Interesting, with live updates and video clips. Paula Vennells, 65, is an Anglican priest and was the CEO of the Post Office from 2012-19. An extract from the BBC piece:
“Another meta moment at the inquiry, as sub-postmasters – some of who are watching on today – are mentioned as part of Paula Vennells’ evidence.
Vennells, taken through applications submitted to Second Sight (forensic fraud investigators) by people including Lee Castleton, Noel Thomas and Pamela Stubbs, says she found them “disturbing” and “upsetting”.
And when asked how, if that was the case, none of the claims resulted in anything of “substance” – Vennells breaks down for a third time.
She apologies again and says she knows now that the Post Office made the wrong call.”
Her display of unaccountability is shameless, but typical of women in general, who take the credit for everything they can, and the blame for nothing.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Yes the flip side to the accusation that men are egotistical and say “I” a lot. Because of course though that means he gets the credit for success it also means the criticism when it isn’t. Its one of the more subtle forms of women’s sense of entitlement and aversion to taking “risks”. A couple of weeks ago I watched a classic of this in a video of a congressional hearing (they are often very entertaining). In it the equivalent of the Minister for the Environment was being questioned about some rescinded mining licenses. She wriggled and squirmed; her “department is a team”, she “sets the strategic framework”, “collective responsibility” and on and on as the Senator simply wanted to know did she know about the licenses? And could she say why they’d been retracted? There is a great deal of talk about “strategy”, “collective responsibility”, in social and health care and in truth most of its about trying to avoid being held responsible for things that may be unpopular or controversial. In my observation it is corrosive because it feeds a culture of concealment and obfuscation and this eventually infects every level.
Linked to this is a tendency for women to believe their “authority” rests on their status, rather than what they do in leadership. So they’ll often busily inform all and sundry about their Degree or other paper qualifications and their title, rather than lead by example.
In the case I refer to I actually think she simply didn’t know. And it wouldn’t surprise me if Vennells actually didn’t know much either, because the other side of this convenient “collective responsibility” is it means you don’t make it your business to look into the business. I’m sure it never occurred to either that they should have known.
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