Paula Vennels being questioned at the Post Office Inquiry, followed by others - thread 2

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A continuation of the discussion started by@Sausagenbaconhere:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5080262-to-enjoy-hearing-paula-vennels-being-taken-apart

Paula Vennells' 3 days of evidence ends today but there are more hearings coming up and we can discuss those too.

When the hearings are going on, live-streaming can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947/featured

All of the previous hearings can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947/videos

Do we have a rough idea when they will get back from the lunch break, assuming it's after this? I want to time my pizza order correctly.

So basically she was a tea lady on over £500k a year.

Selective cognitive decline?

😂

my dad is on school run as they finish at 12.30 in Scotland

Snort.

Yeah I did think I heard shouting from the public before. Just before she cried earlier.

They must be saying all sorts

I think your average tea lady would have much more of an idea of what was going on tbh.

Haha I sometimes delay activities due to watching this too

Do we have a rough idea when they will get back from the lunch break, assuming it's after this? I want to time my pizza order correctly.

Lunch is often 1pm to 2pm. Can vary slightly.

Much like recollections 😂

I'm not around this afternoon so will be relying on you all to keep up with proceedings, please and thank you.

The one all encompassing question I would like to ask is did not one of these directors query why there were suddenly all these alleged dishonest SPM's?

If I remember correctly this question was put to Angela Van Den Bogerd.
Why all of a sudden was the Post Office hiring loads of dishonest thieving SPMs? Did this not ring alarm bells? (or something to the effect)

She said - get this - that in her experience, she had come across dishonest, thieving SPMs prior to the Horizon system, so it wasn't alarming to her..
I've hugely paraphrased.

Essentially they two-faced: on one hand they want to come across as caring very deeply about the SPMs, but on the other hand they fully expect and view the SPM as a bunch of thieves.

@minou123

Yes I remember that, it was quite early on in the inquiry Angela said that

Steen "you blame these mysterious other people for not telling you the truth"

Ooooh Whistleblowing policies. This will be interesting

Ah, she's on the Donald Rumsfeld unknown unknowns.

Yes, I wonder why???🤔🤔🤔

Thanks @Minou123.

I didn't see her evidence but dear God, what a reply.🤬

I understood this too - they believed the 'little people' were all thieves and dishonest so were pleased Horizon proved them right.

Make me sick, these high falutin sneering bosses. Ughhhh.

Wow

"Force the claimants"

I wonder if my hairdresser will mind listening to this while she cuts my hair... No chatting.

Cue the crying

Fucking awful.