Posted on 06/10/2010 10:03:42 AM PDT by blam
The UK Is Now Freaking Out About The U.S. Reaction To BP
Gregory White
Jun. 10, 2010, 10:29 AM
The UK is freaking out right now about the U.S. reaction to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Major Conservative political leader and Mayor of London Boris Johnson has called President Barack Obama's language "anti-British" after the President called BP 'British Petroleum' rather than its modern name.
Conservative Lord Tebbit's quote is just too vitriolic to paraphrase.
From The Daily Mail:
"The whole might of American wealth and technology is displayed as utterly unable to deal with the disastrous spill - so what more natural than a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan political Presidential petulance against a multinational company," said Lord Tebbit.
Much of the furor over the fallout from the BP spill in the UK stems from the potential damage to the company's dividends, which are linked to many pensions in the country.
Now UK Prime Minister David Cameron is going to speak personally to U.S. President Barack Obama over the issue, in an effort to calm the tensions between the two countries.
But the UK's Spectator blog doesn't think Cameron has a chance of stopping Obama on his warpath, as the U.S. president has no choice but to attack with his poll numbers sagging.
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“but what is to be gained by bankrupting BP” Only one thing, but it’s very important. NO other Oil company will ever bypass it’s own security measures and Risk a catastrophic oil spill if they know they could be put out of business over it. Furthermore, no company will every pay “Lip SERVICE” to a contingence plan. Companies will take the risk of a spill far more seriously if BP goes Belly up than if BP loses a billion dollars. This was not an accident, it was criminal negligence. They KNEW the critical tests failed, they knew their last inline safety device had failed because pieces of it where on the deck! Despite all that, they continued, pumped the heavy fluid out of the pipe, so they could start pumping oil a few days sooner….
Get your terms right, mate. Anglophilia is having an affection for England or things English. Anglophobia is having a hatred or irrational fear of things English (i.e. you).
What is your problem? On so many threads about the UK, you appear trying to convince everyone that the UK is no friend of the USA. Simply listing things socialists have done in the UK as a reason to hate us doesn’t explain it. I could list things happening in the US that I (and you) don’t like (electing Obama, considering building an Islamic centre near ground zero etc) and use them to hate the USA. I don’t, because I know it just means you’re in the same fight we’re in: struggling against the left.
If you think the US should drop the UK as an ally, I’d be interested to know who you think are your country’s real allies.
that talk dishonors every British soldier who has lost lives and limbs in the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -—nand their families
let’s not get into who drew up the colonial maps that led to the nationalist instabilities that created a vacuum for extremist islamism and al Qaeda
Let’s look at who stood up with George Bush 41 when April Glaspie’s blunder led Saddam to invade Kuwait, and who stood up with the USA when Bush43 decided the only way to stop future 9-11’s is to accelerate by force, the process of modernizing the political systems of the muslim world, starting at the center, Iraq
I will go to war with the Brits at my back, any day
They’ll really start freaking out when we beat them on Saturday.
Is it finished yet? Are there anymore allies he hasn’t pissed off and turned against us?
We need someway to ask the world to only attack the blue states.
Kuwait, that british creation carved off from the British creation of Iraq? Which had a gulf war just like desert storm in the 50s?
Wake up and smell the hot tea. While of course a British soldier is trustworthy, their government is not.
And thats mighty big of England to feel like they should be involved in a war involving Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq,,, (notice a pattern?)
I stand by it, it’s hard to name a government more hostile to Americas values and Geopolitical goals than England.
I said- let’s not go back 100 years or more and begin to cast blame on those who drew up the colonial boundaries
The fact is, the US and Brits together showed Saddam that boundary controversies in this day and age are not to be settled by invasion.
Your statement about disparity between American and British geopoitical goals and national values is twaddle, when it comes to the core values. We are them and they are us.
And that’s why the likes of obama hates us both.
(and Rahmbo too, since the brit army apparently hung or shot his nutty zionist uncle during some guerrilla escapade in early Palestine)
Kuwait, that british creation carved off from the British creation of Iraq? Which had a gulf war just like desert storm in the 50s?
Wake up and smell the hot tea. While *of course* a British soldier is trustworthy, and a good guy to be with in a foxhole, their government is certainly not. I don’t think i’ve ever been critical of British soldiers, except possibly a specific individual for cause,,etc.
And of course England should be there to clean up messes involving Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq,,,
But I do stand by it, it’s hard to name a government more cynical in it’s take on America’s values and Geopolitical goals than England. As a government, they generally do not slavishly love us, the way we are expected to admire them.
They changed their name from British Petroleum to BP. Several years ago, perhaps? In issues between countries, the littlest details are significant.
And as usual, our Pres_ent screws it up.
They changed the name legally. I *think* for awhile it was called Beyond Petroleum, at least in a few ads.
“We are them, and they are us.”
You mean we have a surveillance state, designed to completely oppress dissenting thought and speech? We should need a license to possess a TV set? We need to start having Sharia Courts? We should arrest guys like Pinochet and threaten to arrest Israeli diplomats? We need to surrender all guns, and the right to self-defense? And we should adopt the extremist “twaddle” of british Climate change initiative? And last,, we really should attempt to prosecute British soldiers for nearly unavoidable freindly fire incidents,, as they tried to do with our USAF flyers??
England even currently has 90 hereditary members of the house of lords! They still allow a person to inherit political power?!! And “we are them, and they are us”? Sorry, I just dont see it.
No, while as individuals, i might easily like a person from England, when evaluating governments, they are most assuredly not us.
Even Ike, though he had very close working relations with them, knew they were not to be slavishly followed. They were bitter at him for not supporting their moves in his administration in the Suez. They expect us to believe that we should see British world views as our own, and back them up with blood and treasure.
You mean Obama and the Democrat’s reaction to BP.
My reaction to BP is “Stuff happens. You fix the darn thing and try to contain the stuff at sea. We’ll work on the beaches and send you a bill for your part of the clean-up expenses. Thats why you have insurance, right?”
bingo... 
I’m Irish and French so hating the British is in my blood. It’s nice to see the rest of America come around.
And BP needs to pay. I bought this house because I wanted to be able to walk outside in my pajamas and start up my boat. I worked hard so that I could retire early and live that dream.
If oil destroys the bay and makes it unfishable there’s no real point in me living here.
Ya forgot the ipod full of Obama speeches that he gave to Queen Elizabeth.
You know,,, i thought about what you said (about me being anti-british on threads. And now that i stop and think about it honestly, my ex-mother in law *was* British, so maybe i have a hangup about it still!
I remember after her, when i watch that movie “Battle of Britain”, im always screaming at the Luftwaffe on TV,,, “NO!! NOT LONDON!! Keep attacking the airfields!!”
Ok,, so under the liberating influence of alcohol, ill admit, it’s at least remotely *possible* that MAYBE im the problem. And maybe i do have some unresolved PTSD from my ex-Mother in law, and great great grandpa was irish too,,,(so there,,,i hope you guys enjoy this one time admission of culpabilty and meaness!) Dammit,,
Right, when Obozo rendered a subservient bow to Saudi Arabia, Japan, and others while rendering Her Majesty a cool - very cool - handshake.
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