There’ll always be a Menzies while there’s a BHP

For they have paid their dividends since 1883.

There’ll always be a Menzies ‘though nothing else prevails,

As long as nothing happens to the Bank of New South Wales…

While the spirit of Sir Robert Menzies, satirised in this 1950s undergraduate song, lives on for at least some current members of the Liberal Party, things are looking a bit grim for both BHP and the Wales in its modern manifestation as Westpac.