Sir Philip Green vs Select committee
Discussion
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 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.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 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-...
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
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