What we see from G8 leaders today is a complete failure of moral leadership. The response so far is like rearranging the deckchairs on the sinking Titanic, and from today’s statement it is clear they are now rushing for the lifeboats to save the privileged few – leaving the rest of us to drown. The level of support for bank bailouts in one year is more than total support for poverty eradication in the last 50 years. If the G8 fails to act with urgency and courage, and Put People First, they betray their own citizens and the rest of the world; and it raises yet again the illegitimacy of the G8
