This meeting sucks, Berlusconi - call the girls!

It feels like we are always having G8's or G12's or G20's. I do remember when there was maybe one a year? now it seems like we cant go five minuets without the world's leaders getting together under their self fashioned rap name. For any body not familiar with the G8\12\20 (we will just call them the G-unit shall we?) its essentially a big meeting between the richest countries where they sit around and discuss important things that smaller, crapper countries wouldn't understand.

its held in a different country every time, this weeks being in Italy hosted by playboy Berlusconi, who has very kindly taken time out from leaching over teenage glamour models and brushing off some very public divorce proceedings to accommodate our very own Gordon Brown, Jesus H. Obama and the rest of the big players. After a few photos for their face books, a bit of lunch and a nice mutual blow-job for the press' benefit the real work can begin...

Increasingly this "real work" consists of trying to feel out an agreement for how to cut carbon emissions and put a stop to climate change - as it rightly should. Luckily we are generally past all the "climate change doesn't exist" bull shit. Its unbelievable that some people took this view to be quite honest - to say we, the human race, might not cause climate change is a feeble argument but at least it makes some sense! but saying climate change doesn't exist at all! what was the Ice Age then dick heads? just a bad winter that went on a few weeks longer than normal? try a few thousand years longer.

Anyway, having established that climate change can (and does) happen we could start making progress - and we have. The G unit now fairly unanimously accept that climate change is happening and that its likely their smoky, power hungry little countries that are doing it. So maybe this summet could be the one! an agreement finally reached! years of expensive procrastination at lofty global board meetings might finally produce a positive outcome!

no.

Because, even though they all agree and know they should do something, when it comes round to actually taking action... well, it all sounds a bit too much like hard work. China and India don't want to cut emissions because their Industry dependent countries would loose income, America wont do anything unless everyone dose and once their not taking part frankly what is the point? and they all fly home in their fuel guzzling privet jets... still i hear the food was good and i'm sure Berlusconi wouldn't let an afternoon pass without a few lap dancers to keep the guys going so we'll just call it another expenses-paid holiday shall we? brilliant.