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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @VICENews
    @VICENews  Год назад +66

    WATCH NEXT: Inside the Hamas ‘Terror Tunnels’ Israel Has Been Bombing - ruclips.net/video/W4gDfSNMRx4/видео.html

    • @sanamo86
      @sanamo86 Год назад +2

      Will vice news cover the genocide in gaza, the stopping of water, electricity. The death of neonates in incubators as the power runs out. The murder of 1500 children by israeli forces. The established aparthiee regime, where palestinian rights are dehumanised

    • @troublemaker3455
      @troublemaker3455 Год назад

      Yh go straight in ur mum p

    • @steveday4797
      @steveday4797 Год назад +1

      Inside the terror tunnels, most which the Israelis built themselves 🤷‍♂️

    • @Gen.Khodakovsky
      @Gen.Khodakovsky Год назад +5

      The time of extravagant fat cats is coming to an end.
      Eat the rich!

    • @khanjeerox4580
      @khanjeerox4580 Год назад +35

      also make a documentary on all children in gaza who suffered from this war.

  • @artjacob5359
    @artjacob5359 Год назад +3033

    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?

    • @moniqueengleman873
      @moniqueengleman873 Год назад +160

      Sounds like trump. 😮

    • @johnmartin7919
      @johnmartin7919 Год назад

      Quite a lot like trump really - not quite so orange maybe, and a whole lot greasier.
      @@moniqueengleman873

    • @Szahra87
      @Szahra87 Год назад +190

      @@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

    • @scrappydoogal804
      @scrappydoogal804 Год назад +1

      His daughter married the criminal Jeremy Meeks.

    • @cryptostormer2512
      @cryptostormer2512 Год назад +23

      No they never have to.

  • @oro7114
    @oro7114 Год назад +1729

    The story still ends with a billionaire on his boat in Monaco and thousands of people out of work and cheated of there pensions

    • @pippaneil4632
      @pippaneil4632 Год назад +62

      Same as Maxwell untill he supposedly fell over board

    • @joerouse6205
      @joerouse6205 Год назад +70

      Should be in jail , terry hall was right, they use law to commit crime , these parasites have no conscience at all , mortally bankrupt.

    • @kebabtank
      @kebabtank Год назад

      Green and Maxwell both have something in common...@@pippaneil4632

    • @TWW-zk9gw
      @TWW-zk9gw Год назад +58

      On a yacht with his stolen billions AND his knighthood

    • @alexp3752
      @alexp3752 Год назад +7

      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.

  • @dartmoordave
    @dartmoordave Год назад +1302

    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.

    • @peterporkeresq.2817
      @peterporkeresq.2817 Год назад +6

      I don't understand the second part of your comment. Care to elaborate?

    • @editfazekas3854
      @editfazekas3854 Год назад

      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

    • @jumbleofwords
      @jumbleofwords Год назад +42

      @@peterporkeresq.2817 File for bankruptcy on Friday and open another business on Monday.

    • @joeblow2069
      @joeblow2069 Год назад

      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?

    • @joeblow2069
      @joeblow2069 Год назад +2

      @@jumbleofwords That is not what happened.

  • @steveharris2369
    @steveharris2369 4 месяца назад +61

    I walked right past him in Skiathos where he had his boat moored offshore. He was on his phone and, as I passed him, he said “ I’ve just trashed the f*****g regulator”. Just about sums him up. As Oliver Shah concluded in his book It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that Green’s a deeply unpleasant human being.

    • @mrb3673
      @mrb3673 4 месяца назад +5

      They all are. Especially the wealthy ones.

    • @TS-1267
      @TS-1267 3 месяца назад

      @@steveharris2369 ,,, His Dinghy 😄✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @jeffj2495
      @jeffj2495 18 дней назад

      He could care less what I think or what you think. He has the money.

  • @MaximusJohal
    @MaximusJohal Год назад +3222

    This is why journalists are needed. Stop corruption.

    • @kevintravis5123
      @kevintravis5123 Год назад +91

      they didnt stop it tho , green took over a billion

    • @guenthersteiner3311
      @guenthersteiner3311 Год назад +24

      Oh don’t be so quixotic. Soon you will tell me that still have the rule of law.

    • @Abuzwebstar
      @Abuzwebstar Год назад

      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

    • @armunro
      @armunro Год назад +24

      Lots of dodgy characters behind companies in the stock market. Look at AIM...

    • @aaaaaa2206
      @aaaaaa2206 Год назад +10

      You are telling others to stop corruption for you, but they won't. What do you do to stop it?

  • @LewisCowles
    @LewisCowles Год назад +1646

    It's not enough. These fraudsters need jail time, and serious repercussions.

    • @romeisfallingagain
      @romeisfallingagain Год назад

      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

    • @JulietCrowson
      @JulietCrowson Год назад +39

      They write the laws and own the legal firms, so that will never happen sadly...

    • @M3di3valG
      @M3di3valG Год назад +7

      Yes yes yes, please governments change the law!!!!

