A QUESTION OF MANAGING ONES 'IMAGE'
Now the poor dears are
worried because they feel their ‘image’ could be damaged by being
required to appear before a select committee. Lord Bell, who runs some sort of consultancy advising these corporations, goes so far as to whine:
“There is nothing to be
gained from these companies being candid or transparent any longer. It’s about
‘Let’s get out of here without making a mistake’. They are much more frightened
of these committees than they used to be.”
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In truth these
corporations go out of their way to make their business operations, employment
practices and tax arrangements as opaque as possible. What pisses them off
about parliamentary committees is that they are compelled to attend and give an
account of themselves, in the course of which they face the risk that the
curtain may be lifted on the reality behind the candy coated façade they seek
to project.
Already an embryonic
propaganda campaign is taking shape to discredit the committee system,
particularly the most effective chair, Margaret Hodge. Paid flunkeys like Macer
Hall, a Daily Express hack, are now composing lyrics to tunes whistled by the
likes of Starbucks, Amazon and Google.[1]
Keep your eye out for more of this.
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