So you lose your company £21billion, a record loss of £5million an hour.
So you wipe £24billion off its value.
So you have to agree to donate a multi-billion pound fund to the people whose lives you have destroyed.
So you have pumped vast amounts of oil into the Gulf and potentially destroyed fragile eco-systems.
So you have brought Britain’s biggest company to its knees.
Are you:
a) jailed?
b) made to pay it back over a 500 century period?
c) pensioned off with a fat remuneration?
That’s right, it’s c). Like the bankers, the hedge fund directors and the tax evaders, gaffe supremo Tony Hayward will discover that the wealthy are lauded on high for incompetence. ‘Toxic Tony’ was moaning as he shuffled away from the top job that he had been ‘demonised’, failing to understand that you can only use the word if the act of demonising is unfair. If you are in fact a bona fide demon, then it becomes a useless tautology. Hayward will receive one million pounds in salary and a £10.8million pension as a reward for one of the greatest failures in European corporate history.
No wonder Mr Hayward has a permanent smirk on his face!
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