Paula Vennells

She is doing her best to make herself seem incompetent rather than the unfeeling arrogant bitch that she is, but it won't wash. Jason Beer is doing a superb job.

Iam64 As somene who spent their whole working life in industry. I instantly recognised the kind of appointment you describe. There are far too many such appointments and I suffered under several.

Hear hear Iam 👏 I fully agree. This woman was so full of herself coupled with her ‘righteousness’ and of course being a pal of Justin Welby did her no harm and added to her currency. Sycophants will have flocked around her. “All the gear and no idea” comes to mind. It’s frightening to contemplate how on earth she got to this very high profile and very lucrative position.

I don’t believe she was a useful idiot Callistemon, sadly my impression so far is she was appointed as some senior managers are because of her arrogance, her absolute belief in her abilities and determination to stand on anyone who challenged her
GSM what could she be charged with?
Her career is over whatever the outcome of this inquiry
Hail the KC and the Judge

Iam64

I’ve listened to this when driving then unpacking my shop.
The KC is excellent.
Paula Vennells is coming over as cold, calculating, cunning and far from honest.

I'm not sure what to make of her

Either cold, calculating, cunning and far from honest

Or a useful idiot, appointed because she was clueless and could be used by the other managers to cover up what they were doing and who should all be charged.

Who appointed her?

Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

Surely ignorance and incompetence (or, as in this case, lies and cover-up) is no excuse for gross negligence in their role in as much they have a responsibility to their employee's, to keep them safe etc.

I would speculate that any further career prospects for Ms Vennell have been well and truly scuppered. She will be remembered, forever, for her part in this shocking debacle. Maybe that is the best "punishment ".

Criminal negligence possibly I think.

I know so many in management like her, male and female. The don't usually get caught and just carry on ruining people's lives regardless.
There is something of the bear pit about this.
There are quite a fewer higher ups, especially in government, who will get away with it too.

Vennells knowingly lied and covered up a gross miscarriage of justice. To me that would be a crime but I don't know enough about the law to be able to tell if it's a chargeable offence. If it's not it should be

Something like deception and deceiving the public.I don’t know British law. Fraud ? Knowingly causing harm ?

Lying; a cover up.

With what would you charge her?

Her tears don't wash with me, she should be prosecuted and jailed, plus made to return her bonuses, redundancy monies etc!

She should not be able to get away with it. That just isn’t right and would give a terrible message to all the other snakes out there.

She gave her CBE.

She seems to have been a remarkably useless CEO, if anything she has said can be believed.

Or her CBE.?

Has she given back her bonuses?

I have no sympathy for her. Zilch, zero.
But let's not forget all those who oversaw this fraud.
17 (?) Ministers, at least. How I wish they could pay for their part in all this.

God bless Computer Weekly, Private Eye, and Alan Bates.

People slithering their way to the top of the tree and then *** on the little people.

I’ve listened to this when driving then unpacking my shop.
The KC is excellent.
Paula Vennells is coming over as cold, calculating, cunning and far from honest.

DH has been watching, I have been out, he reached saturation point and has now turned off.

She’s an utter lying hypocrite (imo) and deserves everything that’s coming her way!