The Fall of Britain’s Most Hated Businessman | Investigators
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
- Journalist Oliver Shah investigates the rise and fall of Sir Philip Green, the former celebrity owner of Topshop and BHS and ‘king of the high street’, whose dodgy business deals threatened the pensions of thousands of staff.
00:00 Introduction
03:12 Sir Philip Green's Lifestyle
05:19 The Sale of BHS to Dominic Chappell
06:58 Confronting Sir Philip Green
09:33 The Collapse of BHS & Arcadia
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Inside the terror tunnels, most which the Israelis built themselves 🤷♂️
The time of extravagant fat cats is coming to an end.
Eat the rich!
also make a documentary on all children in gaza who suffered from this war.
Did they strip Philip Green of his knighthood - NO. Did he pay back all the shortfall in the BHS pension fund - NO. Did he pay UK tax on the £1.2 Billion he siphoned out of Arcadia - NO Did he get away with it - YES. I wonder if he's invited Baroness Mone onto his £100 Million yacht to compare notes?
Sounds like trump. 😮
Quite a lot like trump really - not quite so orange maybe, and a whole lot greasier.
@@moniqueengleman873
@@moniqueengleman873. I’m no republican but if trump was British his life would have been much easier!! All one needs is being friends with the royals and boom never going to jail
His daughter married the criminal Jeremy Meeks.
No they never have to.
The story still ends with a billionaire on his boat in Monaco and thousands of people out of work and cheated of there pensions
Same as Maxwell untill he supposedly fell over board
Should be in jail , terry hall was right, they use law to commit crime , these parasites have no conscience at all , mortally bankrupt.
Green and Maxwell both have something in common...@@pippaneil4632
On a yacht with his stolen billions AND his knighthood
Just my take, it made no real difference at all with Green, as there would never be enough money to adequately fund those pensions aligned with his firms. The firms and the pension plans were going to fail regardless of what Green did. Sad, but true. Welcome to a future that nobody expected or wanted.
The media are viewed extremely poorly, but it’s exposures like this that are vital to keep the Phillip Green’s in check when the Govt fail to do so.
This investigation is the sole reason why those poor people got their pensions
yep
that's because 90% of them are paid shills to their corporate masters - kudos to the other 10% with integrity
But they are not kept in check, they are actually multiplying, that's why we have to pay record taxes and retire at 71.
Did they get their pensions? Any source?
I was working for BHS over its last few years, and with hindsight, it’s no surprise that the company went under. Basically, nothing much had been updated or invested in for years. As staff, we were working with tills and other equipment from the late 90’s (for instance the tills still had a hardware button on them for paying by cheque) and if a customer wanted to order online, you were lucky if the ordering page would even load. This being the kind of thing which kept businesses afloat during the recession of the late 2000’s, you would think that they would have invested in it a lot more. I left BHS as it all ended and went to a much better retailer where there is regular investment and technology gets updated every couple of years. There is also a lot more availability of stock, and the difference is quite noticeable.
There is no way the people in power (government, rich) did NOT know what type of man he was. It appals me that the current government has the power to basically tell the King/Queen “these are the people we have chosen for Knighthood, Dame etc. This should remain with the Royals.
He set up an online shopping service at Arcadia,which he omitted to include a parcel tracking service,so customers often didnt receive their goods for weeks or if at all.Or when a refund had been given,so they did ok out of it.
When they shut Burton's in Great Yarmouth in 2013 we were still using fixtures and fittings from before he brought Arcadia, yet Topshop Yarmouth in its last year had a complete refit followed by a new floor a few months later. And of course you had the Outfit branch up on the retail park. Compared to the other shops in Yarmouth we were a museum yet often in the news letters and the six month newsletter we'd always read about and see pictures of Phillip hanging out with Kate Moss at one event or another
@@j.4332 Yeah and in Burtons we basically ramned the website down people's throats, poster on every other fixture, decals on the windows and doors, posters in the fitting rooms, sign on the counters. Both the area managers we had for Yarmouth now and again passed comment about trade being down but neither one would accept the fact that we were loosing it to the website and in some regards to the local outfit branch as well
BS... I spent 2014 closing down some Evans stores and the till POS system was as about as modern as you could get. It was the same system New Look and River Island were using.
