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petercj
Pointing out lies isn't nit picking though.
I don't agree with bankers taking huge bonuses but the misrepresentation of facts is what they did and the journo is doing the same thing.
The statement made is that he will leave with a package worth over 10,0000.000 - I don't think you can accuse someone of telling lies because they put together an estimate, which is all it can be without detailed information from the horse's mouth when the leaving day comes.
He is free to refute such claims, but I doubt very much that he will.
The broad facts are plain enough, and the public are increasingly growing intolerant of bonanza style profiteering by the energy companies, and this kind of golden handshake (call it what you like).
The name of the game has been to make as much money as possible, and reduce payment of tax as much as possible, which may be legal, but such profiteering is now increasingly being questioned. All sense of morality has been abdicated to the market place, and those who play the game will justify their actions by the profits they make and their ability to bend the rules to their advantage without actually breaking them - although an increase in transparency might show that the rules need changing away from being so flexible.
Bear in mind that we are not talking about profit made from a decent days work. This variant of 'profit' is made off the backs of working people by those who sit on their backsides all day playing monopoly.