A Steady Hand on Your Wallet

In hopes of sparking a meteorological dispensation for the sunlit uplands Fishy Rishi, who in happier days helped to engineer the 2008 crash, is plotting to remove the restraints that were placed upon the gambling élite when the extent of their achievement became known. On a smaller scale but in the same plucky entrepreneurial spirit, a Conservative-controlled local authority has incurred massive debts by betting on concerns which rapidly went bust. They were warned of the likely consequences, but the warnings were fatally flawed by coming from mere experts; and in any case the consequences will not be paid by the profligate councillors, but by the taxpayers who have the good fortune to be represented by them. Everyone knows that the most convenient solution to problem gambling is to throw money at the perpetrator; and the party of bankers and landlords is particularly well aware that the convenience is significantly enhanced when the money does not happen to be one's own.