    • @The-Anti-Zionist
      @The-Anti-Zionist Год назад +15

      One could say that this is a bigger problem that requires an unpopular solution

    • @aljaliah6868
      @aljaliah6868 Год назад +16

      Who is going to jail them ? Their friend Boris Johnson ?

  • @blueyhis.zarsoff1147
    @blueyhis.zarsoff1147 Год назад +810

    As a non brit I am amazed that since Maxwell neither government has done anything to protect employee pensions, its cash to loot.

    • @redditanonymous-p9w
      @redditanonymous-p9w Год назад +26

      I'm also amazed nothing has been done about it.

    • @carlywright5127
      @carlywright5127 Год назад +27

      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.

    • @ellidavids2384
      @ellidavids2384 Год назад +53

      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.

    • @archiehickox6518
      @archiehickox6518 Год назад

      Pensions are a scam and always have been.

    • @barriewright2857
      @barriewright2857 Год назад +31

      Know you now what the ruling elites of the uk think of your average brit, not much.

  • @javid1969
    @javid1969 4 месяца назад +90

    I remember being parked in the West End he pulled up in a Merc giving me a dirty look he’s chauffeur comes over to me and tells me that’s Sir Phillip Greens parking space, it was a pay and display, I obviously told him to do one,

  • @hypernorm4802
    @hypernorm4802 Год назад +576

    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.

    • @murphychris9811
      @murphychris9811 Год назад

      rich people dont go to jail you dope jail is for poor people LIKE ME AND YOU

    • @spitfireinvasion
      @spitfireinvasion Год назад +47

      I know right. Now he lives on his 200m dollar yacht in Monaco, what a terrible price to pay for defrauding thousands of people

    • @SmokingLaddy
      @SmokingLaddy Год назад +10

      @@spitfireinvasion £100m not $200m, it was a bargain; and I finally learnt how to surf the interwebs. Best regards, Phillip.

    • @wolfgangeggert6736
      @wolfgangeggert6736 Год назад +3

      @@spitfireinvasion having beef with law gets you roasted. juice on the other side..., far to slimy 4 this procedure

    • @billtomson5791
      @billtomson5791 Год назад +5

      One hundred likes.

  • @ramiyazje
    @ramiyazje Год назад +682

    This is why we need reporters like Oliver Shah.

    • @Abuzwebstar
      @Abuzwebstar Год назад

      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

    • @awdobsession717
      @awdobsession717 Год назад

      Sounds like he’s got a 🐸 in his throat.

    • @donricco9336
      @donricco9336 Год назад

      ....to be killed 😂

    • @Turnpost2552
      @Turnpost2552 Год назад +14

      Not funny. Shouldnt wish that on anyone.

    • @gorillachilla
      @gorillachilla 4 месяца назад

      We don't

  • @falseking989
    @falseking989 Год назад +331

    It’s baffling to me that people can be bold enough to defraud a whole country, but too insecure to answer to it.

  • @thetwitterlectual9528
    @thetwitterlectual9528 Год назад +96

    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.

    • @rosemarymonty5399
      @rosemarymonty5399 11 месяцев назад +10

      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.

    • @j.4332
      @j.4332 9 месяцев назад +2

      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.

    • @plonkersbro
      @plonkersbro 9 месяцев назад +4

      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

    • @plonkersbro
      @plonkersbro 9 месяцев назад

      @@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

    • @nudisco3006
      @nudisco3006 8 месяцев назад +2

      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.

  • @bobikdylan
    @bobikdylan Год назад +525

    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?

  • @DRKrust492
    @DRKrust492 Год назад +245

    Lost his reputation but still has the billions of £s he swindled from the companies and lives he ruined. He still won.

    • @MarjorieWong-ym3ft
      @MarjorieWong-ym3ft Год назад +2

      Yes he has poverty isn’t reputable

    • @lordelpus2099
      @lordelpus2099 Год назад +14

      He won big style! Sitting on his boat sipping fine wine and smoking big cigars.

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Год назад +6

      Gillane Maxwell's father did the same with British pensions 😆

    • @parunox1702
      @parunox1702 Год назад +4

      He’s turn into isolationist after his entire reputation was destroyed

    • @YoBoyMarcus
      @YoBoyMarcus Год назад

      @@karelglasner2673 Yes, and see how he ended up.

  • @graemethelaw
    @graemethelaw Год назад +920

    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.

    • @serenityinside1
      @serenityinside1 Год назад

      Chappell in fact jailed for a few years for tax evasion to be correct .

    • @xxCHALOMANxx
      @xxCHALOMANxx Год назад +66

      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?

    • @celondelon351
      @celondelon351 Год назад +17

      @@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?

    • @PJ-om2wq
      @PJ-om2wq Год назад +16

      Please can you explain why the pension protection fund didn't protect my final salary pension from Nortel (Northern Telecom) UK ?

    • @patmash
      @patmash Год назад +13

      Yeah ok pension lawyer my foot.

  • @gudgengrebe
    @gudgengrebe 11 месяцев назад +22

    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.

  • @jessegriffin9
    @jessegriffin9 Год назад +123

    He cheated on tax, pension fund, and still stay out of jail and keep living rich? How could you call it's a downfall?

