The real victims of the hijacked student demo are the Chinese

Watching the BBC's all to predictable reporting of the left wing thuggery in London today when agitators hijacked naive students into the disgrace we saw today it occurred to me who the real victims of their selfish and self righteous indulgence were. The Chinese people.

The BBC does its best to make trouble for David Cameron on his visit to China ( where he is fighting for the economic future of us all by the way ). They complain that this or that dissident wasn't mentioned and no denouncement of China was made by David Cameron.

But remember the Chinese looked to London today and saw the party headquarters of the governing party being threatened by a rabble of anarchists and naive students. What do you think they concluded ? Of course they will have thought the UK is far too lax and that the result of democracy and freedom of protest are the self destructive behaviour seen today.

So not only were left wing students campaigning to get poor non graduates to pay part of their fees through taxation, but they put back the cause of democracy and freedom in the East also.

They should all hang their heads in shame - if only they had the sense to feel shame.

The breakdown of the normal rule of law in the US

Its possible that after the appalling incident in the Gulf of Mexico with the Deepwater Horizon and the loss of life and follow on environmental incident that BP has done more than almost any other oil company would do.

They haven't hid away. They haven't tried to blame other companies involved, who are instead hiding behind BP. Their chief executive is now based in the US trying to ensure that the company is fully focused on mitigating and stopping the sub sea blowout. They have said straight away that they won't seek protection from costs that they are entitled to after laws following the Exxon Valdez were enforced.

None of this has bought any credit at all with the anti-British Obama.

At first it looked like he was trying to avoid blame for the rather obvious US govt failings on safety regulation and enforcement. Later it seemed he was nursing his grudge against the British Empire from his Father. But now with the dividend issue you have to start wondering if the real target isn't BP itself. The US govt might make pension funds desperate for income willing to sell BP shares at a low price to a US company. The US may be trying the sort of sovereign thuggery that is normally associated with a certain country east of Poland.

Or perhaps a punch up with the UK Govt. is his long term aim.

Either way its no way for a supposed friendly nation who we have spent much money and lives supporting over the last few years to behave.

Lets remember its not just Obama - the Democrat party could step in to stop this, but they haven't.

The normal rules of commerce and equality before the law appear to just be fair-weather principles in the US.

It is perhaps time to review who it is in the world we can really rely on.