{"id":719,"date":"2012-07-05T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T07:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-07-10T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T11:11:33","slug":"barclays-before-a-british-parliamentary-select-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/2012\/07\/05\/barclays-before-a-british-parliamentary-select-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"BARCLAYS BEFORE A BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translated from the French<\/a> by Tim Gupwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I watched the hearing of Bob Diamond live, who had resigned the day before from his post as Chief Executive of the British bank Barclays.<\/p>\n

Diamond was extremely polite but his tactics in response to the questions posed him were very skilful: the more brutally a British parliamentarian interrogated him, the more he highlighted in his answer the complicity that had previously bound them together, frequently resorting to the use of his interrogators\u2019 first names in the answers he gave (playing on the fact that they would\u00a0 be forced to pass this familiarity off as being some sort of \u2018Americanism\u2019, forgivable in the name of good international relations), or saying for example, \u201cJohn, that\u2019s a subject which, as you know, we have already discussed in the past, you and me, on many occasions\u2026\u201d, etc.<\/p>\n

Obviously Diamond\u2019s intention is to save his reputation and his past bonuses (for which he maintains that it is Barclays which is responsible rather than him). But for you and me, who don\u2019t know him or the others personally, the impression given out was that all these respectable people, the\u00a0 accusers just as much as the accused, are in reality best of friends and are essentially indulging in a spot of theatre for PR reasons; a staged hostility, a pure fa\u00e7ade of antagonism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Translated from the French<\/a> by Tim Gupwell<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I watched the hearing of Bob Diamond live, who had resigned the day before from his post as Chief Executive of the British bank Barclays.<\/p>\n

Diamond was extremely polite but his tactics in response to the questions posed him were very skilful: the more brutally a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[158,159],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-barclays","tag-bob-diamond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}