Gordon Brown is touted as having a sharp brain. At least that’s what his mum says. This observation is also made by many pundits within the UK press who, one can only assume, are blunt brained. Brown, the new UK Prime Minister, is on a gadabout right now, smooching and schmoozing with the demented (G W Bush) and the deluded (the United Nations) and no doubt anyone else that’s worth a press call.
In today’s “The Independent” there runs the following:
Brown: We are failing the world’s poorest countries
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in New York
Published: 01 August 2007 The Independent
(Click HERE for full article)
Gordon Brown declared a “global emergency” yesterday as he launched a major new campaign to tackle poverty, ill health and poor education in the developing world.
Launching his first major foreign policy initiative since becoming prime minister, he admitted that world leaders had failed to lived up to their promises to solve the crisis in the poorest nations.
His “wake-up call” won the backing of 12 other leaders, including President George Bush, and the bosses of 20 global companies, including Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates. The campaign, to be run through the UN, will be based on a new partnership between governments, the private sector and faith and pressure groups.
These are dumb remarks, deceptive ones too, though whether Brown is aware of this no one knows, not even Brown himself. His “wake-up call” won’t work either. It never has and never will. Because the only action that will transform this situation PERMANENTLY, is an action that none of them are willing to take.
Or will take.
Ever.
The action that needs to be taken is a simple one by the way and it’s this.
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