No it doesn't, they changed the name to BP ages ago. (Beyond Petrolium is the tagline they use)
Obama is anti-british
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No it doesn't, they changed the name to BP ages ago. (Beyond Petrolium is the tagline they use)
There's a good article on the BBC website by Mark Easton which wholly echoes my thoughts - namely that the 'anti-British' feeling is something entirely concocted by the UK media and that over here, no-one is thinking 'anti-British' at all - any negative feeling is purely against BP as a company and there is far more discussion and consideration on the short and long-term implications for off-shore drilling in the US rather than bothering about 'hating on the British'.
Indeed, it purely a PR campaign to deflect attention from the fact that it was Obama that opened up the US coast to drilling and one of the US governemental departments were responsible for signing off the removal of some safeguards from the drilling program for the well.
I don't see anything anti-british in there. Where are the "anti-british" comments?
It's not like there isn't enough anti american sentiment any time they shoot up one of our jeeps/tanks/soldiers.
If an american oil company had raped the backside out of our coastline you can be sure our PM would be using the same tactics to mirror the outrage that the british public would have towards america/american company.
If an american oil company had raped the backside out of our coastline you can be sure our PM would be using the same tactics to mirror the outrage that the british public would have towards america/american company.
Or US government owners Halliburton, the force behind the Iraq war.
The fact is that this environmental disaster was made in America. It was a US built rig, ran by a multi-national company with 23,000 US employees and is 40% owned by American shareholders, staffed by American employees, and compliant with US regulations. For them to try and palm the blame off on us on the basis that there's a British CEO is churlish to the extreme.
Let's ignore that US companies like Exxon are operating in the Niger delta where more oil is leaking out than anywhere else in the world, including the Gulf of Mexico. Lets ignore that it was a US company that owned the Piper Alpha rig, which caused the death of 167 workers in the North Sea. Lets ignore that it was a US company that ran the Bhopal chemical plant.
There isn't anything anti-British there - as Rich_L put it, it's all in peoples' heads. People have an irrational problem with Obama on both sides of the pond and it's quite disconcerting.
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/n...arack-obama’s-top-10-insults-against-britain/
for a kick off
- look whther you buy into it or not the foundation for this POV is there and a 10 second google will throw it in your face.
for a kick off
- look whther you buy into it or not the foundation for this POV is there and a 10 second google will throw it in your face.
Send them some tea.
It isn't really about being anti British but deflecting blame from the administration and the US companies involved. It just happens to be that BP is (mostly) British. Of course the CEO of BP really, really needs to hire a decent PR person and stop saying stupid things.
The point is though, it isn't a British company, any more, it's multinational.
Refer to this link at the bottom:
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/n...britain-in-the-face-again-over-the-falklands/
to be honest there is lots of tangible evidence for this pov.
to be honest there is lots of tangible evidence for this pov.
If it was a Chinese matter, he would have been executed for being the head of a group that led to the deaths of 11 workers and massive lasting environmental damage. The man has no idea how easy he has it. He will retire filthy rich and his stupid comments really show just how out of touch and crass he really is.
That 'journalist' (I use that term very loosely) is hilarious, he seems to think that people actually care about what he writes about and are as 'outraged' by petty little disputes as he is.
I AM OUTRAGED AT THIS UGLY MENACING THREAT - JOHN MCDONNELL PREACHER OF HATE
Nah, if it was a Chinese matter he would have beene executed for making China look bad, the deaths and the environmental damage would be immaterial.
The man is indeed a grade A idiot. However, he isn't really responsible for this incident, the US company that owns the platform (and several others without the same safety features) are. However that wouldn't be a decent political target so BP as a "foriegn" company works better.