I reckon this reflects badly on both Mr Geldof and Mr Cameron. Since Cameron was elected, the Conservatives have just reeled of a bunch of tokenistic gestures presumably designed to make them seem more left-wing. Update: MatGB PaulJ does this better.
Archive: Bob Geldof
Quaequam Blog! points out that Bob Geldof thinks emails are “stopping genuine action,” even though Geldof himself was the most useless waste of space of the year.
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G8 — African nil. Make Poverty History is in disarray following the disastrous Geldof hijacking. (Via.)
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George Monbiot reminds us about Bob Geldof — The Man Who Betrayed the Poor.
“Right from the beginning,†says Kofi Mawuli Klu of the Forum of African Human Rights Defenders, “he has acted in his own selfish interests. It was all about self-promotion, about usurping the place of Africans. His message was “shut up and watch meâ€. Without even understanding the root causes of the problems, he used his role to drown the voices of the African people and replace them with his own. There are many knowledgeable people – African and non-African – who could have advised him, but he has been on his own, ego-tripping.â€
Of course, without African poverty Bob Geldof would probably be a nothing.
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