BP's Hayward: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. [View All]

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Full quote:

Hayward acknowledges that he has been the public face of BP during the crisis, which he claims has helped his colleagues get on with the job of fixing the leak.

"So far I'm unscathed.... no-one has physically harmed me."

"They've thrown some words at me, but I'm a Brit. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, or however the saying goes."

BP has decided to appoint a new face and a new division to the oil spill:

"The oil giant is splitting off its clean-up operations into a new division, run by Bob Dudley.
Setting up a new organisation set up to look after spill is a good idea!
Tony Hayward can keep the main business on track while Bob Dudley( ex-boss of TNK-BP) is an American citizen which should play better in US.
Dudley was effectively kicked out of Russia but dealt very well with a highly charged political situation in Moscow.
Right man for the job and good counter to Hayward whose "Britishness" seems to have been counting against him."

All information above taken from a reports on a conference call by BP,
See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/04/bp-chief-executive-faces-investors-gulf-oil-spill