It's not enough. These fraudsters need jail time, and serious repercussions.
hes jewish. as all the crooks are. they need exiling. since oliver cromwell let them back in britain, these parasites have turned out island into a ghetto
Dissection would be fairer.
They write the laws and own the legal firms, so that will never happen sadly...
Yes yes yes, please governments change the law!!!!
One could say that this is a bigger problem that requires an unpopular solution
Let me get this straight. He's a billionaire who lives in Monaco and has a superyacht. So he's got away with it, right?
Right!
He's also from that all powerful tribe!
Of course. Did you expect anything different?
@@The-Anti-Zionist 💰
@@traderboi2662 🤥☠️
How he's still in possession of that luxury yaught basically sums up all that is wrong with this country and how failed business men can put all their assets into another country and be protected. Its sickening to be honest. To pay his wife over a billion pounds, own a yaught himself worth a simular amount,just before everything he owns collapses around him, is sick. Many people really suffered in his wake, but finds protection in a tax haven of a country.
Funny how theyll detain Russian assets no problem though.
this is real journalism. keep it alive!
Real journalism?? Seems like TMZ with the ambush interviews
This is why journalists are needed. Stop corruption.
they didnt stop it tho , green took over a billion
Oh don’t be so quixotic. Soon you will tell me that still have the rule of law.
Rupert Murdoch, Disney and George Soros all bought Vice so they can control the narrative.. this journalist works for the The Times which is owned by Rupert Murdoch... They are just advertising his business (the times) for him
Lots of dodgy characters behind companies in the stock market. Look at AIM...
You are telling others to stop corruption for you, but they won't. What do you do to stop it?
As a non brit I am amazed that since Maxwell neither government has done anything to protect employee pensions, its cash to loot.
I'm also amazed nothing has been done about it.
Because people feel that Pirates owe them a living and are they seem to be indoctrinated that they are unworthy to get what is theirs. Otherwise that crook would have been drowned.
In my country the employer must deposit the pension payments into an account in the workers name monthly, and if he doesn’t the worker is notified. There is no such thing as unfunded pension liabilities.
Pensions are a scam and always have been.
Know you now what the ruling elites of the uk think of your average brit, not much.
Great investigative reporter. Keep up the good work. You are a rare gem. Ethics and professionalism. Well done 👏👏👏
This man ended clothing industry in London in the 90s. Arcadia was the company that started having clothes made abroad. The government (new labour) let him get away with so much. They literally forced clothing factories to close with new rules for clothing factories creating expenses they couldn’t afford. Thousands of workers lost their jobs, with no media coverage of what was happening.
He is exactly why pension law needs an overhaul in the UK. As does the ability to close a business with huge losses on a Friday and open as a new clean business on the next Monday.
I don't understand the second part of your comment. Care to elaborate?
Like the Chinese do it all over Europe? Putting all the expenses in business A (not paying taxes, etc.) and all the income in business B for a month. Then bankrupting business A with all the debts never to be paid off.@@peterporkeresq.2817
@@peterporkeresq.2817 File for bankruptcy on Friday and open another business on Monday.
He sold BHS in March 2015 and the company basically filed bankruptcy a year later in March 2016. So what did Green do that was wrong?
Green bought BHS for 200m pounds and sold it for one pound 13 years later. So how did he make a killing?
@@jumbleofwords That is not what happened.
He should be in prison. What a disgusting human being.
Not human.
hes jewish. hes immune to the law
Yep, instead he lives on a 100 millions boat with servant all around
@@tiloaloif you had that boat you wouldn't be here commenting 😂
@@donricco9336 so true!🤣😂👍
That’s heartwarming to see Oliver Shah go to such lengths to expose those pirates. Some people still care! Such a shame so many greedy people get away with stealing pensions.
