"O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?"

We've been here before, several times.  But nothing ever seems to change.  The Guardian reports:

Apart from the junior director who tried to speak against the delusion in Carillion’s boardroom, nobody emerges with credit from the two select committees’ post-mortem on the contracting firm. The other directors, led by chairman Philip Green, chief executive Richard Howson and finance director Richard Adam, were directly responsible for the failure because they were either “negligently ignorant of the rotten culture” or complicit in it. But the entire system of checks and balances failed.

The auditors, KPMG, were useless, as was the audit industry’s passive regulator. The government, in the form of the Crown Representative, was asleep. The Pensions Regulator was feeble. City advisers to Carillion were paid to be supine. Big shareholders were not inquisitive. None of those judgments will surprise those who followed the evidence sessions, but the MPs’ report will count for little unless it forces action from government.

Aye weel.  I'll not be holding my breath in anticipation of any substantial action from this government.


[Disclosure:  I was a shareholder in Carillion when it went bust and lost what to me was a considerable sum of money.  Serves me right for gambling against a rigged deck, I hear you say?]