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A quite staggering and tragic story! Two key residual thoughts sprung to mind:
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So I would say she found out, and was subsequently complicit in the cover-up strategy. In which case it's PCoJ. |
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Morning orgers. Feels like winter here at the moment, with a cold northerly wind blowing. About time too, I'm not sorry to have some cold weather now. A bit of snow would be good!
The 38 Degrees petition to get Paula Vennels stripped of her CBE has now reached almost 1.2 million signatures. |
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We started watching the dramatisation yesterday, some of the details are horrendous. We've been following the story for a while (mainly from Radio 4) but the personal details of the individual's stories had not been so well known to us. There must surely be criminal wrongdoing behind some of the decisions taken.
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iir my sister worked on that and the failing was that they could not get a bit of middleware to talk between the software and database as it was both different houses. she also told me that there was containers full of custom built "pads" which were not fit for purpose. also the networking infrastructure in the NHS was abysmal at the time. i'm pretty sure one of the mates part owned the company. i do know he done a looooot of IT software for the NHS as well as the system that the police use.
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Took her long enough. Some legal action and criminal proceedings against those involved and responsible should be next.
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You could be right and I might be being too generous. But I have no evidence either way to be able to judge to that level of detail so (unlike some involved in this Post Office debacle it seems) I'm not about to specifically accuse individuals based on vague speculation. It needs proper investigation and sound facts. However, if she wasn't able to get past the internal political and cultural hurdles to expose the truth that we're discovering now then I think one of the other options I previously suggested will apply (i.e. incompetent or irrelevant), so I think my logical conclusion still stands that there is still no merit in being honoured. (And that's not to take away credit for any other positive accomplishments she may have that resulted in her nomination and award. It's just that I think a CBE recipient ought to be someone of demonstrably consistent high character and behaviour, and this blot is such a massive discredit that it can't be ignored in that context.)
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Morning all. Wet and grey here again. Bring back the frost and blue skies!
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