My favorite high end clothing store went dark inside the Mall one day. I ran into one of the women who worked in the store, she had been there for many years, and asked her what happened. Turns out even this store owner bought a yacht, amongst other things, like cars, homes and other goodies. Things started to fall apart for him eventually and he had to declare bankruptcy. Of course all his employees were at the bottom of the list as far as their pays, holiday pays, etc., were concerned. I think this is what happens to a lot of wealthy business owners, they take so much money out of their companies that when a slump happens the rot starts to set in pretty quickly. They are usually ok, it's their employees who suffer the most. Not getting a pay cheque is quite serious for most people, not to mention being out of a job. A friend of mine also had a good thing going and was off on holiday constantly, working the odd time only, building a mansion, driving expensive cars, etc. but not paying his business taxes for several years. Finally having to face the fact that he was in deep trouble and no longer able to hide the fact that he owed a small fortune to the government - he died. All his offices closed. I remember clearly reading about CEOs and the money they were raking in when I was a secretary at a fitness club. This goes back more than thirty years or so. I asked my boss how this made any sense, or how anyone thought that this was fair. I did the math and this one guy was making about three thousand dollars a week. These days some of these CEOs make that in a minute, while the employees of the company have to go on strike to get a few pennies more a week. It is a skewed system that is not sustainable.
Terrific answer! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I could not agree more one bit! 🇺🇸
It’s baffling to me that people can be bold enough to defraud a whole country, but too insecure to answer to it.
Some call it Chutzpah...works like a treat. 🤫
Traitcarried by psicopaths
Your a "goyim"... they see you as cattle.
@@sheerluckholmes7720. I call it Judenfraud. More fitting to the crime.
The best question
Why is PG still out of jail?
Oh, yes, it’s shoplifting and protesting that require justice to be seen, not fraud and huge theft from ordinary working people.
rich people dont go to jail you dope jail is for poor people LIKE ME AND YOU
I know right. Now he lives on his 200m dollar yacht in Monaco, what a terrible price to pay for defrauding thousands of people
@@spitfireinvasion £100m not $200m, it was a bargain; and I finally learnt how to surf the interwebs. Best regards, Phillip.
@@spitfireinvasion having beef with law gets you roasted. juice on the other side..., far to slimy 4 this procedure
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@@LenaSchweizer-ff8xyRemember “ if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”.
I get so angry that corporations get away with this kind of stuff all the time. There's so much we aren't even aware of!!! Governments are hugely responsible for allowing this!!!
That's absolutely correct! 💯
That’s the problem the politicians are always involved with crooks but this piece of low life that he took all that money from the workers SHOULD BE IN JAIL NOT LIVING IN MONACO “RECLUSE “ YE MY A……S .
Because we live in global facsism, an age where we have a mariage between govts and corporations in every major country; which is the very definition of fascism.The corruption is a feature, not a bug. By payig tax, one is complicit in feeding the beast.......divestment and anarchistic self soveregnty is the only solution.
They are not allowing , they are maybe part if it all ?????
With their paws in up to their elbows......
Gime gime will never be out of fashion 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
He still ended up winning in the end. Retired on a yacht in Monaco.
As a pensions lawyer, this was a joy to see. A crooked employer get skewered using pensions law as a fork. Chappell is also now allergic to Brighton after the Pensions Regulator hit him with a £9.5 million sanction.
Chappell in fact jailed for a few years for tax evasion to be correct .
Which part exactly was what brought you joy? When the employers did not get their pensions back? Or when he tragically moved to live on his megayacht in Monaco?
@@xxCHALOMANxxChappell owes pensions in Brighton? I know Phil Green was forced to pay 400million to cover the BHS pensions, but what was it Chappell did in Brighton that wasn’t covered in the video?
Please can you explain why the pension protection fund didn't protect my final salary pension from Nortel (Northern Telecom) UK ?
Yeah ok pension lawyer my foot.
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A healthy business will make profits for its board, shareholders and employees. There's no reason to plunder it this way and bring misery to many people. Great investigative journalism. This is the British Press at it's best.
Great journalism. Well done for exposing that absolute snake of a man.
I think it's odd that you equate snakes with this man. Snakes have a place in the natural world that is useful. People say the same about pigs, cows and dogs. Why?
Exposed and free as a bird.
Exposed and free as a bird.
Don’t insult snakes. Scum is the only word for his kind.
If u r going to use the word snake, I prefer u use ‘snake turd’ for better context and relevance to this Greene critter.
This is why we need reporters like Oliver Shah.
Rupert Murdoch, Disney and George Soros all bought Vice so they can control the narrative.. this journalist works for the The Times which is owned by Rupert Murdoch... They are just advertising his business (the times) for him
Sounds like he’s got a 🐸 in his throat.
