G8 Policies Will Do To The 3rd world What Mugabe Has Done To Zimbabwe

So Gordon Brown decided to be a Blair to George Bush in return for a US policy which would be tough on Mugabe and give Brown some sort of foreign policy victory.
One caricaturist portrayed Brown as a lapdog where Bush is seen to be commenting
'this doggy even better than the last one'.One would have thought that it was not ideal timing to give a lecture to the British Public on our 'buy one get one free'
culture of waste.A message that was made all the more farcical once it was revealed that this years G8 summit had cost the hosts £500 million.A figure incidentally which
is greater than the amount Japan (the world's second largest economy) is increasing it's aid by to the world's poorest countries.So little was achieved in this summit
in terms of addressing the issues surrounding our current global environmental and food crisis that analysts have been left with very little to comment on.One thing
the majority of g8 commentators can agree on is that the failure to meet Gleneagles
summit pledges on aid and debt relief will lead to millions of deaths through malnutrition, starvation and disease.
The reason why this reflects so negatively on Gordon Brown is that, Global Poverty, is his Terra Firma.It is the one area where he has pitched himself to be
better than the rest and a potential source of influence on less willing countries.
As it turns out his influence,much like his faltering resolve in the face of global recession,was and is as weak as the will of the lame and by in large domestically weak leaders of the G8.
Brown thought that all these failings could be masked if he could just be seen to be tackling the Zimbabwe situation.However he got royally duped by the Russians
who are incidentally not too pleased that the British legal system is being used to
implicate their president (in all but name) Vladimir Putin.So having given positive signals at the G8 and for a brief instance allowing Gordon to be every bit the statesman that he has for 10 years aspired to be, they pulled the rug from under his feet by vetoing further UN action against Mugabe at the security council.The Russians feel with some justification that given the dropping of charges
against the Saudis in The AL Yamama Bribery scandal, which has made a mockery of the whole British Legal system, the British government can no longer pick and choose where they decide to turn a blind eye for political expediency.