Ex-Post Office chief asked "are we the baddies?" | Jeremy Vine

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  • Mark Davies has been asked at the Horizon inquiry if he ever stopped to consider that he and other bosses might be the villains.
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  • @peterwhitear7716
    @peterwhitear7716 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +29

    they all should be jailed for the amount of time this had been going on ( 20yrs )

  • @johnclarke-vs9qe
    @johnclarke-vs9qe 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    The courts should be forced to explain if the postmasters had "stolen money", where was it?, what had they done with it? I think Mrs Misra was convicted of stealing £75k, where was any of it? Shocking by our courts!

    • @margaretfitzgerald1489
      @margaretfitzgerald1489 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I could never understand that

    • @fgrsimon
      @fgrsimon 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Yes, this should have been the first principle of every one of these prosecutions. Where did the missing money go? If it's not possible to prove where the money went then it's not missing.
      Lee Castleton was accused of taking over £300,000. You simply can't lose that sort of money without some sort of money laundering operation.

    • @eljay5746
      @eljay5746 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      This is the smoking gun. Not one on the prosecution side thought to ask that question of the PO. This includes the Judges at all the trials prior to the appeal case. Do none of these so called learned individuals not have any common sense. Why was the increase in profits from the PO suspense account not queried by the financial accountants Ernst & Young. How can it be declared a profit when it was balancing a shortfall. Appears as though false accounting was being undertaken by the PO.

    • @24321619
      @24321619 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@margaretfitzgerald1489 It is called madness!

  • @brunopetit9538
    @brunopetit9538 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    It is just corporate bullying. Let’s not kid ourselves on as this happens each and every day in so many organisations. Seen it and been subjected to it myself.

  • @stuartlawson7977
    @stuartlawson7977 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    Don't forget who owns the Post Office. The Government.

    • @joffey1212
      @joffey1212 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Tony blair told of horizon bug in 1998 and tories carried on doing diddly squat

    • @Philosoph-ali
      @Philosoph-ali 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Don’t forget who delivers the post, postmen

    • @custossecretus5737
      @custossecretus5737 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Horizon program in use 1999
      Post master convictions 1999-2015
      Postal services act 2011
      Royal Mail group split in 2012
      Royal Mail privatised 2013-2015
      Vincent Cable knighted 2015
      Sounds to me that this was hushed up to preserve the brand so it didn’t effect the share price when sold.

    • @custossecretus5737
      @custossecretus5737 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Horizon program in use 1999
      Post master convictions 1999-2015
      Postal services act 2011
      Royal Mail group split in 2012
      Royal Mail privatised 2013-2015
      Vincent Cable knighted 2015
      Sounds to me that this was hushed up to preserve the brand so it didn’t effect the share price when sold.

    • @MR-gl9xu
      @MR-gl9xu 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Dear @stuartlawson7977
      Owned by the “Grubberment”!!!

  • @Chanesmyname
    @Chanesmyname 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Justice must be done for the innocent victims of a corporate monster, surely.

    • @JB-wy8fc
      @JB-wy8fc 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      In reality. Justice is rarely done

  • @johnrob6132
    @johnrob6132 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    These people were totally lacking in morality. They all knew what was going on and the damage they were doing to the sub postmasters but they didn`t care. All their efforts were directed at covering up the truth about the Horizon system and now their sole aim at the enquiry is to cover their backs with the collective "it wasn`t me gov."

  • @kanedNunable
    @kanedNunable 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    they should all to go prison.

  • @Galacticmaster
    @Galacticmaster 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    if they were getting sent to prison, having life savings robbed from them, mortgages cancelled or getting hounded out of their town locally, they would have rethought the whole thing 100%.

  • @charlesflouvat1829
    @charlesflouvat1829 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    £100,000,000 spent on lawyers might have been a clue?

  • @MrSatnavatron
    @MrSatnavatron 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Michael Walker being there , really is the cherry on the cake

    • @nezbrun872
      @nezbrun872 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just like a stopped clock, even a communist can very occasionally be right.

  • @roddersfiftynine
    @roddersfiftynine 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    How many months and hours spent with her lawyers has Vennels had to prepare for her three days before the Inquiry ? Hopefully Jason Beer will make sure she`s not allowed to waffle on. I wonder how many times we will hear "now answer the question I actually asked you please" from Jason Beer KC ? As often as Vennels says "I can not remember" or "I can not recall" ? She may well squirm out an "apology" but I bet the word "sorry" will not pass her lying lips.

