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Blogging the G8

It is good to see that some dissenting voices are being heard amidst the babble that is surrounding the G8 event.

I find it interesting to see that a moderate voice for the free market like Alex Singleton (who, unlike me, supports Third World debt cancellation) is being attacked by a neo-communist who describe him as a ‘dangerous extremist’, even though Alex’s views on these particular issues are little different from the Department for International Development or that paragon of Thatcherite virtues, Clare Short. Well who knows, perhaps some of Alex’s critics have pecuniary ties to large pharmaceutical companies? It is amazing the enemies you make when you stand up for free trade and against vested interests.

Alex is a splendid chap but frankly I do not find him nearly extreme enough when it comes to Africa, but perhaps that is my job.

7 comments to Blogging the G8

  • Yup, it’s your job to be the revolutionary, Perry! 🙂

  • Forcing taxpayers to hand over their hard earned cash so that farmers can be paid three times world prices for their sugar.

    Thats what I call extremist.

  • EU Serf; I happen to agree with that statement. Alex has got a hard task getting the pro-globo message out there. But at least he is trying and is getting some traction with the press.

  • …But at least he is trying and is getting some traction with the press….

    He’s doing a good job, at least he must be judging by the screams and wailing of the usual suspects.

  • EU-Serf: I think he is doing an excellent job!

  • Concerned Citizen

    Robin Grant is hilarious–we also have him to thank for Operation Clark County! This is the sort of chap who thinks that handing money to tyrants is a good idea … not so much an extremist as a complete vacuum of coherent thought.

  • Julian Morrison

    You know what, I’ve finally understood what this whole “live 8” nonsense is about. I twigged when I heard a quote on the news, something like “this is all about you, the leaders of the G8, because you make the decisions”. Recognise the instinctual pattern: singing and dancing, mass ecstatic rallies, high moral cause, loud appeals for attention and for aid from on high – they’re praying, to the only gods they know.