Green’s fit for nothing

YOU don’t need to be one of the sacked 11,000 BHS workers or a retired employee worried about your pension to question whether former owner Philip Green is fit and proper to be a company director.

Millions of other grafters would feel the same after he controversially gave the High Street chain to a former bankrupt for a token £1, the year before it collapsed.

Shameless tycoon Green escaping a boardroom ban will strike many as grotesquely unfair. The law clearly favours a billionaire living in obscene luxury – as staff who helped build his fortune scratch around for new jobs.

Green’s cheque for £363million to fill part of a £571million pension black hole whiffed of guilt to many. And it is stomach-churning he appeared more worried about his devalued knighthood than the welfare of workers.

The law must be strengthened so it’s on the side of grafters.

We want to wipe that smirk from the lips of the unacceptable face of capitalism.