  • @damianleah6744
    @damianleah6744 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    Arrogant, aloof , and morally bankrupt. They just treated innocent people like thieves. That was their default position.

  • @forsdykemontague1017
    @forsdykemontague1017 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    The Post Office is like a civil service government department, they don’t care less, talk about 4 people committing suicide as a result of Post Office indifference, there are 3,500 suicides at the hands of the DWP.

  • @marcwaller1760
    @marcwaller1760 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Why aren’t the judges who presided over these case under investigation?

  • @chrisfell5073
    @chrisfell5073 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It goes to John Mills (day 121) 1999 he coined "Robust" when knew the system had bugs and was defective. On that basis John Miller the CEO signed the contract. Mills later become acting CEO in 2003 when a joint Independent Expert(Coyn) was appointed who said the system must be full of bugs and defective. Mills signed & authorised £180k payoff and that report was buried (NDA) for 15 + years by the legal department. Mills said sorry 25 years too late. Mills also agreed he was incompetent!!!!

  • @fireskycam9889
    @fireskycam9889 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It was all about protecting the brand at all costs

  • @lindsayforbes7370
    @lindsayforbes7370 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Jeremy, you ask the key question. How come POL suddenly finds it has 900 criminals from 11,500 post offices?

  • @ParanormalUKNetwork
    @ParanormalUKNetwork 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm sorry, but I have to make a correction: at 1:40, it's NOT Royal Mail; it's the Post Office, which is a completely separate country. I'm not saying that RM is any better, but they were not involved in this.

  • @martinobrien7110
    @martinobrien7110 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    God Bless Mitchell & Webb .

  • @billmcle
    @billmcle 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Computer says "no"

  • @fireskycam9889
    @fireskycam9889 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    How could they be proud to have had any role in this

  • @frankcarter6427
    @frankcarter6427 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'll be glued to my latop for the 3 days of Vennell's testimony

  • @melvynofford272
    @melvynofford272 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Also if an IT system is not working correctly why is it always a discrepancy shortfall and never a surplus….

    • @elfboy29
      @elfboy29 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      It's a good point. The obvious answer is that some of those with the back door access were taking money from the postmasters, again and again. That's not to let off the management one bit.

    • @robdee9341
      @robdee9341 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Throw away the key...

    • @joerudnik9290
      @joerudnik9290 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I thought about that myself, if you are that incompetent it should give all kinds of variances.🤨It seems the POL desperately needed a profit ( to receive bonuses) and the found the desperate people, who would provide it. THE BRITISH INQUISITION.

  • @dogpound7162
    @dogpound7162 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I can guarantee that it won't be the very top people who risk prison, they may have to sacrifice some underlings though!

  • @pagliacci2942
    @pagliacci2942 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The problem here is where does the share of responsibility lie? How do you find out? These jokers don't even seem to care. Accountability is always the danger issue with corperations and institutions. Surely, if much of the conversations and meetings from the documentary can be verified, much of the blame and consequences should lie at the feet of Paula Anne Vennells, but not forgetting the previous head of Fujitsu from the UK HQ.

  • @johngal56
    @johngal56 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I suspect that the real reason all these bustards are stonewalling is that there's an unseen force telling them to do so. During the limited trials of Horizon early in 1999 Fujutsu was well aware that the system didn't work but wanted to get back the £350m development costs. The Labour government were made aware of the faulty system and Chancellor Gordon Brown wanted the who.e project scrapped in favour of tendering for another system. However, in Japan, Fujitsu's CEO sent an uncompromising note to Blair saying that if the government scrapped the contract Fujitsu would immediately pull out of the UK altogether. At the same time POL at first refused to sign off the contract given the negative data from the limited trial runs and demanded that the software be rewritten. Eventually POL were forced to accept Horizon with assurances from Fujitsu that any problems would be ironed out over time. Tony Blair has been mostly silent during the whole of this scandal but subsequent Tory administrations are not blameless either. They've all got blood on their hands.