....to be killed 😂
Not funny. Shouldnt wish that on anyone.
"the fall" he's still insanely rich, he lives on one of the largest yachts in Monaco. I see him walking around Monaco from time to time shabby as hell in a tracksuit lol.
I’m afraid I had the unfortunate experience in meeting this man at BHS Bromley.
The arrogance of the man was something to be seen,after a member of the restaurant staff carrying out her duties cleaning tables politely asked Mr Green to extinguish his cigarette as he was smoking in a non smoking area...He looked up in disgust and said I can smoke here if I want I own the company, and with that he extinguished his cigarette in one of the doughnuts provided to him and his staff.
She obviously didn’t realise who he was .....I did... thinking what complete Bell End he was.
Lost his reputation but still has the billions of £s he swindled from the companies and lives he ruined. He still won.
Yes he has poverty isn’t reputable
He won big style! Sitting on his boat sipping fine wine and smoking big cigars.
Gillane Maxwell's father did the same with British pensions 😆
He’s turn into isolationist after his entire reputation was destroyed
@@karelglasner2673 Yes, and see how he ended up.
Unfortunately, Philip Green's story ends with a "he lived happily ever after", with his yacht and his millions. He's not even scratched the surface of the damage he caused.
Nope! He will never, ever be happy since, deep down, he knows exactly what kind of person he is...
@@walterbraun3731 He knows, but he doesn't care.
Excellent reporting. Well done Oliver.
Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, England,into a middle-class Jewish family. What a surprise...
He cheated on tax, pension fund, and still stay out of jail and keep living rich? How could you call it's a downfall?
The notion that billionaires are rich because they're "smarter" or "work harder" than the rest of us is proven more false every day. They are just ruthless and heartless and know how to extract wealth at everyone else's expense.
Just criminals
They are smarter at stealing smartly
It's a tribal thing ! 🙄
Over the course of my entrepreneurial career, I have known about seven billionaires. At least 3 came by their own massive wealth honestly. The rest I am not so sure.
@@alexp3752 If you have over one billion dollars it definitionally cannot have been earned "honestly", because it is impossible for a single person to work "hard enough" or "smart enough" to earn a billion dollars. The only way you can amass that much wealth is through exploitation of workers and skimming their surplus value.
I am sure there are billionaires who are nice people, but that's a separate question from whether or not they earned their wealth "honestly".
He was a pretty good entrepreneur and businessman in his earlier retail days. But the pensions' scandal was just pure greed. 😲
Great work thank you for your hard work.
my friend was a loss prevention officer in a BHS and was asked to go to the canteen get a portion of chips and then weigh them because it had been reported that they were giving away too large a portion and it was cutting into profits.
Lol wow, sounds about right.
Honestly??
I had a catering manager whose mantra was 'Watch those bloody portions!'
@terencejay8845
We feed em we don't fatten em.
My favourite.
Portions are meant to be weighed or measured. Otherwise, it's not a portion.
Shame on your freind for actually doing it lol
A very good and decent journalist. Shame that there aren’t more like him.
There were, they worked at the newspaper.
Especially in the UK, where there is so much tabloid journalism, and journalists seem to be more interested in Meghan Markle than the things taking place in the society
@@HH-gc4xqbecause it sells papers, perhaps if people stopped buying them they’d disappear. Worked for The News of World. Though chances are another could pop up in their place.
AGREED!!!!
@@HH-gc4xqAbsolutely, but there are plenty more like him, thankfully.
Great reporting. This guy looks like John Oliver but the little brother who took journalism seriously
Brilliant piece of journalism, thank you.
Fantastic coverage, all the scumbag businessmen need to be exposed like this.
Exposed??? What good does it do! When you have zero conscience it doesn't matter.
He is a Jboy and you & I are just a goyim to him. He keeps his wealth and you & I loose!
Who - don't answer that - knighted him anyway? Oh, he paid for that too!
they wouldnt dare talk about black rock
Take away their, Sir's dethrone them from titles., ✌️☘️
@@darugdawg2453 :)))). Black rock is a ''secret knowledge '' only for you :))). Otherwise ....not really .
Wow antisemitic much?
This is the prat who tried to force "staff discount cards" onto staff that were actually credit cards. Then force staff into debt, with him. Then force overtime to keep up with the payments.
