[WillowTheWhisp]

OK let's just suppose for a minute that we agree on the fact that Live8 was about raising awareness of the situation in Africa. The concert tickets were only obtainable through phone lottery type "competitions" which did not necessarily mean that those who wanted to go got to go.

There were people who wanted to go to the concerts who would have been willing to buy tickets from those who had tickets. This did not in any way shape or form affect the attendance at the concert, the performance of the artists, the situation of the people on Africa or Mr. Geldof himself - what it may have done and more than likely did do was draw more attention to the concerts by having the auctions on eBay mentioned in the press, so in fact what they were doing was drawing more awareness to the concerts and consequently to Sir Robert's altruistic intentions. I fail to see what the problem was with that but he came out accusing those who sold their tickets of profiteering out of the musery of the starving people in Africa.

Now attention has been drawn to Mr. Geldof and his saintly ways and he is earning money from talks he gives on the subject of the starving people of Africa. Is this not him making money out of those starving people of Africa? So why is it acceptable for him to do so after he criticised others for doing so?

OK, I don't know what he does with his money and I don't particularly care, but neither did he know what people would have done with the money they made from the sale of their Live8 tickets. Perhaps he prevented a lot of money going to charity by insisting that a stop be put to those sales.

It still sounds like hypocrisy to me.

I'm not saying that he probably isn't a very kind and loving father/stepfather-once removed and that he may well be very generous with his own money but I do seem to recall at the time of Paula Yates' death he said that he had "accidentally" adopted her child by something he said at the time which was misinterpreted.

If he doesn't expect people to question his motives he should have thought a little bit before he made such sweeping statements and incalled for unpleasant comments abut the Live8 tickets. From that point he went down in my estimation, especially considering some tickets were actually SOLD to VIPs by the concert organisers themselves! I'm doing a competition at the moment to win a house. If I won it and subsequently decided to sell it I would be peeved if the competition organiser tried to prevent me from doing so. I just think BG overstepped the mark and has now left his own money making actions open to crtiticism.