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?

“Oh dear, i just didn’t know anything about anything that was happening anywhere ever.”
So when the scandal broke in the press back in 2009, she expects the public to believe she knew nothing about it, no one briefed her, no one on the board ever referred to it, she never saw it reported in the news, on the television, or on the radio or in the newspapers?????
Yeah right….

LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR

I only wish god actually did exist because she would be going to hell for her irrefutable sin.

She doesn't recall much!

She said she would answer every question, am not sure saying I don't recall so much is actually answering the question. I wonder what she actually did in her job as she doesn't seem to know what was going on - apparently!

Don't remember her crying before today?

It is like the Edinburgh Rape Centre being "saddened" by findings earlier this week.

Who are you crying for? Yourself, I presume?

Her tears disgust me. She has had a massive golden parachute whilst innocent people have suffered and even died. Martin Griffiths.

I think any genuine tears will be ones of self-pity. Any shed for the victims will be fewer in number than the amount of individuals whose lives have been damaged by this.

We're now onto 'intermittent errors' re-ocurring frequently and remaining unfixed/unfixable. Vennells 'explaining' why she stopped engaging with emails about this and then her memory fails her.

I think it's called "the Nicola Sturgeon defence".

I propose all politicians or public officials have to take a memory test before assuming office. Then sign a document saying they will pay £1000 towards paying off the national debt for every time they "can't remember" something during a public enquiry.

It's not "Mastermind". You're not answering questions about someone else who lived 500 years ago!

We ve been watching this in the office since it started. Between this and mumsnet Im not getting a lot done 🤣

However
PV compiled a statement 775pages long (or 725?)

No one as yet seems to have proved she’s lied.
Proving it will be very difficult I think, how can they really prove if she did or didn’t read something if she declares she didn’t or can’t remember. Even when another (forgot who) was caught referring to something that they had declared they hadn’t read, that doesn’t mean they referred to something based on someone just mentioning it.

Unravelling this is a nightmare. Proving culpability even more so.
What we think and what can be proved are two very different things.

Did you see how much she earned in her time with the PO?

I could probably retire tomorrow on it comfortably.

I can tell you now she'll not be worrying about her UC interview.

She had a stab at taking control of the line of questioning, crikey the brass neck of her. Mr Beer having none of it.

@EggcornAcorn I think what is so satisfying is seeing someone who lied and ignored the plight of the sub postmasters (a very unequal match of power) meet an adversary who is more than equal to them.

Comeuppance. It has a kind of justice all of its own.

I agree, All.

Who's 'Angela'? She's under the bus.

I'm sorry, but I don't find it credible that she didn't know that the Post Office do their own Prosecutions. Private Eye mentioned it years ago, when they were the only publication to be reporting it. The amount of stuff she claims not to know is staggering; how did she manage to get and do the job, if it's actually the case?

Shame they are only verbally putting her on the rack, she really deserve to be tied to the real thing! Disgusting and indicative of the way far too many CEOs etc see staff, treat staff, regard staff. The higher they go, the worse they really seem to get and the less they care!

Apparently it was all Angela's fault.

Angel Van de Bogerd - who deserves to be under the bus as she was a hard faced liar also.

It's been illuminating to discover that you can earn a fuck ton of money as head of an organisation while apparently not having a clue what's going on in it, or being expected to take responsibility for finding out.

Where do I apply?

Ha ha! Very good 😀

I hope this leads to her being prosecuted and serving time in jail.

Right, and I thought my total lack of interest and engagement in meetings was a limiting factor to a high flying career and yet, here we are, apparently you can rise to the top on a wave of tactical incompetence alone?

Nicola Sturgeon's sister from another Mother.

murasaki · Today 14:47

Where do I apply?

Unfortunately, us Proles, who were negligently incautious in our choice of ancestors aren't eligible.

People complaining were just noise. I could weep at the callousness.

Let’s remember this woman was given an OBE whilst all of this was in full flight