Hey Tony Hayward, So Long and Thanks for all the Dead Fish

The Beeb is reporting that Tony Hayward, the stonewalling head of BP, who is still waiting for the full reports on the Gulf Spill to come in to form an opinion for its cause, has decided to quit.

From the BEEB here:

BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward has been negotiating the terms of his exit, with a formal announcement likely within 24 hours, the BBC has learned.

Mr Hayward has been widely criticised over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

BBC business editor Robert Peston said it was likely he would be replaced by his US colleague Bob Dudley, now in charge of the clean-up operation.

Mr Hayward has been with the company for 28 years.

He has also been rapped by US congressmen for not taking responsibility for the disaster at its Macondo oil well, which killed 11 people.

He was also taken to task for attending a sailing event in June by those, including the White House, who felt he should have been dealing with the leak.

The man expected to replace him, Bob Dudley, took over the day-to-day operations in the Gulf of Mexico last month.

I don’t fault Tony for taking a cruise on his yacht. But it was clear from the hearings that he was in charge of a company that took disastrous shortcuts in their drilling processes that led to the deaths of their men and the poisoning of the Gulf. Meanwhile, Obama has taken much more vacations and has done even worse to manage the spill. Can Hayward take Obama with him when he leaves?