Of course the group of people who are actually responsible for making a complete nation throughly ashamed of itself is the one group who would be surprised, offended even, that anyone should think that they should give up the income and perks derived from doing nothing except vote when they are told to, and not even knowing that it was all going horribly wrong.
Some of them are Spanish, of course, and wouldn't actually care, even if they did know.
They are all frightfully nice chaps, I expect. You know, the kind of
team player who doesn't rock the boat.
Step forward the Directors of both companies. For further amusing reading on the backgrounds of these useless idiots, and their qualifications to run our national airline and primary gateways, there's a link under each list. In fact some of the links to BA Directors have been preserved when I copied the list.
The BAA list is, as we can see, out of date. However I've left it like it is because both lists are lifted from their websites today. Why is it no surprise that it's wrong?
British Airways
Martin Broughton, Chairman
Willie Walsh, Chief Executive
Keith Williams, Chief Financial Officer
Martin van den Bergh Non-Executive Director
Baroness Kingsmill Non-Executive Director
Jim Lawrence Non-Executive Director
Baroness Symons Non-Executive Director
Ken Smart Non-Executive Director
Alison Reed Non-Executive Director
Dr Martin Read Non-Executive Director
Chumpol NaLamlieng Non-Executive Director
http://www.bashares.com/phoenix.zhtm...=irol-govBoard
(Don't you just love " Alison Reed is a Trustee of Whizz-Kidz. She was a Trustee of BBC Children in Need from 1994 - 2000. Alison’s interests include travel and theatre. She enjoys long walks on the beach on the south coast." BA's safe in her hands, then.)
BAA
Sir Nigel Rudd, Non-Executive Chairman
Stephen Nelson, Chief Executive Officer
José Leo, Chief Financial Officer
Luis Sánchez Salmerón, Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Eng Seng Ang, Non-Executive Director
Richard Drouin, Non-Executive Director
Renaud Faucher, Non-Executive Director
Ghislain Gauthier, Non-Executive Director
Ínigo Meirás, Deputy Chairman and Non-Executive Director
José María Pérez Tremps, Non-Executive Director
Lord Stevens, Non-Executive Director
Nicolás Villén Jimenez, Non-Executive Director
http://www.baa.com/portal/page/Corpo...0357e120a____/
Are we going to see any non-exec Director sackings for doing a bad job?
Ummmm, no. We're even unlikely to see many executive sackings, in my view.