16 deaths in a North Sea helicopter crash. Fly and Die.
The reckless pursuit of oil and gas industry profits, as approved by the UK state, the Queen and her ministers, claimed 16 lives and made April fools of all North Sea workers. 1st April 2009.
BBC: Helicopter crash probe continues
Bastard Salmond, bastard Brown and the bastard Queen all expressed fake concern for the lives of 16 workers lost but it was their fault they died.
Oh sure, BP and Bond Helicopters are to blame too - but they operate with the agreement and under the regulations set by the state.
The UK state passes no regulation, imposes no fine, which ever threatens the profits of the oil companies. That is the fault of the head of state, the Queen and her ministers of state - Prime Minister Brown and First Minister Salmond and their governments.
Do Scottish, British and other workers want to die for these bastards? I certainly don't.
You wouldn't catch me commuting to an oil rig via helicopters which drop out of the sky like a stone when they fail.
Oh helicopters can be made safer than that - if you are willing to pay. You don't often hear of "Marine One", the helicopter which carries the US President or the Queen's flight helicopter crashing with all lives lost, do you?
But then the heads of state can spend the money on the safest helicopters, maintained and piloted in the safest possible way. Not so in the oil industry.
When BP hands out the contracts for helicopter transport, do they choose the safest or the cheapest? They will SAY "safety is the priority" but we all know that profits are the priority so they will opt for the cheapest contracts they can get away with which save money at the expense of safety.
If the North Sea industry can't afford to fly helicopters safely then they should ferry the workers by ship.
Not forgetting the
"Herald of Free Enterprise" ferry disaster of 1987 wherein 193 passengers died and the Titanic before that of course. So ships can be dangerous too, if you allow royalists any say in the way they are captained.
With a stupid head of state, refusing to sack stupid ministers, you must expect stupid people in charge to cause death and disasters regularly.
The only coherent solution is to have an intelligent head of state, a good president of a republic and a republican revolution to overthrow the monarchy and the UK is the right way to go. Workers could strike and demand a republican revolution to better their conditions of employment.
If instead Scots and Britons insist on keeping on working for these royal twits then
"be prepared to die in avoidable accidents" would be my warning.
