To even utter that creature’s name in the public sphere without the obligatory shudder and splutter causes me a great deal of physical discomfort - already have I committed blasphemous error by referencing it in the same manner in my previous entries without the necessary stock reaction.
But enough of my vitriolic vernacular, back to the matter at hand and Sir Green. He really is a stupendous and alarmingly talented man - well, you’d have to be to be the 9th richest man in Britain! A man like that nears demigod status, and I for one feel privileged just to shuffle along in this same green and pleasant land as him- my countrymen would do well to emulate this attitude. I can think of no better person to assist this wrongly maligned Government in battling that unspeakable terror. For the Tories, this is getting back to basics, as Our Saviour used to draft in private sector entrepreneurs such as Lord Rayner to seek out and destroy the myriad inefficiencies in the civil service, under the guise of the ‘Financial Management Initiative’. Of course, Mr. Cameron and his superlative colleagues are merely carrying out the Lord’s (or should that be Lady’s) work to its natural conclusion, indeed, going one better than her in drafting a businessman to try and solve the entire government budgetary DEFICIT at large!
Sir Phillip Green, as with most men who have dared to make a living for themselves in this country, has come in for criticism previously when it was discovered that his business group Arcadia were accused of using slave labour a flexible and dedicated workforce in Vietnam to produce it’s goods
Green surely can’t be blamed for this, anyone whose anyone is doing it! Why, you can’t hope to be a good businessman if you can’t cut a few corners! Green’s chattering critics are just the type of people to slate his $1 billion pay cheque - green eyed monsters who screech ‘class war!’ at the slightest provocation. Investment is a coalface, and 1 billion is small change in order to appease a demigod. It’s only natural that the Conservative Party found Sir Philip Green so attractive - both well-bred institutions of the best background, both capable of leading this country out of the dark ages. This union can be nothing short of beneficial to all of us, and it would be downright seditious to state otherwise. I rubbish those critics who say that Sir Green has no experience of the public sector or macroeconomics at large - with his colossal vision it is plain to see he will bring the leanness and dynamics of the private sector to the bloated and nannied public sector! It’s elementary logic!
Green is excited to be taking up this role, as is the unfortunately named Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister. Maude said there was,
‘..a pressing need to push forward with both the efficiency and transparency agendas,’
These are certainly agendas and agendas of such importance that they must be be pushed with the utmost force - otherwise, our efficiency and transparency development will be well and truly arrested! I don’t know about you, but a country that allows its efficiency and transparency work to fall by the wayside is a country I don’t wish to belong to!
Oh, I hear them crying once more, the enemy within. They simply won’t stop until they’ve ruined this man’s career, till this government is in tatters and until this land is in irreversible decline and ultimately an anarchic state - all because their ‘livelihoods’ are at stake. Nonsense! If they had only worked harder and gotten to better positions in society they wouldn’t be in this mess! Their present predicament owes to their laziness, and they have no right to cast such a black mark against the poor Sir Philip Green. Here’s what the mob are bawling about now,
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Trade union leaders today challenged the credibility of Sir Philip Green's appointment to head a Whitehall spending review as questions persisted about the high street retail boss's tax arrangements.
The government has appointed Green – the billionaire owner of the clothing retailer Arcadia, which includes Topshop and Dorothy Perkins – to identify inefficiencies and savings in Whitehall departments.
But his suitability for the role has been questioned. Green spends part of his time in Monaco, a tax haven, and in 2005 his company paid a £1.2bn dividend to his wife, Tina. She did not have to pay tax on it because she is a Monaco resident.’
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‘David Crow, political editor of City AM, said he received a tirade of abuse from Green when he asked him about his tax arrangements at the end of a telephone interview about the billionaire's new role.
Crow told the Guardian: "I asked him whether his tax affairs came up with anyone in government when they made the appointment. I had to ask him three times because he kept asking me to repeat the question."
Green told him he was the only person to have asked him about his tax status, adding: "What difference does it make if I live on the moon – the real question is whether I'm qualified to do the job."
Crow later phoned Arcadia to try to establish the facts about Green's tax status and was asked to put his questions in an email, which contained his mobile phone number.
The company appears to have forwarded the message to Green, who phoned Crow. "I got another tirade and then he asked to talk to my editor," said Crow.
He passed the phone to his deputy editor, David Hellier, who happened to be standing next to him. "And that's when he called me a fucking tosser," Crow said.’
Yea, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
