Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane View Post
You are implying that the conservative responses were driven by benefits they receive from "big oil", while before you were lamenting that it would be poor pensioners who would suffer if BP would be forced to cut the dividend.
They don't need to cut the dividend in order to exact a punishment on BP, since BP doesn't get hurt by dividends anyway, and shareholders who would benefit from dividends already experienced a over 40% loss on their stocks. There is no need to punish pensioners of both British and Americans nations on-top and contribute to the governments of both nations deficiet, as the government will have to get the money from elsewhere to account for it.

So in reality, do you actually want to pay money instead of BP actually paying it? Tell me, I want to know. Do you want a larger deficit, bigger budget, for a cheap shot which only punishes the tax-payers more?

So what is your view on BP's responsibility? I think I made clear that I believe that they are very much responsible for the current mess and that they should pay for it.

What is your view? Should they pay or should they not (to protect the interests of British pensioners). It is somewhat difficult to eat the cake and keep it.
There are other ways to pay, just simply cutting the dividend payout means we get getting nothing from it, and end up just experiencing budget crisis elsewhere. You should extract additional payment or longterm deals for BP to deal with the mess.