  • @chrisc475
    @chrisc475 Год назад +121

    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.

    • @walterbraun3731
      @walterbraun3731 9 месяцев назад

      Nope! He will never, ever be happy since, deep down, he knows exactly what kind of person he is...

    • @chrisc475
      @chrisc475 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@walterbraun3731 He knows, but he doesn't care.

  • @M3di3valG
    @M3di3valG Год назад +470

    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!!!

    • @XRP747E
      @XRP747E Год назад +12

      That's absolutely correct! 💯

    • @camelofarrugia4376
      @camelofarrugia4376 Год назад

      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 .

    • @RedPillDiaries
      @RedPillDiaries Год назад

      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.

    • @dianet888
      @dianet888 Год назад

      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 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

    • @SGTSLACKASS
      @SGTSLACKASS Год назад +11

      He still ended up winning in the end. Retired on a yacht in Monaco.

  • @kadiryoruk4076
    @kadiryoruk4076 11 месяцев назад +62

    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.

    • @Caskchap
      @Caskchap 4 месяца назад +3

      Sounds like New Labour all over.

    • @djj6452
      @djj6452 4 месяца назад +2

      And Rupert Murdoch!! Villains .

    • @TS-1267
      @TS-1267 3 месяца назад

      ... And Let the Asian Criminal Tax Evaders in

  • @yetidodger6650
    @yetidodger6650 Год назад +134

    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.

    • @joerouse6205
      @joerouse6205 Год назад +12

      Honestly??

    • @terencejay8845
      @terencejay8845 Год назад +11

      I had a catering manager whose mantra was 'Watch those bloody portions!'

    • @dougdownunder5622
      @dougdownunder5622 Год назад +10

      ​@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.

    • @Lee-ke9mx
      @Lee-ke9mx Год назад +4

      Shame on your freind for actually doing it lol

    • @alexnelson9512
      @alexnelson9512 Год назад +4

      @@Lee-ke9mx
      It went with the job! If you want to keep your job, you do what you are told.

  • @zxrcanada
    @zxrcanada Год назад +648

    Fantastic coverage, all the scumbag businessmen need to be exposed like this.

    • @touchofgrey5372
      @touchofgrey5372 Год назад

      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!

    • @darugdawg2453
      @darugdawg2453 Год назад +23

      they wouldnt dare talk about black rock

    • @deeppurple883
      @deeppurple883 Год назад +10

      Take away their, Sir's dethrone them from titles., ✌️☘️

    • @cooltrades7469
      @cooltrades7469 Год назад +5

      @@darugdawg2453 :)))). Black rock is a ''secret knowledge '' only for you :))). Otherwise ....not really .

    • @jingoist-sj8gj
      @jingoist-sj8gj Год назад +1

      Wow antisemitic much?

  • @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs
    @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs Год назад +237

    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.

    • @thomasshepard6030
      @thomasshepard6030 Год назад +22

      Just criminals

    • @MarjorieWong-ym3ft
      @MarjorieWong-ym3ft Год назад +14

      They are smarter at stealing smartly

    • @sheerluckholmes7720
      @sheerluckholmes7720 Год назад +8

      It's a tribal thing ! 🙄

    • @alexp3752
      @alexp3752 Год назад +8

      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.

    • @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs
      @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs Год назад +16

      @@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".

  • @annettehellingrath8288
    @annettehellingrath8288 11 месяцев назад +29

    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.

    • @IFEELWaysAboutStuff
      @IFEELWaysAboutStuff 10 месяцев назад +1

      Terrific answer! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I could not agree more one bit! 🇺🇸

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 3 месяца назад

      It's an "unsustainable system" that's here for good.

    • @Rikki-lh2mw
      @Rikki-lh2mw 2 месяца назад

      Sad

  • @Shybairnsgetnowt1
    @Shybairnsgetnowt1 Год назад +612

    A very good and decent journalist. Shame that there aren’t more like him.

    • @zAlaska
      @zAlaska Год назад +1

      There were, they worked at the newspaper.

    • @HelenH-gc4xq
      @HelenH-gc4xq Год назад +23

      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

    • @celondelon351
      @celondelon351 Год назад

      @@HelenH-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.

    • @1unsung971
      @1unsung971 Год назад +4

      AGREED!!!!

    • @user-mq7vf9me3y
      @user-mq7vf9me3y Год назад +6

      @@HelenH-gc4xqAbsolutely, but there are plenty more like him, thankfully.

  • @OliCM3
    @OliCM3 Год назад +302

    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

    • @icyx9268
      @icyx9268 9 месяцев назад +2

      yep

    • @richieroma
      @richieroma 9 месяцев назад

      that's because 90% of them are paid shills to their corporate masters - kudos to the other 10% with integrity

    • @johnyossarian9059
      @johnyossarian9059 6 месяцев назад +1

      Did they get their pensions? Any source?

    • @OsirisEyeOpticalSociety
      @OsirisEyeOpticalSociety 4 месяца назад

      Nope, he still got the money & the people got f**ked. The medias purpose is to make it look like they're investigating.