  • @motiveintentionsincerity1925
    @motiveintentionsincerity1925 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The depth a person will go to for 'saving face' is phenomenal

  • @michaelwilliams8690
    @michaelwilliams8690 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Another one , not me governor, just jail him with the rest

  • @Mooneyes747
    @Mooneyes747 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The fact that he thinks two or three people may go to jail shows he just doesn't understand the magnitude of what has taken place. I feel the board members of both Post office and Fujitsu will never see prison. And if they don't it will show people that there is one law for the rich and connected and one for everybody else. The Post office scandal is everyone's worst nightmare the courts and judges must hand out maximum sentences in every case that comes before it of which there will be many. To do anything less will signal to the world that what has happened to the sub postmasters & mistresses is except able in our society. Compensation for the victims should also be coming from Fujitsu even if that means they go bankrupt. I also hope Mr Bates receives a knighthood in the future.

  • @kennethwalsh8804
    @kennethwalsh8804 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Why did Fujitsu's, back office feel the need to "" adjust" the figures ?

  • @juliet7703
    @juliet7703 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I ll be surprised if anyone goes to jail

  • @BLUESKY-zt1nv
    @BLUESKY-zt1nv 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Not a single one of them will end up in Jail ...Paula Vennells has had plenty of time to prepare for this enquiry and help from her lawyers ..get ready to watch Paula Vennells run rings around KC Beer and the rest of them .

  • @kennethsimmons2029
    @kennethsimmons2029 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As victim number 1 my big regret is not being aware of the 2700 others and I could have made so much better use of the CWU recognised Philips procedures in the Lee Castleton case if I had been aware of his plight

  • @24321619
    @24321619 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2 or 3 people he says at the end, I think he must mean 2 or 3 Hundred!

  • @Heather-zk5eu
    @Heather-zk5eu 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yes

  • @jimoconnor2594
    @jimoconnor2594 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Don't e-mail Jeremy, he gets upset easily

  • @audspod1
    @audspod1 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why wont any of these people just state the truth for God's sake!!

    • @debibuxton1335
      @debibuxton1335 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Because they are morally bankrupt...

    • @fireskycam9889
      @fireskycam9889 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They’re cowards with no shame or integrity

  • @MrTelboy1962
    @MrTelboy1962 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Bit more research required here, This enquiry is not about Royal Mail Group it's about Post Office Limited though the two companies were once linked. This doesn't come across as very professional journalism when you name the wrong company.

  • @nickjordanmedia
    @nickjordanmedia 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Royal Mail is not the subject of this inquiry. How sloppy.

  • @ronmacfarlane110
    @ronmacfarlane110 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Typical civil servant leaders

  • @leodoherty5304
    @leodoherty5304 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nothing to do with Royal Mail!

  • @MAPALMER20
    @MAPALMER20 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Post office not Royal Mail

  • @a.Mulligan
    @a.Mulligan 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Dear Mr Vine
    That is your greatest ever idea that l have heard you say: air bags on the outside of vehicles Ingenious! Trade mark it now Until all vehicles are banned from cities and replaced by trams🙏

    • @JB-wy8fc
      @JB-wy8fc 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Its a stupid idea. If you think it's smart theres something wrong with your brain. He wants airbags on the outside of cars ONLY because he's a cyclist

    • @debibuxton1335
      @debibuxton1335 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Me thinks Mulligan maybe using some sarcasm here..

    • @JB-wy8fc
      @JB-wy8fc 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@debibuxton1335 fair

  • @user-up3do8yo3z
    @user-up3do8yo3z 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Davies is a donut. Yes sure you protect public image but not covering up badness

  • @misterbonzoid5623
    @misterbonzoid5623 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Michael! Post Office Limited; not Royal Mail. You should know that duderino.

  • @maxxrenn
    @maxxrenn 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Video is wrong.
    Not the ROYAL MAiIL
    The POST OFFICE is a different company.
    Stop tarring the good name of Royal Mail

  • @SHADOW.GGG-
    @SHADOW.GGG- 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    stay away from real news and concentrate on your push bike

  • @joffey1212
    @joffey1212 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Jeremy vile should not be allowed to judge people

    • @JB-wy8fc
      @JB-wy8fc 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      But you should?

    • @joffey1212
      @joffey1212 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @JB-wy8fc compared to him yes , certainly

  • @eddriley1487
    @eddriley1487 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    No other options but jail time for EVERYONE involved in this conspiracy

    • @JB-wy8fc
      @JB-wy8fc 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Well you're definitely crazy

  • @dogzero1
    @dogzero1 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Vennels will lie and excuse her way through the enquiry. It will all be the fault of others and nothing to do with her. Mark my words.