Vile man
Bastard .
that is GENIUS 😂
Sounds like him
My friend ran a business abroad. Some characters rolled out to her, a card that you pay staff with. Basically, a slave card. I told her that she best tell them to go away. Unless she wants The SEC and AML/CTF and God knows who else dropping by for a chat. These clowns were telling her that the benefits were mostly, that she could hide money. They were legit, and believed it themselves. I would have schooled them, because they were just fools. But I was too busy schooling her.
Wikipedia: Early life
Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, England,[6] into a middle-class Jewish family.
Wow, how did I know that without even looking it up?
The pensioners are also to blame!
They need to hire a group of ex military, offer to sell his boat and assets until their pension are paid, or make him fish food!
The pension system in the U.K. is just a big joke. Pensions money should be taken out of responsabilities of corporations and managed from a garantted third source, like state insurances etc. No pension money (asset and liabilities) should ever sit in any company balance sheet (apart from the state insurance managing it off course)
Prisons are only for the very often innocent poor people that haven't got the money for a "good" lawyer, the rich (just like the police) will get away with murder.
Id love my state pension 6yrs from government..thanks 30k in their pocket thats just me!!😡
£400,000,000 to the pension scheme and £1,200,000,000 to himself. Unbelievable
That should not be legal
why the zeroes? Just say "bill" and "mill"
@@corpgov
_It makes the staggering difference more obvious - more zeros = more impressive._
Phenomenal reporting
Robert Maxwell should have been the wake-up call. Great piece of reporting by Mr.Shah.
The British really give the knighthood to any crook, don’t they?
Not just any crooks, some of the very worst.
Sir Jimmy Saville anyone?
There is a complete list online
Should be no surprise. Their entire existence is based on the ability to steal resources from others, then resell those resources at a mark up to the people they stole the resources from.
Our ruling elite are the biggest crooks.
Lord Black of Cross harbour. Also stole a pension fund in Canada. Still, and always will be,a lord.
Yes, they do, and that's one reason I don't have reverence for titles and royalty.
If the British state can sequester Russian yachts, it can sequester anyone's yacht.
This is one of the greatest things I've ever watched.
Great coverage thanks
Isn't it fascinating how journalism so often does law enforcement's job.
Not really, he didn’t break the law, he was just morally wrong
@@leonhenry4861because the system exponentially benefits the top earners more than anyone else
That's because a cop gets paid no matter how incompetent they are.
A journalist doesn't get paid unless they produce a good product.
What are governments and law enforcement doing worldwide to protect its citizens. Whose side are they on.
Yes the justice system is too complacent but he paid 400 million so I guess legally that was all demanded of him and however many people don't have pensions thats responsible management? Journalism has to mention always how they get away with it and that's a whole other story the corruption by courts and such also.
The whole honours system in the Uk is an absolute joke. Maybe only 1% of the people that really deserve them get honoured. Jacob Rees Mogg got a knighthood for pulling the UK out of the EU. Now what does that say?
Yes! Not to mention the disgraced former PM's Intern who was made a Dame for being 28, blonde and services that have never been clearly explained/
@@Andrew-vx2lswhat people don't understand is the monarchy is not what you think they are,they have long since been taken over by the banking tribe,let's say they signed over their privilege for war time debts centuries ago,notice how these bankers get absorbed into British and European nobility, they change their names and operate in the shadows of capitalism pulling levers that affect the world, they are driven by avarice and the power that comes with buying people, they have truly got out of hand and if you know what's going on in the world you will see them in all manner of current and past evil events.
They should go back to the roots of the title, and only give the title of knight to military officers who distinguished themselves in their service.
It says that the term "honours" is a misnomer
We are all pucked
Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, England, into a middle-class Jewish family. He was the son of Simon Green, a successful property developer and electrical goods retailer, and Alma. He has a sister, Elizabeth, five years his senior. His family moved to Hampstead Garden Suburb, a middle-class area of North London, and at the age of nine he was sent to the now-closed Jewish boarding school Carmel College in Oxfordshire.
I am not surprised.
I believe he is the reason we do not have much of a high street now. Legitimate businesses wanted to buy those stores but he took them and screwed them up. He is a total disgrace and should be in jail..
