Is Sir Philip Green to blame for BHS failure?

SIR Philip Green’s rebuke that those who have criticised him are ‘envious and jealous’ shows how far removed he is from reality. If he lived in the real world, he would understand why people are rattled over how he has helped put thousands of employees out to grass, with their pension pots under threat. It may be legal, but it is immoral. They say attack is the best form of defence, but how ironic that he called the House of Commons committee ‘bullies’ and ‘rude’. If anyone was a bully, it was him. The arrogant contempt he had for the MPs was the same he displayed in his cavalier approach to BHS. His pledge to repay £275 million to BHS could be seen as an admission of guilt and MPs should hold him to it.

DAVE DEGEN, Watford, Herts. BASHING Philip Green is a favourite pastime. But we should be asking which chain of shops is next. We have lost C&A, Littlewoods, Rosebys and Austin Reed. Meanwhile, Primark, TK Maxx and Matalan thrive. Why? Because the failed chains were unable to adjust to rapid changes in fashion and buying habits. The end of BHS was inevitable because the people who ran it were not on the ball.

CHRIS STANSFIELD, Mansfield, Notts. SIR Philip Green could easily put an end to the financial fiasco at BHS. He should come clean, say the buck stops here, pay up and shut up. With all his dosh squirrelled away, a repayment of a few million to the pension fund of his former employees will not change his lifestyle, but will certainly change theirs. He would then get brownie points, retain his knighthood and be able to collect his new toy, the £100 million super-yacht Lionheart, with a clearer conscience.

ANGELA HUMPHREY, London NW3. SO SIR Philip Green is sorry 11,000 BHS workers have lost their jobs. But I doubt he’ll be inviting any of them for a holiday on his yacht any time soon.