The World Bank recently estimated that 2.8 million children could die by 2015 if the global financial crisis is not checked. Commenting on this the Prime Minister Gordon Brown commented:
"It is as if the entire population of Rome were to die in the next five years."
(Times, 21 February)
This from the leader of the Labour Party who vigorously defend the killer society that is capitalism! RD
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