Pauls Vennells took close to £5 million in pay and bonuses over her seven years running the Post Office, including £2.93 million in performance related perks and pension in lieu payments.
During that same period, the Post Office prosecuted subpostmasters using data from a computer system it knew was flawed, and more than 900 were wrongly convicted of theft or false accounting between 1999 and 2015.
Some went to prison, others were made bankrupt or lost their livelihoods entirely. When Computer Weekly first exposed problems with the Horizon system, Vennells sent a company wide email rather than address the failures, according to a former executive.
She stepped down in 2019 just before a High Court judgment condemned the company's conduct, and some of the subpostmasters affected have since died without ever seeing compensation.
Paula Vennells.
In her 7 year tenure as CEO of the Post Office she waltzed off with £5.1 Mn; around £2.2 Mn coming from performance related incentives and pension in lieu payments.
Yet postmasters/mistresses are still waiting for their compensation.
#Newsnight#PostOfficeScandal
Just a reminder that we’re still footing the bill for politicians’ food and alcohol in their workplace, the House of Commons. That shouldn’t be happening. They’re not schoolchildren; they’re grown adults who can bring their own lunch and refrain from drinking on the job.
Did you know?
Muslims don’t take over and block streets to pray in Qatar, Dubai or even Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam. It’s illegal and considered disruptive.
They only do it in the West to assert dominance.
POLITICS MADE SIMPLE #1
The reason the state pension has to rise to age 68 is because the Labour government has decided they would rather pay illegals to sit on their arses than you, after you’ve worked and paid in for half a century.
Hope that helps.
The government wants to penalise & demonise pensioners to fund mass migration. We were told mass migration was necessary to boost our economy. Instead mass migration is a huge drain on resources, it has put our welfare bill through the roof & our infrastructure can’t cope.
He’s clearly shitting himself and about to go over the top and walk calmly towards a German machine gun so Britain can become an Islamic caliphate 100 years later led by the most oppressive, out of touch Labour government of all time with some fruity Marxist like Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.
What a waste.
If only they knew.
In September 1990, my village in Valencia hit 46°C.
It was the exact kind of natural climate volatility this ancient planet has unleashed for billions of years.
Today, Valencia, Rome, and Athens are actually sitting well below their seasonal averages. Yet, the media is in a coordinated meltdown over a standard two-week warm patch in the UK, France, and Belgium.
As a geospatial engineer who wrote a thesis on climatology, I’m positioned better than many to talk about the topic, the entire narrative relies on a broken view of data systems.
The formula is simple: zoom in on a tiny slice of geography, filter out the cool regions that ruin the story, and label a hot afternoon a global catastrophe.
The funniest part is the sheer hubris of the solution.
We are told the Earth's massive climate system operates like a living room thermostat, that if humans just stop CO2 emissions, we can magically freeze the weather at our preferred temperature.
Pretending we can micromanage global macro-cycles with carbon taxes.
But as long as panic funds the machine, and people don’t think by themselves, they’ll keep selling the front-row tickets.
Anyone who believes @NicolaSturgeon did not know what Murrell was up to. Watch this and think twice. Credit to @Channel4News Good on @joannaccherry for asking questions when she did!
Please RT
A UK jury has refused to convict the two Muslim men involved in the 2024 Manchester Airport police assault.
You can be Muslim in the UK, beat police officers, and walk free, but if you are a White kid, you will be arrested while you bleed out.
Meet Dr Keith Wolverton, a genial British GP working in urgent care. During a consultation at a walk-in centre in Staffordshire, he asked a Muslim woman to remove her niqab because he had difficulty hearing her explain her young daughter’s symptoms. He cited issues with her English and the need to see her mouth movements for clear communication and proper diagnosis. She initially refused on religious grounds but eventually complied.
After her daughter received treatment and recovered, the thankless woman filed a complained that she felt “victimised and racially discriminated against.”
CONSEQUENCES: A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing found the doctor guilty of misconduct. He was initially suspended for 9 months. In 2026, Dr Wolverton was struck off the medical register (effectively sacked/banned from practising). All because he was concerned about the health of a child.
It’s time to scrap VAR. It dilutes the full euphoria of a goal with uncertainty and there are even more contentious mistakes than when it was just left to referees and line officials. It’s killing football.
“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”
Forget the debate about whether that was a handball or not last night - the issue is the "clear and obvious" guidance.
IFAB guidance is:
"If an incident needs multiple replays, frame-by-frame analysis, or lengthy forensic examination, it may not meet the “clear and obvious” threshold.
The referee’s original call should generally stand unless the video evidence is compelling."
That's the charge Andrew Dallas needs to answer. Then he should be sacked.
The smug face of a conman. Dangles the carrot of a referendum he knows will never happen, because with the support of only around 20% of the total electorate, he knows he doesn't have anything close to a mandate. He'll ask, be denied, blame WM. Then 5 more years of ineptitude, corruption and failure, for which he'll blame WM. As always, there will be no responsibility and no accountability. Meanwhile he'll pocket at least £800,000 in salary, plus expenses, plus a burgeoning pension pot. We truly are being scammed.