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07/12/2005:

"Ministers are using aid for Africa to cover up for the disaster of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, MP George Galloway has claimed."

He said: "For me [Blair and Brown] are not the Lennon and McCartney of world development issues.

"They are the Status Quo and it's a mangy status quo which will do nothing to resolve the ocean of misery and poverty that exists in the world."

He said the privatisations and the IMF, World Bank, venture capitalists and the "robber barons" of globalised corporations had left poor countries strangled by free market reforms.

"We won't make poverty history until we make the G8 and their system history," he said, pointing to unfair trade rules.

Mr Galloway added: "The poor countries are poor because the rich countries became rich in part through making them and keeping them poor.

"Until a seismic shift of wealth is transferred to the people we robbed then justice will not be done."
Full: bbc.co.uk