I am in both camps...more specifically the latter...the Irish have a saying based on historical fact... dating back over 500 hundred years ago...it's called "Chancing Your Arm"...while the shorts are chancing their arms...on a stock that could turn at any moment...BP is playing the Long game of attrition/undermining...to their advantage...
Whomever raises their buyout/acquisition head...in the room...although they may appear be a suitor...They are Not a friend.