And isn't this:

the proposed EU regulations would "limit the scope and potential return of our investment portfolio and hence reduce our charitable spend."

Just a version of the plutocrats' special pleading, to wit: financial innovation is "Good for Society"?

Where is Jesus when you need him to drive the moneychangers out of the Church of England?

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma