Stephen Pollard points out everything that’s wrong with the idiotic Make Poverty History campaign:
According to Make Poverty History: “We need trade justice, not free trade . . . ensuring poor countries can feed their people by protecting their own farmers and staple crops.†With that, the campaign destroys any claim it might have to serving the interests of the poor.
The point is that it is precisely free trade that makes poor countries rich. Read the whole article.
I commented on this last year when I first encountered it at the Glastonbury Festival, and later when it was the subject of a BBC sitcom.
It is nice to read something that dares to be even slightly critical of the make poverty history campaign.
Why do people fail to consider things in a rigerous manner when a few celebrities endorse it?
The world is full of misguided do-gooders