but I am sure she has lots of sympathetic friends and colleagues".
Yes, this.

There are many people who fail miserably as chief executives but move on before their failure is apparent. Their friends and colleagues know that it is in their own interests to keep the same people circulating round boards, to enable themselves to get jobs in the future. Sometimes they fail simply because they're incompetent, sometimes because (as in this case) they commit acts which a sensible person could also regard as being verging on criminality.
When people move on apparently voluntarily it is often not know whether they were actually pushed, and hence their performance or behaviours go largely unnoticed outside their own organisation. When problems appear later the person responsible is one or two jobs away.

Not an easy ride for her today. Good.

She is using the KC's combative approach to her advantage to make him out to be unreasonable.