    • @TheHoneyBadger12
      @TheHoneyBadger12 4 месяца назад +2

      @@johnyossarian9059he tells you. He paid 400M into pensions. But he still lives on a yacht In Monaco as a billionaire so he wins

  • @DeleteTheWeak
    @DeleteTheWeak Год назад +374

    Great journalism. Well done for exposing that absolute snake of a man.

    • @garyburchgb
      @garyburchgb Год назад +8

      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?

    • @peterwilson5528
      @peterwilson5528 Год назад +3

      Exposed and free as a bird.

    • @peterwilson5528
      @peterwilson5528 Год назад +1

      Exposed and free as a bird.

    • @ronanmc2112
      @ronanmc2112 Год назад +2

      Don’t insult snakes. Scum is the only word for his kind.

    • @squidjames7735
      @squidjames7735 11 месяцев назад

      If u r going to use the word snake, I prefer u use ‘snake turd’ for better context and relevance to this Greene critter.

  • @misapisa519
    @misapisa519 8 месяцев назад +31

    this is real journalism. keep it alive!

    • @Dranreb865
      @Dranreb865 6 месяцев назад

      Real journalism?? Seems like TMZ with the ambush interviews

  • @kevinwhelan9607
    @kevinwhelan9607 Год назад +215

    This guy is a credit to the profession of journalism - major respect. Keep up the good work!

    • @sheila-we7em
      @sheila-we7em 11 месяцев назад +2

      WE REALLY NEED REAL JOURNLIST LIKE THIS, THEY ARE LACKING IN THIS DAY AND AGE

    • @SopwithTheCamel
      @SopwithTheCamel 8 месяцев назад

      ⁠They are low life bottom feeders. The despicable in pursuit of the despicable.

    • @nl5828
      @nl5828 3 месяца назад +1

      its just a shame he works for rupert murdoch, so his journalistic motivations need to be considered.

  • @12345fowler
    @12345fowler Год назад +51

    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)

    • @petermastenbroek7719
      @petermastenbroek7719 Год назад

      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.

    • @maggi0310
      @maggi0310 Год назад

      Id love my state pension 6yrs from government..thanks 30k in their pocket thats just me!!😡

  • @Lee_303
    @Lee_303 Год назад +115

    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.

    • @devorah935
      @devorah935 Год назад +17

      Vile man

    • @joerouse6205
      @joerouse6205 Год назад

      Bastard .

    • @donricco9336
      @donricco9336 Год назад +8

      that is GENIUS 😂

    • @jamesenglish102
      @jamesenglish102 Год назад +3

      Sounds like him

    • @IanMay-g5u
      @IanMay-g5u Год назад +5

      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.

  • @australiainfelix7307
    @australiainfelix7307 3 месяца назад +3

    I'm heartened to see many commentators understand that Green is one of the "you know whos" even though Vice can't bring themselves to delve into it. His "early background" is the key.

  • @markwat5958
    @markwat5958 Год назад +187

    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.

    • @rgsxyz1105
      @rgsxyz1105 Год назад +18

      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)

    • @martinjohansson7365
      @martinjohansson7365 Год назад +17

      Thats the definition of a Sociopath/Psycopath

    • @leonhenry4861
      @leonhenry4861 Год назад +16

      Loyalty lol, you mean fear 😂😂😂

    • @alexnelson9512
      @alexnelson9512 Год назад +10

      @@rgsxyz1105
      _Criminality and personality traits are often inherited and so your comment is very relevant._

    • @FissionChips
      @FissionChips Год назад

      You mean like the BBC hierarchy bowed and scraped to the scumbag Jimmy Savile? Savile and Green make a right pair . . .

  • @richmoves
    @richmoves Год назад +26

    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.

  • @PushyPawn
    @PushyPawn Год назад +501

    This video felt like the good old investigative journalism VICE used to be known for.
    Lets hope this continues..

    • @biggusdickus5216
      @biggusdickus5216 Год назад +2

      That's because it was The Sunday Times, not Vice.

    • @oliversaxon8656
      @oliversaxon8656 Год назад

      Vice are just interviewing the journalist from the Times, who did the actual journalism. Vice has lost all of its decent journalists

    • @bluethunder5694
      @bluethunder5694 Год назад +15

      Looks like it was out sourced, but not to worry vice will be back to the same ole crap that bankrupted them

    • @thymeegraze3382
      @thymeegraze3382 Год назад +3

      ..... Disney..... Impossible

    • @joeldeakin2003
      @joeldeakin2003 Год назад +20

      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

  • @Gamble4-26
    @Gamble4-26 11 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @fokana1
    @fokana1 Год назад +64

    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.

    • @lv2465
      @lv2465 Год назад

      Regretfully I would be of the opinion that the UK Government are as corrupt as Philip himself. They all look after each other.

    • @Dan-jg7zl
      @Dan-jg7zl Год назад

      The UK government are as corrupt as Green

    • @coffee6783
      @coffee6783 Год назад

      The tribe does what it wants backed by Rothschilds and their personal army Mossad!