This video felt like the good old investigative journalism VICE used to be known for.
Lets hope this continues..
That's because it was The Sunday Times, not Vice.
Vice are just interviewing the journalist from the Times, who did the actual journalism. Vice has lost all of its decent journalists
Looks like it was out sourced, but not to worry vice will be back to the same ole crap that bankrupted them
..... Disney..... Impossible
It does but at the same time it is just a man who worked for the Sunday Times recounting his story of what happened. No journalism on Vice's part
UK Government needs to change the laws or keep expecting this to happen. Pensions should be protected and not able to be paid out to shareholders as dividends.
Regretfully I would be of the opinion that the UK Government are as corrupt as Philip himself. They all look after each other.
The UK government are as corrupt as Green
The tribe does what it wants backed by Rothschilds and their personal army Mossad!
They are happy for this
These are their donors
Needs? Philip Green is a Tory darling.
Sir Phillip Green is very personable and seems down to earth, despite his yacht, etc. Charming!
Engaging, articulate, well-spoken reporter. Appreciate correct pronunciation of "consortium."
This guy is a credit to the profession of journalism - major respect. Keep up the good work!
WE REALLY NEED REAL JOURNLIST LIKE THIS, THEY ARE LACKING IN THIS DAY AND AGE
They are low life bottom feeders. The despicable in pursuit of the despicable.
There's FAR more to this story than the public will ever fully know. Hush payments, corrupt blind eyes etc, the list is endless and the people staggering!
have you fed everything you know to Oliver Shah?
The UK has some of the biggest corruption on the planet. It’s a known safe haven
big up my cousin
oliver shah
This was similar to the “Enron” affair in the US. The big guys in the company where very friendly with both President Bush’s, which in a certain way protects them enough to say oh he wouldn’t do that right up until the Company collapses. These people definitely need to be put in Jail.
You've only got to look at his face - says it all. Sickening to see politicians and celebs toadying up to him .
You're saying I can just check the 'Early life' section on wikipedia?
... - No Neo, I'm telling you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
@@Unlucky-Dube at this point do you even need to?
They're all in the same club🤢🤢🤢🤮
The tribe of clean and honest journalists are very rare nowadays
Thx man good work
This is one of the most enjoyable and watchable short films on UA-cam - not surprising that it has 1.7m views.
He's in the league of Robert Maxwell, who too spent the latter days on his yatch in the Med (but jumped off it one night).
Bob Hoskins, God bless him, could've played him in on a screen version...
Omg he does look just like Bob Hoskins! That would've been amazing RIP Bob Hoskins
Mossad agents.
Robert Maxwell was killed by The Mossad. He blackmailed The Israeli Government, or tried to...............and got eliminated. The circumstances surrounding his death, were questionable, if not down right suspicious. So......according to the official report, he died of a heart attack, drowning was ruled out, since he only had a very little amount of water in his lungs ( not consistent with drowning ). It`s also claimed, that he was actually a Mossad Agent, and when you read about his life, that makes sense..................🤔
Dues
Maxwell didn't jump. He was pushed
SIR Philip Green is just an echo of the mentality of the upper class. How many people/slaves can you screw over for a new boat?
And the majority of the lower classes have the same instincts, just not the material position to help them realise it
Upper class??! He's a working class man who made some money. He's not upper class.
Some of us call them Lizard people, they are not human, they put on a human suit to be likeable. I would not trust anyone with titles and connections to the RF.
@@remotefaithnope.
As many as needed...
Wonderful documentary
Don't need a good reputation when you already have $1.2 billion tax free and I am betting he and his wife never had ethics or morals.
Obviously😂 you physically cannot have 1.2 billion without stealing others hard work and labour as well as having zero ethics or morals.
I know he got away with the money, but it’s a minor victory that he basically isn’t welcome in the UK and no celebs will want to associate themselves with him. He clearly loved being the centre of attention
I briefly dated a lady who worked for him in his top tier management team. She left his employment after a couple of years and had to take several months off to get over the stress of his management style. Some of the stories she shared were of a megalomaniacal bully but he instilled such loyalty in his staff they put up with it.
