"Why is money meant for future investment going to shareholders instead?" We value our shareholders more than the people paying for our over priced energy.
Same story with all the privatised state assets. Bring them all back. If you need it to stay alive, it shouldn't be in the hands of private business & shareholders. From what I've seen since the 80s, such industries have a real potential to become parasitic. A slide from people > customers > hosts.
"Well you see, we have lots of arcane fancy words to dance around the facts at hand & ensure that we the savvy all end up filthy stinking rich, you see; so in fact, learn to stfu"
Well by whose authority was the English language allowed to become such a tangled mess so that nobody at all has the faintest idea what the money-grabbing thieves actually mean regardless of what they say to defend outright robbery?
Same questions asked and same answers given in similar committees all over the world. Old money men fleecing the public and layering the regulators to be their firewall
If he did that less than half the questions that need to be asked would be responded to and none of them would be answered. Real life has time limits and deadlines.