Reply With QuoteDunno, he's kept them in the Premier League for a good while, where others have failed. Perhaps, like Mel, he is a brilliant businessman that we shouldn't criticise?
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Evidently top of HMRC hit list of furlough abusers. Is he fit and proper to run a football club, even a serial failure / under achiever such as Newcastle
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Dunno, he's kept them in the Premier League for a good while, where others have failed. Perhaps, like Mel, he is a brilliant businessman that we shouldn't criticise?
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He only furlough his staff because he was made to close his shops. He wanted to keep them open claiming they were essential As for HMRC nothing will happen . I see Philip Green is second on the list so definitely nothing will happen Long grassed like Jenrick will beOriginally Posted by Geoff Parkstone
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Mista: the suggestion is that, having furloughed them, he then made them work for his businesses, allegedly, yet still claimed the grant. I think HMRC are going to go after a few big names - who knows whether they will succeed - to get back money and "name and shame": which I wholeheartedly endorse
If true, effectively a curiously akin to modern slavery act scenario where you work for me but I don't pay you.
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If you’re correct I hope he gets what should be coming to him.
Can’t help but take mista’s comment on board though...as the recent cases of Green, Jenrick, Cummings and BJ himself would suggest.
Some just seem to be above the law...it has to change.
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Philip Green seems to also be on HMRC radar and the others haven't been involved in furloughs...........I think!!
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Agreed...I was just going down the ‘one rule for some’ line.
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Geoff the way I have read it staff are saying they were ask to work but none actually did . On a personal point I've no time for Ashley but what he is a slippery slimey individual who repeatedly gets away with things no other businessman could do . T hats why I expect nothing to come of this
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On the subject of ‘one rule for some’...how come Peter Ridsdale - who I think was banned from company directorship until a couple of months ago - was allowed into the stand at Deepdale for PNE v Cardiff today.
Very dubious football history. Is he really a crucial presence?
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