Green has the daughter, Chloe , who dated the criminal model, Jeremy (Mugshot) Meeks, be interesting to see how their child turns out...(Philip's Grandchild)
Thats the definition of a Sociopath/Psycopath
Loyalty lol, you mean fear 😂😂😂
@@rgsxyz1105
_Criminality and personality traits are often inherited and so your comment is very relevant._
You mean like the BBC hierarchy bowed and scraped to the scumbag Jimmy Savile? Savile and Green make a right pair . . .
In 2016 I was on holiday in the south of France with half a dozen friends and one day we visited Monaco and we were walking slowly through the Tunnel Larvotto (famous from the Grand Prix) close to the Yacht Club, when suddenly a little fat fellow with greased back hair and dressed for execise in shorts and trainers, power-walked his way through our group. When he was completely in the middle of us, someone said "Oh look, it's Philip Green". This was not long after all the scandals and he was not pleased to be recognised alone in public without a bodyguard. We didn't say or do anything threatening, but nor did we do anything to make him feel comfortable.
So in UK the companies manage their own pension funds? Oh boy, what can go wrong...
He lost millions of pounds in casino's. I worked at a casino he used to frequent, we used to pick him up from his private jet on a Monday and take him to the Dorchester where he stayed all week, on a Friday evening we'd take him back to his jet to fly back to Monaco where he lived, just to avoid paying tax. During the week he'd come to the casino most nights, when in London. I knew of one time, where he lost £9m in one night, he then returned the following night and lost another £5m, a total of £14m in two nights. That's probably where all the pension money went.
I need to own a casino its a good investment...
He looks (and acts) like a Gringott Goblin-Banker from Harry Potter
So, basically the guy hasn’t learned anything. He’s chilling on a yacht while his loyal employees are without their pensions!
A real journalist seeks to expose the truth and sticks to the facts. Great work
Prisons weren’t built for people like him, he’s proof that the system is fraudulent and broken. A vile specimen, if he was dying of thirst and I had a glass of water, I’d glass the C##T.
Lol
😂😂
Completely sympathise.
Where is Gavrilo Princip and Charlotte Corday when you need them?
Sir Philip Green employed exactly the same M.O. as Maxwell in looting the employee pension fund and the authorities seem to have learned nothing from it.
Indeed the authorities through their inaction are complicit in it.
nah that is wrong. I would drink glass of water, piss back into glass and sell him the contents.
@@thomasfromswindon7609 Absolutely, then give your wife a once off tax free dividend to boot.
I lived in Island Harbour, and this video has just made me realise what actually happened. For context Island Harbour is a total mess, there's about three blocks of flats, 2/3 remain unfinished. The harbour was polluted, and the place is a ghost town, to the point where the inhabitants don't get their bins collected because the 'owner' forgets to pay his pick-up bills. Thankfully I left rather quickly.
I'm in no shock that the man who made Island Harbour isn't able to run a business, he can't even build homes. Everyone hates him on the Isle of Wight.
I worked for this piece of work in the 1970's at his coat manufacturing factory in Lawrence Rd Tottenham. An absolute despicable man and his battle axe wife. He had his West End warehouse burnt for insurance money and the man who did the burning was a father of an England Manchester United football team captain. He sent this man to Focsani, Romania to work in one of his factories there so he was never interviewed by the police.
You seem SO proud of yourself for "distroying" him...sums up your character as well 😀
If anyone wonders how someone could do something like this, the man is a psychopath, and that is precisely what enables him to behave so grossly.
Most top business people are, but remember he did keep people in employment for a long time, even if it ended in catastrophe. Pensions were paid. He’s not unusual, but tge world has moved on and next we’ll be looking at the line of TATA who leverage debt to buy business, they make Green look like a street hawker.
Plus, it helps to have a psychotic, corrupt government like the current Tory crop we have now, to help him out.
Psychopath or sociopath?
Sociopath, he knows it’s wrong but he did it anyway.
He's not a psychopath, he's just a fat greedy little slug that bullies people because of his wealth. Get him alone, without his minders, and see how he crumbles. It would give me great pleasure to give him the sound thrashing he so obviously deserves.
I've never heard of journalist Oliver Shah. I think he's brilliant, incredible research level. He's also a great communicator, I was riveted by the story, his delivery of it and his voice... it's so easy to listen to.
