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Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster
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The Reverend Paula Vennells finally appears in court over the disaster with Brit Post offices. Some people committed suicide, some were  sent to prison. She doesn't appear to understand either the harm done or  contrition.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...eo-victims

Quote:The former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells would like the victims of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history to know that she┬áhasnÔÇÖt actually done anything deliberately wrong, and that she honestly doesnÔÇÖt understand how all this has happened. I guess sheÔÇÖs asking all the jailed and wrongly convicted subpostmasters to try to imagine being swept up in a Kafkaesque nightmare of undue blame. So ÔǪ please add the murder of irony to her notional future charge sheet.
To┬áAldwych House in London, then, where Paula produced tears in time for the lunchtime bulletins and reprised them for the section in which her emails seemingly found her on a fishing expedition for other ÔÇ£contributory factorsÔÇØ that might have caused an appallingly persecuted subpostmaster to take his own life.┬á
For now, letÔÇÖs just say Paula Vennells now ÔÇ£canÔÇÖt recallÔÇØ more about the Post Office than youÔÇÖd expect a tenuously engaged CEO on 700 grand a year ever to have known.
Pressed early by the inquiryÔÇÖs Jason Beer KC how on earth she hadnÔÇÖt known what was going on, Paula explained: ÔÇ£I was too trusting.ÔÇØ Barely a quarter of an hour later this humblebrag had done a complete 180, as she said: ÔÇ£I was sometimes criticised at team development events for being too curious.ÔÇØ Was she? At one stage Vennells had even been unaware that her organisation employed a team of about 100 enforcers driving private prosecutions. IÔÇÖm reminded of those people who worked for Bernie Madoff on the 18th and 19th floors in his offices, and somehow didnÔÇÖt realise he and a crack unit were running the worldÔÇÖs biggest Ponzi scheme on the 17th.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)


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Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - by Lilith7 - 23-05-2024, 11:54 AM

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