A couple of comments from British newspapers this morning

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They called it the "perp walk" - the moment BP executives marched up to the White House for what the Independent calls a "presidential spanking".

"Perp walk", the Guardian tells us, is American slang for a police parade of suspects - short for "perpetrator".

The paper says BP's $20bn compensation fund and suspension of dividends is President Obama's "pound of flesh".

The Daily Mail says it was a day of BP-bashing by a president who, it claims, "bullied" the firm into capitulation.
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