Fantom Anti British Sentiment

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37602159/ns/business-world_business/

'Anti-British rhetoric'?The politics of the spill crossed the Atlantic, with London Mayor Boris Johnson expressing concern Thursday about the "anti-British rhetoric that seems to be permeating from America."

Johnson said BP was paying a "very, very heavy price" for an accident.

"I would like to see a bit of cool heads rather than endlessly buck-passing and name-calling," Johnson told BBC Radio. "When you consider the huge exposure of British pension funds to BP, it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up on the airwaves."

The influential Financial Times newspaper ran a banner front-page headline "UK alarm over attack on BP."

There is no anti British sentiment. There is only an anti oil spilling all over the gulf of Mexico sentiment. Being a British company has nothing to do with anything. Exxon was an American company and they got dumped on when they were evil doers too.

If BP wasn't incompetent to stop the endless tragedy everyone wouldn't be hating on BP. Talking about British Pension funds is out of line. Nobody cares. What about the thousands of people unemployed in the gulf because of BP? Where is the British concern for them?

" It starts to become a matter of national concern for Britain".....It is a matter of National Concern for the USA that their company is ruining everything for thousands of miles.

"UK alarm over attack on BP". BP is NOT the victim. The headline should read America alarmed by the attack by BP. The British perspective is very self serving. The real victims are in the gulf. They will remain the victims for decades to come. Long after the English move on to more important issues this will still be a tragedy for this country.

The British haven't been this misguided since they released the Pan Am bomber because he was dying in three months. It has been 10 months and he is still alive.

Drill baby drill.