Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[Sonority]

This needs to be brought back up in the list - next week should be interesting to be polite.
Will this woman even attempt to be truthful?

 

[Cav]

This needs to be brought back up in the list - next week should be interesting to be polite.
Will this woman even attempt to be truthful?

No need to waste your time hearing her testimony then, given you clearly already know the "truth"...

 

[AnilS]

Former Post office top lawyer "won't co-operate" with horizon inquiry, scrolling on BBC news ticker now.
Oddly, can't find it on the BBC but telegraph link added.

That in itself seems quite damning.

Post Office lawyer who oversaw Alan Bates case refusing to co-operate with inquiry

It is understood that Jane MacLeod is living in New Zealand and the inquiry cannot compel her to give evidence while she is abroad

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[kensalriser]

No need to waste your time hearing her testimony then, given you clearly already know the "truth"...

Blimey. I must have been imagining the patent mendacity, obfuscation, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and role in the one of the most egregious cases of corporate malfeasance in British history.

 

[Cav]

Blimey. I must have been imagining the patent mendacity, obfuscation, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and role in the one of the most egregious cases of corporate malfeasance in British history.

Let's see if the Inquiry reaches the same conclusion. I have watched more of it than might be good for me but the phrase "unreliable witness" seems to me to apply at every level. The legal profession being very much to the fore.

 

[ks.234]

“I am very very very very sorry, it’s difficult to describe just how sorry I am, weep, weep, for getting caught.​

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I promise I will now tell the truth this time.​

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Until I get caught again”​

 

[ks.234]

^ for clarity I do not think that Vennells is solely to blame.

It would be nice to see a drama about how much politicians have been involved in this breech of everything moral

 

[notaclue]

How much was this idiot paid?

A massive scandal partly under her watch. Starts crying in a public inquiry. Clearly very competent.

 

[les24preludes]

When power is put in the hands of amoral people, whether corporations, politicians, governments or individuals it's usually the media that is the final arbiter because nothing else works.

Thanks God for an independent media and long may it stay that way.

 

[Enfield boy]

Sadly, our "independent" media is largely responsible for putting the sh!ts in power who enabled this.

 

[gavreid]

"Cry on the telly, we saw you cry on the telly..."

She's only crying for herself and not the people who's lives were ruined on her watch...

 

[les24preludes]

Sadly, our "independent" media is largely responsible for putting the sh!ts in power who enabled this.

The media has done a lot of better things than that. The Post Office scandal was brought to light in lunchtime broadcasts on Radio 4. Riveting stuff. There's a long list of other scandals that have been exposed by the media. And many, many journalists have been killed recently in conflict areas. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[notaclue]

Clearly she was worth every penny of her massive salary...

"Paul Brand@PaulBrandITV
Laughter in the room as Paula Vennells repeatedly maintains that she had no idea that the Post Office even had the power to launch prosecutions against subpostmasters."

 

[kensalriser]

It's pathetic and repellent. The complete lack of awareness of how to behave or even to try to do the right thing is breathtaking. Psychopathic, in fact.

 

[richardg]

That Jason Beer barrister is cutting through the crap very well in his questioning.

 

[LostAtSea]

Have been listening/watching today. Some of the emails shown from Tim McCormack were highly illuminating.

 

[Minio]

Seems like the squirming of Vennalls has been upstaged by the election announcement from Downing Street.

That's a shame.

 

[Ponty]

Seems like the squirming of Vennalls has been upstaged by the election announcement from Downing Street.

That's a shame.

Yes, it is. Overshadowed by Rain Man. Beer is fabulous.

 

[AnilS]

Seems like the squirming of Vennalls has been upstaged by the election announcement from Downing Street.

That's a shame.

I bet she welcomes the distraction!

I watched what I could. Saw through the crocodile tears when getting found out

2 more days.....

 

[Enfield boy]

So effing brazen. The Venal woman thought blubbing might make her a figure worthy of sympathy? A CEO and, Christ knows why, former woman of the cloth.
She is a metaphor for the governance of this country. Sorry, that's harsh. Sunak, Bojo, May, Camonan, Truss and those that wish to replace Sunk are almost all worse.