Originally Posted by jfman

While I'm sure it was a populist measure - and I deed a deflection from structural failings - it's a legitimate question of when skill or ability ends and chance begins.

If they aren't willing to pay a banker with their own money, but are quite content to pay many multiples the amount they settled on after successful gambling with yours it certainly calls into question the basics of hard work the Conservatives tell us about just "getting a better job".

It may well be routine and expected but that merely underlines how toxic the industry is.