Philip green!

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I couldn't believe what I read today.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8183763/Sell-one-yachts-Outrage-billionaire-Sir-Philip-Green-asks-taxpayer-help.html

Remember his wife took 1.2billion in dividends in 2005? They pay no tax as it's based in Monaco

Now he wants us to pay his staff?!? He took 864million last year?!?

Aibu?

I've boycotted him for years.
He's an entitled leech.

If the company is in dire financial straights, the nation could buy it. I believe £1 is the going rate.

If the taxpayer pays to keep it going and restore it to health, the taxpayer can float it back as a going concern. we might or might not make a profit, but it will save us the inconvenience of any profits disappearing over the horizon to a tax haven.

If he wants state support, he can ask Monaco.

Same with Virgin, Daily Wail, Torygraph, Murdoch empire etc.

No handout to tax-dodgers.

If the taxpayer pays to keep it going and restore it to health, the taxpayer can float it back as a going concern. we might or might not make a profit, but it will save us the inconvenience of any profits disappearing over the horizon to a tax haven.

Is there really a future for it ?

Sorry, but I am of an age to remember how much was pumped into British Leyland over decades and they never once made a decent car. By which I don't mean a decent model of car. I mean a decent car.

For now, fashion retailing isn't an activity the UK needs to protect as a national asset in the same way as power, water, telecoms and transport.

"For now, fashion retailing isn't an activity the UK needs to protect as a national asset in the same way as power, water, telecoms and transport"

It's certainly true that the British public is in favour of taking utilities back into public ownership. Nobody's asked them if they want to bail out tax-dodging shop owners.

Completely agreed with everything said here but my big issue is how on earth could you ever get people like this to pay for the consequences of their actions? He should pay his staff properly and compensate them for their financial loss as a result of covid but whilst he has money and owns businesses people will be prepared to work for him. Also, if he's not paying them, is it unfair to the poor people who work for him because they need a job, for the government to not give them anything? I guess my question, is how do you make him cough up (which he should)?

I don't think any footballers have actually been moaning, its just been set up by the tories in that usual 'please go after them instead of our billionaire tax dodging buddies' way