Snouts in the Trough

While BP is forced to throw tens of billions of shareholders’ money into the pockets of US lawyers, BP’s bosses probably aren’t too worried about their own wealth. Last year Tony Hayward took home £4m in salary and bonuses, up 40% from the previous year as a reward for his cost (and corner?) cutting. BP’s Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and other execs also got large salary increases.

While shareholder money evaporates faster than the oil in the Gulf of Mexico, BP bosses seem to have been filling up their own bank accounts. No surprise there then.

Crapello – the latest in a long line of overpaid and undertalented England managers – has claimed that Franz Beckenbauer has criticised the England team because the German team is afraid of England. I didn’t know the Italians were known for their sense of humour, but that surely must be a joke.

The Germans could thrash our useless, overcoiffed, underperforming, multimillionaire footballing prima donnas without breaking into a sweat. England are hopeless, send them home and spare us the humiliation of seeing them lose.

US company Union Carbide killed thousands of people in Bhopal (India) and polluted a huge area. But they paid just a few hundred million dollars in compensation. BP killed 11 people and also caused widespread pollution yet Obama wants billions. Perhaps Mr. Obama thinks that thousands of Indian lives are worth much less than a few Florida beaches.

Are you a racist, Mr. Obama?

Hopefully England’s excuse for a football team was watching Germany demolish Australia last night, in the way England should have demolished the USA.

Isn’t having Crapello’s bunch of overpaid, undertalented, self-indulgent prima donnas in South Africa just a waste of money? They can’t be bothered to play properly - as they’re all so rich anyway they’re not hungry to win. Why not just send them home now and save a lot of money? Leave the World Cup to teams that actually try to win.

It seems like the (I believe) politically compliant Sir Jock Stirrup will be leaving his post after his (I believe) incompetent mismanagement of the Afghanistan campaign.

I wonder if he feels like apologising to the families of soldiers who have died (I believe) unnecessarily, or will his massive pension (paid for by those families and the rest of us) manage to assuage any feelings of guilt over the buckets of blood on his hands?

OK it hasn’t happened yet. But it will. So we might as well get ready for the inevitable. The England team are not particularly good. But more importantly, they’re not hungry to win. They’re so overpaid and spolit that they’d rather throw childish tantrums on the pitch than play proper football.

It might be Rooney, it might be someone else – but we can be sure that in a crucial game one of the players will get sent off after throwing a wobbly and England will go crashing out of the competition, as usual. Get used to it.

US President Obama has enjoyed supporting Argentina against Britain in the Falklands dispute and is now trying to get a few votes by lambasting the useless BP while ignoring the role of US companies in the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Come on Cameron. Pull our troops out of Afghanistan immediately and let Mr. Obama find out what reliable allies the French, Germans and Italians are. Then he’ll come crawling begging for British help. Why waste British lives for the treacherous Obama? Bollocks to him!

Our supposedly ‘leading’ economists predict that the euro cannot survive. This is complete rubbish as usual from ‘economists’. I suggest they take a trip to visit the EU empire in Brussels. Then they will see that the eurocrats and europoliticians will never let anything stand in the way of their dream of a European superstate (the EUSSR).

So the Germans, Dutch and Swedes will be forced to bail out the Club Med countries and the euro-elite will use the crisis to increase their power by taking control of member countries’ budgets. The Euro and the EUSSR are unfortunately here to stay.

In his desperate attempts to become Labour’s new leader, Ed Balls, the man who helped Brown bankrupt Britain, claims he warned Brown about the effects of Labour’s deliberately uncontrolled immigration policy. Balls, balls, balls, balls. The Milibands and Balls of this world will say anything they can think of to try to distance themselves from the policies they supported when it suited their political careers.

Garbage, scum and liars – are there any other words which can describe the self-serving pretenders to Gordon ‘liar’ Brown’s tarnished crown?

Apparently the disgraced Lord Browne, formerly of BP (Buggered Petroleum), is going to ‘help’ the government cut public spending. We can all see what Lord Browne’s cost-cutting (and corner-cutting?) did for BP. No doubt the Lord will have the same disastrous effect on our public services.

Anyway, given that  simply putting all public-sector managerial and administrative staff on a 4-day week, all quangos on a 3-day week and instituting a maximum public-sector pension of say £20,000 a year will demolish the deficit, why is the government wasting time and money on yet another so-called expert?