geldof

sir bob (as he is called) is going to be working with the tory party as part of their "globalisation and global poverty" action group.
apparently sir bob is going to remain non-partisan although cameron has said sir bob will help it "go in the direction that he and we both want to go", which strikes me as a different definition to non-partisan than the one i know.

i would hate to think that sir bob is doing this because he thinks the conservatives (when do we start calling them new tories?) are going to get into power and that this is his best shot at keeping his name and face associated with the poverty campaign for the years ahead. (not that i am suggesting for a minute that sir bob is foing this for his own benefit.....)

and is it just me that finds it odd to hear the tory party going on about caring for the poor and wanting to try to rescue the poor ? (ok give them props for making sure that their way of helping erradicate poverty includes having a pop at red tape culture and europe, but old hatreds die hard......)

poverty, the enviroment whatever next for the new tories - liberalising drugs? anti-war marches? coherent policies .... steady on old chap.....