The chairman thinks he has found an admirable quality in the old watchdog but it's all too good to be true
"You know, I may be guilty of a misjudgement," said the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBlue Planet as we met up the other day for a pint or two of Sinopia at The Reddish-Brown Pigment Apparently And Not Another Meaningless Management Consultant Concoction. "I'm beginning to think those chaps at the FSA aren't quite as bad as I might have suggested in the past. If his first statement was surprising, his second was closer to shocking. "That's quite a change of heart," I said eventually, after a long silence punctuated only by the sound of my downing my pint in tw...
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