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Originally Posted by Steph
i agree with you chav i respect the celebs that donate secretly yet because the scruffy hobo ex celeb swamp (boomtown) rat has not been in the papers for a while then all of a sudden he comes up with band 8 and anyway what does the 8 stand for cos the first one was 20 years ago
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Steph......the 8 comes from the G8 Summit that is being held at Gleneagles........the International Monetary Fund (of which there are 8 members I think.......) get together and discuss how to manage world debt.
Gordon Brown is going to try to get some concensus of opinion to cancel out at least SOME of the third world debt.
It is Ok to wipe out the debt of the third world countries, but in practice this may not benefit the poor people. The money may go into the coffers of the corrupt governments and may in fact then encourage them to incur more debt in the hope that this too will be wiped out at a future date.
Charity begins at home.......we have people in THIS country who could do with a helping hand.