‘Paula Vennells partied whereas her vengeful regime destroyed lives’
It is a measure of the callousness of Paula Vennells that she might blithely occasion whereas stubbornly battling with wrongly convicted sub-postmasters.
The then Post Office chief let her hair down on the dance flooring in 2017 as she boogied to a visitor efficiency from Pixie Lott.
Pixie’s greatest hit was All About Tonight. But Ms Vennells is finest suited to the only from the singer’s third album – Nasty.
Nasty describes how harmless sub-postmasters had been hounded for cash they had been wrongly accused of stealing when Fujitsu’s duff Horizon IT system was responsible.
The shindig was held to have fun the success of the Post Office. Now we all know the “success” it chalked up was unjustly jailing those that labored for it and pursuing others into chapter 11.
And so as to add insult to severe harm Fujitsu’s lead programmer on the Post Office account acquired an organization award for profitability.
The Post Office was as soon as certainly one of Britain’s most cherished establishments. The vengeful regime Ms Vennells presided over has diminished it to one of the reviled.
And the revelation that Saturday deliveries may be axed is not going to enhance its standing. Sub-postmasters are actually on the cusp of the justice and compensation for which they fought so lengthy and arduous. We hope that in time the harm they really feel will recede.
The contempt during which Ms Vennells is held is not going to.
Steel hearted
Big business bosses simply don’t get it. A Tata govt obtained a £700,000 pay hike final 12 months taking his earnings to £1.6million.
At the identical time he was planning to make 2,800 metal employees redundant.
This newspaper isn’t in opposition to free enterprise. But we additionally imagine in equity. And it’s arduous to see how such a large rise may be justified given the massive losses in Tata’s British and Dutch operations.
It is a slap within the face for loyal employees about to be laid off and fearful how they are going to feed their households. Forty years in the past high individuals’s pay was 20 instances that of the typical employee. Twenty years in the past that had risen to 50 instances. Now bosses are pocketing 109 instances extra.
They award themselves these gigantic sums just because they’ll. Boardroom pay needs to be primarily based on success. And when corporations shed 1000’s of jobs that could be a signal of failure.
Pick and repair
We are nonetheless nostalgic for the 800 Woolworths shops which immediately left our excessive streets 15 years in the past taking decide and blend with them.
So excellent news from Germany the place the boss of the chain there says he desires to deliver Woolworths again to the UK. There’s not been a Labour authorities for nearly as lengthy. Let’s hope voters decide of what we’ve additionally missed.