    • @RankinMsP
      @RankinMsP Год назад +3

      They are happy for this
      These are their donors

    • @Nickbaldeagle02
      @Nickbaldeagle02 Год назад +3

      Needs? Philip Green is a Tory darling.

  • @thesteveo1975
    @thesteveo1975 Год назад +48

    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!

    • @paulcave67
      @paulcave67 Год назад

      have you fed everything you know to Oliver Shah?

    • @PlutoTheGod
      @PlutoTheGod 11 месяцев назад

      The UK has some of the biggest corruption on the planet. It’s a known safe haven

  • @RavitShrivastav
    @RavitShrivastav Год назад +102

    The British really give the knighthood to any crook, don’t they?

    • @anthonyberry9132
      @anthonyberry9132 Год назад +16

      Not just any crooks, some of the very worst.
      Sir Jimmy Saville anyone?
      There is a complete list online

    • @johnallenbailey1103
      @johnallenbailey1103 Год назад

      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.

    • @emil_rainbow
      @emil_rainbow Год назад

      Our ruling elite are the biggest crooks.

    • @chrisscott1958
      @chrisscott1958 Год назад +4

      Lord Black of Cross harbour. Also stole a pension fund in Canada. Still, and always will be,a lord.

    • @veronicamoody3981
      @veronicamoody3981 Год назад +5

      Yes, they do, and that's one reason I don't have reverence for titles and royalty.

  • @tasty_fish
    @tasty_fish 6 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @tonyradmilovich3154
    @tonyradmilovich3154 Год назад +93

    Isn't it fascinating how journalism so often does law enforcement's job.

    • @leonhenry4861
      @leonhenry4861 Год назад +2

      Not really, he didn’t break the law, he was just morally wrong

    • @jurassicthunder
      @jurassicthunder Год назад +7

      ​@@leonhenry4861because the system exponentially benefits the top earners more than anyone else

    • @fireskycam9889
      @fireskycam9889 11 месяцев назад +2

      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.

    • @mckoz523
      @mckoz523 11 месяцев назад +1

      What are governments and law enforcement doing worldwide to protect its citizens. Whose side are they on.

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 10 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @graememudie7921
    @graememudie7921 Год назад +41

    £400,000,000 to the pension scheme and £1,200,000,000 to himself. Unbelievable

    • @corpgov
      @corpgov Год назад +5

      why the zeroes? Just say "bill" and "mill"

    • @alexnelson9512
      @alexnelson9512 Год назад +2

      @@corpgov
      _It makes the staggering difference more obvious - more zeros = more impressive._

  • @deveyous6614
    @deveyous6614 Год назад +178

    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?

    • @remotefaith
      @remotefaith Год назад +15

      And the majority of the lower classes have the same instincts, just not the material position to help them realise it

    • @RockDove5212
      @RockDove5212 Год назад +16

      Upper class??! He's a working class man who made some money. He's not upper class.

    • @annetoronto5474
      @annetoronto5474 Год назад +12

      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.

    • @dougie1968
      @dougie1968 Год назад +1

      ​@@remotefaithnope.

    • @edeledeledel5490
      @edeledeledel5490 Год назад

      As many as needed...

  • @CM-eg3gl
    @CM-eg3gl 4 месяца назад +1

    That's what journalism is all about. Well done mate from Ireland.

  • @johnpatrick1588
    @johnpatrick1588 Год назад +107

    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.

    • @jewsaregenocidalhores
      @jewsaregenocidalhores Год назад

      Obviously😂 you physically cannot have 1.2 billion without stealing others hard work and labour as well as having zero ethics or morals.

    • @RonniePickeringMate
      @RonniePickeringMate 8 месяцев назад

      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

  • @questioneverything0
    @questioneverything0 Год назад +84

    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.

    • @brettharter143
      @brettharter143 10 месяцев назад +5

      Funny how theyll detain Russian assets no problem though.

    • @aloysiussnailchaser272
      @aloysiussnailchaser272 4 месяца назад +2

      I wouldn’t describe him as a failed businessman. On the contrary - he was extremely successful. He just took capitalism to its extreme at the expense of those who worked for him, and now he’s living out his days in the lap of luxury. He’s an utter rogue, for sure, but he got away with it.

  • @markmurphy7698
    @markmurphy7698 Год назад +89

    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?

    • @Andrew-vx2ls
      @Andrew-vx2ls Год назад +15

      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/

    • @selassietetevie4966
      @selassietetevie4966 Год назад

      ​@@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.

    • @arx3516
      @arx3516 Год назад +9

      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.

    • @cocoyeabroom
      @cocoyeabroom Год назад +3

      It says that the term "honours" is a misnomer

    • @crimsonpirate1710
      @crimsonpirate1710 Год назад +2

      We are all pucked

  • @marc21091
    @marc21091 11 месяцев назад +3

    This is one of the most enjoyable and watchable short films on RUclips - not surprising that it has 1.7m views.

  • @anilachar323
    @anilachar323 Год назад +75

    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...

    • @thekidd7
      @thekidd7 Год назад +9

      Omg he does look just like Bob Hoskins! That would've been amazing RIP Bob Hoskins

    • @DennisTheMenace-1999
      @DennisTheMenace-1999 Год назад +1

      Mossad agents.

