What was the G20 exactly?
by Graham Davies

The G20 is where the leaders of the 19 richest countries in the world all stare at Gordon Brown and say, "What the fuck are you doing here?"

Here is the comprehensive and highly predictable list of what was decided by these intellectual titans:

• The Recession is a jolly bad thing
• They need to spend lots of money to sort it out
• It would be good for the Stock Market to pose for a jolly photograph with our thumbs up

And that was about it. Of course, it did not really matter what they came up with, as long as they all decided to do the same thing. It was hardly likely that any country was going to be so indifferent to PR as to say, "Bollocks to all of you. We disagree and we're not signing anything". Not even the French.

Clearly World Leaders have their own perspective on what amounts to Value for Money. 36 hours of the summit cost over 20 million pounds. It won't take them long to get through a Trillion.