Sir Philip Green vs Select committee

[Cupramax]

Anybody else watching this? If you ever need a reason why we shouldnt let MP's run the country this is it. Its like a bunch of school kids questioning a headmaster some of the questioning is frankly pathetic. Philip Green is making them look like a complete bunch of monkeys.

[hornetrider]

Balls.

I'm actually listening to the Pistorius trial. Got a link?

[Cupramax]

Its live on BBC parliament.

[Vixpy1]

hornetrider said:

Balls.

I'm actually listening to the Pistorius trial. Got a link?

A choice between a ruthless man who attacked his victims hidden behind closed doors.... and Oscar Pistorius

[hornetrider]

Vixpy1 said:

A choice between a ruthless man who attacked his victims hidden behind closed doors.... and Oscar Pistorius

Found the link on the Beeb.

[hornetrider]

So, what I'm getting so far is Sir Phillip actually does nuffink and knows nuffink.

[honest_delboy]

This is bananas, no distinct line of questioning, just a load of he said, she said, this letter, that letter.

[gooner1]

hornetrider said:

So, what I'm getting so far is Sir Phillip actually does nuffink and knows nuffink.

His,Greens, selective memory is astounding.

[Smollet]

I watched some of it earlier on and the whole thing smacked of amateurism. A complete waste of time and money. One thing that totally escapes me is why aren't pension schemes ring fenced and protected by law from predation?

[JNW1]

I've been watching some of this and frankly Philip Green doesn't come across at all well IMO. The number of things he doesn't remember - or claims to have no knowledge of - frankly beggars belief for a man in his position and at one stage he didn't even seem to understand the question "what do you think the responsibilities of the sponsor of a company pension scheme are?". Although he's now making noises about making sure "everything will be sorted" (whatever his definition of that is!) I'm left with the distinct impression he'd have slid out from under altogether had it not been for all the public scrutiny he's getting...

[Smollet]

Oliver North looks pretty good compared to Green.

[XM5ER]

Smollet said:

I watched some of it earlier on and the whole thing smacked of amateurism. A complete waste of time and money. One thing that totally escapes me is why aren't pension schemes ring fenced and protected by law from predation?

Because then people like Gordon Brown and George Osbourne wouldn't be able to raid them.

[FredClogs]

The sooner we state jailing ****s like this the better. They wouldn't and don't stand for this stuff in most other developed countries, the guy is little more than a common thief, in fact he's lower than a common thief.

String him up.

[JNW1]

boxxob said:

TLDR: oily little fk?

On what I've seen today I wouldn't trust Philip Green as far as I could kick him! I'm absolutely fed-up with the number of times he's made comments to the effect "I wasn't directly involved", "Arcadia is a large organisation and I don't know everything that's going", "I wasn't in that meeting", etc. He takes literally mega-money out of the business as the head man so surely the book stops with him - if he didn't know some of the things he claims not to know he bloody well should have done IMO!

[hornetrider]

The live video link has disappeared off the BBC live page - anyone got a link? Is it still going on?

[BlackLabel]

Former BHS boss Sir Philip Green orders MP Richard Fuller to stop staring at him during a committee hearing. Mr Fuller replied that it wasn't his intention to make Sir Philip feel uncomfortable.

[JNW1]

hornetrider said:

The live video link has disappeared off the BBC live page - anyone got a link? Is it still going on?

Think you can see it on the link below although as I type proceedings are suspended!

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e81170bd-...

[treetops]

Only Lady Tina knows whats going on...

She's going to be called to account as the owner of the Taveta.

So it's time to put down those curtain catalogues for the new yacht and start swotting up quickly on how you've come by all this money!

One things for sure its going to be hilarious!

[crankedup]

Have lessons been learnt since the Maxwell scandal, seems not

[Greenmantle]

JNW1 said:

I've been watching some of this and frankly Philip Green doesn't come across at all well IMO. The number of things he doesn't remember - or claims to have no knowledge of - frankly beggars belief for a man in his position and at one stage he didn't even seem to understand the question "what do you think the responsibilities of the sponsor of a company pension scheme are?". Although he's now making noises about making sure "everything will be sorted" (whatever his definition of that is!) I'm left with the distinct impression he'd have slid out from under altogether had it not been for all the public scrutiny he's getting...

Phil is just using the same approach that Bob Diamond used when he was asked to appear. It seemed to have worked for Bob.

John