Private Eye's number crunching last edition
Clean up worker - £7.50 an hour
Chairman of BP - £1,500 an hour
BP profits in 1st Qtr - £1,500,000 an hour
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 14:11, 1 reply)

Indeed.
Pity it's not BP's fault the US have such fucking pathetics regs on deepwater drilling then. Or that it wasn't BP's rig.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 14:27, closed)

Very true
And the Federal agency responsible for reviewing the disaster planning accepted a plan from BP, in June 09, that included measures to protect "sea lions, seals, sea otters and walruses". In the Gulf of Mexico.

Regulation at it's finest.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 14:33, closed)

Goerge Bush's regulatory agencies at their best
The stories about the "reglators" seemingly being bought off by food, parties,and sex supplied by BP are pretty horrific. Of course Obama should have fired everyone immediately and replaced them with real regulators but that didn't happen.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:47, closed)

I'm pretty sure, like all these things, they are also just that. Stories.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 17:56, closed)