    • @onkelmarvin8360
      @onkelmarvin8360 Год назад

      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..................🤔

    • @stevesullivan4704
      @stevesullivan4704 Год назад +8

      Dues

    • @jumhed994
      @jumhed994 Год назад +9

      Maxwell didn't jump. He was pushed

  • @MrGorobu
    @MrGorobu Год назад +149

    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.

    • @lizroberts1569
      @lizroberts1569 Год назад

      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.

    • @56postoffice
      @56postoffice Год назад

      Plus, it helps to have a psychotic, corrupt government like the current Tory crop we have now, to help him out.

    • @garyburchgb
      @garyburchgb Год назад +1

      Psychopath or sociopath?

    • @leonhenry4861
      @leonhenry4861 Год назад +4

      Sociopath, he knows it’s wrong but he did it anyway.

    • @semperidem2577
      @semperidem2577 Год назад

      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.

  • @polomints2586
    @polomints2586 Год назад +23

    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.

  • @ilikethiskindatube
    @ilikethiskindatube 8 месяцев назад +9

    Green was born on 15 March 1952 in Croydon, England,[6] into a middle-class Jewish family.[7]

    • @valuetraveler2026
      @valuetraveler2026 7 месяцев назад +8

      different moral compass

    • @strongbird3499
      @strongbird3499 3 месяца назад +3

      Typical Pisces.

    • @vihodanyet
      @vihodanyet 3 месяца назад

      What do you expect when you live in a country where Cape Verdeans are running everything..

  • @carlosdeno
    @carlosdeno Год назад +155

    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.

    • @streetfashiontv9149
      @streetfashiontv9149 Год назад +10

      Lol

    • @mickydroyboy1542
      @mickydroyboy1542 Год назад +8

      😂😂

    • @chamberpot969
      @chamberpot969 Год назад +10

      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.

    • @thomasfromswindon7609
      @thomasfromswindon7609 Год назад +7

      nah that is wrong. I would drink glass of water, piss back into glass and sell him the contents.

    • @gulfstream7235
      @gulfstream7235 Год назад +2

      @@thomasfromswindon7609 Absolutely, then give your wife a once off tax free dividend to boot.

  • @1258-Eckhart
    @1258-Eckhart Год назад +22

    If the British state can sequester Russian yachts, it can sequester anyone's yacht.

  • @standoughope
    @standoughope Год назад +67

    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.

    • @jewsaregenocidalhores
      @jewsaregenocidalhores Год назад

      Infatti he didn’t fall, the nastiest weeds are the hardest to k^ll 🤮

    • @joerouse6205
      @joerouse6205 Год назад +3

      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.

    • @standoughope
      @standoughope Год назад

      @@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!"?

  • @yellowlynx
    @yellowlynx 10 месяцев назад +3

    This is why there is backfire against (unhinged) capitalism - the greed is actually encouraged by politicians in UK who received donations from big businesses.

  • @Borgie31
    @Borgie31 Год назад +24

    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.

    • @jevonwilliams4579
      @jevonwilliams4579 Год назад

      I need to own a casino its a good investment...

    • @dexterkinsella6843
      @dexterkinsella6843 Год назад +1

      He looks (and acts) like a Gringott Goblin-Banker from Harry Potter

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 Год назад +74

    Quite an unfortunate turn of events, glad that good reporting exposed the fraud of this businessman.

  • @HM-mw7cg
    @HM-mw7cg Год назад +73

    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

    • @illegalsmirf
      @illegalsmirf Год назад +1

      Who controls the country?

    • @gerhard7323
      @gerhard7323 Год назад

      ​@solomongrundy145Excellent point.

    • @gerhard7323
      @gerhard7323 Год назад

      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.

    • @edeledeledel5490
      @edeledeledel5490 Год назад +1

      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!

    • @DanTube2010
      @DanTube2010 Год назад

      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.

  • @earealestate2961
    @earealestate2961 Месяц назад

    Well-structured and engaging! The level of detail in this video makes it a great resource for anyone looking to learn more on the topic.

  • @prasadpasumarthy2965
    @prasadpasumarthy2965 Год назад +6

    The tribe of clean and honest journalists are very rare nowadays

  • @williamkennedy5492
    @williamkennedy5492 Год назад +37

    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.

    • @dittohead7044
      @dittohead7044 Год назад +2

      Lots of us have memories that have been taken. I’m in the US but things haven’t necessarily changed for the better

    • @alexnelson9512
      @alexnelson9512 Год назад +6

      *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.*

  • @TL-xw6fh
    @TL-xw6fh Год назад +34

    Once a crook, always a crook. How all the celebrities, royalty and politicians must be hiding away in shame right now.

    • @ax3226
      @ax3226 Год назад

      Celebrities, politicians, royalty’s and shame! You joking right 😂
      Most of them are cons or peadophiles

    • @anthonyberry9132
      @anthonyberry9132 Год назад +1

      They have zero shame,mores the pity.

    • @wayneandrews9298
      @wayneandrews9298 Год назад

      are you serious , they are all the same , didn't you see him lording it with another one of his race & convicted pedo ..

    • @MarjorieWong-ym3ft
      @MarjorieWong-ym3ft Год назад +1

      They are of the same ilk

    • @leoleo6692
      @leoleo6692 Год назад

      Some probably think/feel that anyone could be a crook, how were they to know. Many just hate you and me anyway 🤷‍♂. Many are probably pretty normal and regret any association ?

  • @JoelMLdf
    @JoelMLdf 3 месяца назад +3

    What a great journalist, for real, thats amazing

  • @migueldoliveiracomposer
    @migueldoliveiracomposer Год назад +14

    Oliver Shah is a journalism Hero.
    He's the real TopMan.

  • @LordOfLight
    @LordOfLight Год назад +13

    So he lives in Monaco and spends his time now on his boat. Good to see that justice finally caught up with him.

  • @ke9988
    @ke9988 Год назад +11

    Corporate greed always boils down to greed for personal wealth at the expense of anyone anywhere.

  • @BATT_DAMON
    @BATT_DAMON 4 месяца назад +8

    UK public getting mugged? Surely not.

  • @biffski01
    @biffski01 Год назад +77

    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.

    • @gulfstream7235
      @gulfstream7235 Год назад +6

      Jayzus you're right, spitting image nearly

    • @nicktubara
      @nicktubara Год назад

      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.

    • @jaynelane7772
      @jaynelane7772 Год назад +5

      What about Danny Devito the penguin more like would be better Bob Hoskins was to good for that horrible man.

    • @ProfFrink11
      @ProfFrink11 Год назад +4

      There is a movie loosely based on him. Greed came out in 2019 with Steve Coogan and draws heavily from PGs life and exploits

    • @francgmaj
      @francgmaj Год назад +4

      Why would you need Bob Hoskins? London still has a fair share of Phil Green look alike Toads

  • @stevehughes1510
    @stevehughes1510 Год назад +22

    Oliver did a good job uncovering the greed and malfeasance, relatively easy to do when you put effort into it.

  • @StillAliveAndKicking_
    @StillAliveAndKicking_ Год назад +24

    I met someone who had been a manager under Sir Phil Greed. She said he was an awful man.

    • @dolphin069
      @dolphin069 Год назад +7

      Ditto. The whole MO was asset stripping valuable but failing enterprise.

    • @plonkersbro
      @plonkersbro 9 месяцев назад

      I worked in a couple of Burton's and the stress that used to come down the chain made me glad i never got the trainee management I didn't realise I was applying for at the time. Management used to get bonus for hitting the store card every six months which around 2010 was taken away yet he was still getting at least £10 per account that was opened

  • @alex_yates
    @alex_yates 11 месяцев назад +7

    He's one of The Tribe; and this is how they've been doing business for Millenia.

  • @nadinesmith-jensen7732
    @nadinesmith-jensen7732 Год назад +22

    So, basically the guy hasn’t learned anything. He’s chilling on a yacht while his loyal employees are without their pensions!

  • @tylerduke5859
    @tylerduke5859 Год назад +152

    "Now he lives in Monaco as a recluse and spends a lot of time on his yacht"
    Sure showed those billionaires not to steal! Should be in a cell

    • @inspectorpouzo
      @inspectorpouzo Год назад +22

      Yeah I feel for him, he must be sobbing on his yacht nonstop. I hope he does a maxwell soon...

    • @monacophotographyevents2384
      @monacophotographyevents2384 Год назад +3

      He's certainly not reclusive..He's often out and about in Monaco, eating in restaurants etc.

    • @MarjorieWong-ym3ft
      @MarjorieWong-ym3ft Год назад

      He needs a washout eating all that rich foods

    • @jamesenglish102
      @jamesenglish102 Год назад

      That will teach him😂

  • @Bergen98
    @Bergen98 Год назад +20

    When people ask "Why is the free press the fourth Estate?" - journalists like Oliver Shah are the answer. To expose the greedy and punish the corrupted

  • @melissastreeter22
    @melissastreeter22 11 месяцев назад +2

    Engaging, articulate, well-spoken reporter. Appreciate correct pronunciation of "consortium."

  • @MrDangadave
    @MrDangadave Год назад +26

    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.

    • @petrabrown4232
      @petrabrown4232 8 месяцев назад +2

      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.

    • @Inventio13
      @Inventio13 2 месяца назад

      It doesn’t matter if it is capitalism, democracy, socialism or communism. The ruling class are above the Law, and beyond reproach.

  • @yveeriksson7437
    @yveeriksson7437 Год назад +27

    Seems to be the same problem in UK as in my country, investigative journalists do the job the police is supposed to do.

  • @johnmartin7919
    @johnmartin7919 Год назад +42

    You've only got to look at his face - says it all. Sickening to see politicians and celebs toadying up to him .

    • @Unlucky-Dube
      @Unlucky-Dube Год назад +3

      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.

    • @leoleo6692
      @leoleo6692 Год назад

      @@Unlucky-Dube at this point do you even need to?

