As far as I can tell, once the question about price is asked, they will make a remark about how awful the Republicans or Democrats are (depending on their leanings).
Those rules were implemented in the crashes before 2008. The banks have the resources to get around them; they actually advise the government how to get their debt off-BS. You realise that's a conflict of interest, right?
The whole idea behind the PFI is that the debt is not on the government BS.
2008 banking crisis showed that they're all banking stooges. Banks go bust for their poor management. Public bales them out. Traders get enormous bonuses, although not on the level they screwed up. Some twenty years later, the last shares were sold to the market by the government on 30 May 2025.
Actually you could argue the 1991 ERM fiasco showed that they're all banking Stooges.
Nothing to see here.
Microsoft being Microsoft.