Mr. Alan Dukes:

-----you wonder where the intersection between politics and practicality comes. It was made very clear to me, certainly from an early stage, that the ... that Brussels wanted Anglo gone. There was a great deal of political comment from all sides of the political spectrum from 2010 on and certainly for a period in early 2011 when other things were going on, when people were saying "Yes, get this off the landscape, get rid of it as quickly as possible." But as these things often happen, when people find themselves with the reins in their hands they find the horse is not going to go quite where they thought it was going to go in the first place and that it's maybe better to jump the ditch than to take the gully over the other side of the road.