    • @kathejohnson4241
      @kathejohnson4241 Год назад +1

      They're all in the same club🤢🤢🤢🤮

  • @Dontbeasheep33
    @Dontbeasheep33 4 месяца назад +16

    The fact he is a “sir” says all you need to know. The sheep are so blind…

  • @MC-mv2wr
    @MC-mv2wr Год назад +13

    Excellent work. This is journalism from Oliver Shah at its very best. Just only 1 thing is missing & that is the Sir/Knighthood should be transferred from Philip Green to make it Sir Oliver Shah.

  • @sayitasitis1039
    @sayitasitis1039 Год назад +27

    Great investigative reporter. Keep up the good work. You are a rare gem. Ethics and professionalism. Well done 👏👏👏

  • @Iskander448
    @Iskander448 Год назад +68

    It makes a lot of sense why his daughter took up with that unrepentant ex convict. She probably saw some similarities with her father.

    • @MarjorieWong-ym3ft
      @MarjorieWong-ym3ft Год назад

      That convict is a butterfly in comparison.This man is highly top notch fraudster.They rob unarmed these kind if folks.A penitentiary will never have in one of its cells

    • @leoleo6692
      @leoleo6692 Год назад

      Oh boy I forgot that was his daughter, don't feel so bad anymore.

  • @belamoure
    @belamoure 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great work thank you for your hard work.

  • @David-og7di
    @David-og7di Год назад +25

    Well done this journalist. Thankyou for a massive effort.

  • @Theodisc
    @Theodisc Год назад +104

    ... and meanwhile Green remains living large the Life on the Med whilst some of his former employees are scraping by.

    • @jewsaregenocidalhores
      @jewsaregenocidalhores Год назад

      Like all oligarchs hiding out in criminal London. Ahh london-need to embezzle insane amounts of money? Need to launder insane amounts of money? Want to avoid all types of taxes? Or you simply want to hide from repercussions with impunity? come to London, land of criminality 🥳

  • @tariq_sharif
    @tariq_sharif Год назад +34

    Why work hard when you can give your wife a £1B dividend (financed by debt) and then bankrupt your company (including its pension fund)...there are hundreds of asset stripper venture capitlisates (or as some call it "leeches on the face of humanity") that do the same...
    Great journalism... please do more..

  • @tomcochrane56
    @tomcochrane56 Год назад +7

    Great bit of journalism. I wish the rest of the hack's in the UK learn from you!

  • @celondelon351
    @celondelon351 Год назад +12

    He should be stripped of his knighthood, but then again the whole honours system should be abolished.

  • @Bod1st
    @Bod1st Год назад +7

    Nice work, proper investigative journalism.

  • @TravelAlwaysOfficial
    @TravelAlwaysOfficial 9 месяцев назад +1

    Sir Phillip Green is very personable and seems down to earth, despite his yacht, etc. Charming!

    • @hanzo7616
      @hanzo7616 4 месяца назад

      Boomer spotted

  • @a.nhonig3311
    @a.nhonig3311 Год назад +49

    So he basically scammed his workers out of their retirement s. Will he ever suffer any consequences? Heartbreaking💔

    • @Roberto-mh1tb
      @Roberto-mh1tb Год назад +7

      Are you kidding? Welcome to Britain!

    • @jewsaregenocidalhores
      @jewsaregenocidalhores Год назад +1

      @@Roberto-mh1tb criminal land

    • @jewsaregenocidalhores
      @jewsaregenocidalhores Год назад

      @@Roberto-mh1tb all the laws are set up to make sure criminals(gov&co.) get away with it. Criminal-land, the UKKK 🇬🇧 that’s why all the oligarchs and n0nces run here

    • @angeladallimore8079
      @angeladallimore8079 Год назад +2

      We ALL have to pay the consequences back one day when we go back to the happy hunting ground ,One may get away with things on the earth plane ,However it's a different matter upstairs ,Oh and then theirs Karma ,!

  • @tonychorley4936
    @tonychorley4936 Год назад +17

    Brilliant piece of journalism, thank you.

  • @lukebradburn2544
    @lukebradburn2544 Год назад +12

    "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.

    • @cosy1914
      @cosy1914 4 месяца назад +2

      Yes but he hasn't long to live and i cant see him being resurrected by God.

  • @DG-ss2zd
    @DG-ss2zd 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great coverage thanks

  • @davidbailey6563
    @davidbailey6563 Год назад +11

    I doubt if Green cares. He had a good time,hit a little bump in the road and is now living the good life again. He has no shame so pieces like this don't bother him.

  • @joejo6273
    @joejo6273 Год назад +7

    Great work by Oliver......fascinating insight into little Phil.......the man who was !

  • @hateclub
    @hateclub Год назад +13

    Doesn't sound like much of a fall to me, dude probably still has millions. Fair play though, it seems he was a perfectly adept businessman for the first few decades of his career. I guess the ruined reputation is exactly what he deserved, and he only has himself to blame for how he handled the demise of his retail empire.

  • @urukagina6195
    @urukagina6195 7 месяцев назад +1

    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.