Actually I believe that family run businesses are best, you tend to work harder and be more loyal if you know and respect the person on the shop floor who own the business and not some faceless group of people who are only in it for the money. Some workers in nationalised companies just want to take as much as they can because it’s the government and they don’t know anyone personally. I’ve even seen managers tossing it off at Royal Mail…
Believe in public services for people not benefit. People like sub.postmasters do just that serve the people.
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Loathsome b******** why have they not been sacked. Think some should face imprisonment.
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So Vennels has decided to throw people in her employ under the bus rather than accept any responsibility for the scandal. She is quite disgusting.
Indeed, Vennels and quite a few others should be going to prison and they know it; they won’t, which is the worst example of moral turpitude by the government. An ordained priest would be aware of the innate corruption of human nature. A fraud,liar, the buck stopped with her.
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I listened to the enquiry yesterday , what a cold person she is . She knew and if she didnt she was paid £500.000 a year and wasnt doing her job . The investigators or lawyers were excellent and said it like it is .
Can someone tell me when the next session starts i dont want to miss it .
Nothing will happen to her , her delighful life will continue , while the victims continue to suffer .
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It really is horrific, those complicit in this should be going to prison and made to pay compensation from their own money and assets
She doesn’t come over well and some of the things she’s done are callous and manipulative in the extreme
Amoral and not brave enough to do what was right, she thought it would be easier to keep everything hidden?
But there’s a niggle in the back of my mind When these things break, people look for a scapegoat to shoulder all the blame and they hide their own involvement behind that person
Yes, she’s appalling, but is she the only one? Has she been put in the firing line as a convenient scapegoat while there’s others slipping under the radar
An unattractive and cold woman, guilty of a lot, is easily manipulated to hide behind by the equally, but less in the limelight, guilty
I hope the public and the enquiry don’t let hating on her stop them drilling down and apportioning blame and anger towards the others responsible
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Yes Maree, my thoughts exactly, this goes far deeper than just one person and they should be rooted out. I wouldn’t be surprised if the government, or someone therein were complicit in this travesty.
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A conviction would mean defrocking for Vennels, which I think may be the reason it is not going to happen.
Ed Davey?
Possibly Cinders… 
It was still national when I was a postman, Adam Crozier was at the helm in those days.
I’ve still got some shares in Royal Mail, they gave some to all the employees. Don’t suppose they are worth anything now though.
She was supposed to be in charge - the buck stops here!! Having said that I think there are many who should also shoulder blame. As for her tears, they are for herself having to face up to the fact that she didn’t do the job she was paid to do. All my sympathies are with the victims.
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Reading some of the inquiry interviews something struck me - the way people are separating the “board” from the “business”. I’ve not seen this in other businesses as the board is usually made up of directors or executives covering the different functions in the business. The chair and non-exec directors are most often a bit removed from the business, but the rest of the board IS the business. I cannot imagine a board level director of IT trying to claim that he/she did not know something because the business side of IT had not revealed it.
Is the separation referred to in the inquiry reflecting something unique about the Post Office? Or is it being emphasised here because some want to be seen to be separate from these problems?
One normal person amongst the elitist boors.
Proper financial recompense and criminal prosecutions of those responsible, might, just might, bring some comfort to those who were robbed by the Post Office.
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All my working life I’ve spoken of the British culture of hierarchy in the workplace where top brass are invariably very detached from front line reality
We’ve learned nothing from WW1.
Ed Davey claiming to be a man of action makes me seeth
This bears out your comment.
Sorry, this enquiry like others show the wrong people always seem to hold positions they are unsuited for. All and everyone desperate to save themselves, shame on them all.
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For years this has bothered me. All the way back to WW1, we should have learned the lessons from putting disconnected Ruperts in charge of far away trenches.
I think class snobbery is how we still privilege the wrong people who are dreadful at leadership.
Now we’re adding woke diversity hires into the mix. How many more police women getting beaten up which in turn means the health n safety of male officers is compromised? Managers are responsible for these decisions.
Before anyone replies, take a look at the latest footage of the Manchester airport violence: the 2 female officers are helpless and the remaining male is thus in much greater danger. Just in time a taser is used thank goodness
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I agree Conradd, and it’s time for a change…There are more of us than them and we should take it further. The people of the UK are having things thrust upon them without their consent…Net Zero, Electric Vehicles, smart this, and smart that, and really bad lefty ideology (wokeness)…and much more…
If the Criminal Prosecution Service decides that the evidence standard is met, any potential trial would not be until at least 2027.
Commander Stephen Clayman.
“The scale of the task ahead is unprecedented,” he said, adding that officers are being supported by “cutting-edge technology” to help work through evidence in documents.
"I cannot make promises that this will be a fast process. An investigation of this size must continue to be undertaken meticulously and methodically and will take time.
“However, I speak on behalf of our whole team when I say we will approach it with independence, precision and integrity.”
Sir Alan Bates. a victim will be a huge asset to police.
If evidence has no been tampered with lost or destroyed.
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