All of them are in it together... until people take justice into their own hands it will never stop
This affected me personally as the partner of an ex-BHS employee of 20+ years and all the stress and financial worry that came with working for a company that was effectively run by someone akin to a crook. It's not just him we were angry with, it's the toothless government. The FSCS seems to allow companies to mismanage their obligations to pensioners who have been making their contributions and instead use their money for personal profit (or their Monaco-resident wives). Look at the current Post office scandal - absolutely nobody in positions of power ends up in prison. Sick to effing death with this sort of stuff, things need to change.
Shafting his former employees out of their pensions is worthy of a stiff prison sentence. Almost as disappointing is that Bob Hoskins is no longer available to play him in the movie.
Jayzus you're right, spitting image nearly
With the existence of A.I now becoming common where it can mimic the look and sound of a person id say anything can be possible to bring a recently passed on actor like Bob Hoskins back on screen, not just him but any well known actor/actress etc. Id kill to see marylin monroe up n about.
What about Danny Devito the penguin more like would be better Bob Hoskins was to good for that horrible man.
There is a movie loosely based on him. Greed came out in 2019 with Steve Coogan and draws heavily from PGs life and exploits
Why would you need Bob Hoskins? London still has a fair share of Phil Green look alike Toads
As i approach 73, i remember BHS as a little boy, going in there with dear mum, then in later years again using this store, green has taken those memory from me, and should now be serving jail time AND i believe it was only the threat of losing his knighthood that made him pay money back into the pension fund.
Lots of us have memories that have been taken. I’m in the US but things haven’t necessarily changed for the better
*His knighthood allows him to receive the best part of £100,000 per year from the British tax payer - yet does not have to visit the House of Lords, unless he wants to. Another fantastic system for the privileged.*
Oliver sounds like that mate of Fran's who used to read the Shipping Forecast
He's one of The Tribe; and this is how they've been doing business for Millenia.
I hate that the "fall" of the ultra-rich is a tarnished reputation of sorts they're forced to endure while still partying on a mega yacht, us plebs would be in jail for similar fraud.
Infatti he didn’t fall, the nastiest weeds are the hardest to k^ll 🤮
Yeah his wife was seriously affected by it all and had to go to therapy, ie a shopping spree where she paid £35.000 for 1 bag , scum of the earth.
@@joerouse6205 Can you even imagine the panic she felt went she even looked at the purses that were only £25.000 thinking "omg, what if I could only afford that bag... the embarrassment!"?
In my view, the fact that billionaires are allowed to exist shows a deep flaw in the economic models we live in. Economies that are geared up to reward the brutes, the tyrants, the greedy and the haves. I'm not a "commy" or a socialist but I do think there is a possibility for conscious capitalism where profit and growth are not the only measures of success.
Worse is that the prevalence of the usage of the word " billionaire" came into common usage during and right after the financial crisis of 2008!
It suddenly was seen as too common an aspiration to become a billionaire....a millionaire or tens of millionaire wasn't good enough.
And the hoarding of money and not moving around money so as to benefit even the arts of to be known like the Victorian philanthropists who provided housing for the poor.....these billionaires lack vision, style or whimsy. The making of the money has become the media and cultural attraction.....without explanation or censure by even the most left wing media as to how one actually " earns" billionaire status. Or the ethics or lack of within that dynamic.
Why has Phillip Green not been brought to justice? 😔😔😔
Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, England,[6] into a middle-class Jewish family.[7]
different moral compass
So he lives in Monaco and spends his time now on his boat. Good to see that justice finally caught up with him.
Interesting that halfway through the interview he just about admits that editors are influenced by personal relationships and hush up stories because of it. Normally journalists love to say they’re not at all influenced in such a way by their owners or editors
Who controls the country?
@@ChucklesMcGurkExcellent point.
It's certainly strongly suggestive of collusion with the so-called Fourth Estate isn't it.
You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours unless or until someone decides it's worth the cost of breaking ranks.
Not all of them - it tends to be editors that say that, and they also say that their proprietors have no influence with them. Ha! Tell that to Rupe Murdoch!
I have seen articles published in national papers that were in fact written by the subject of the article and not the supposed author/journalist.
Need to get that book 📖 👀
Oliver Shah good Journalist
Corporate greed always boils down to greed for personal wealth at the expense of anyone anywhere.