Give your vote to the third world

For too long those of us living in the rich west have complained about the injustice of world poverty, without doing what is needed to end it.

We are rich enough to solve the problem, but our leaders have lacked the political will to solve it in our name.

But we cannot blame them for this. They lack the political will, because we have never given them the political mandate to spend enough of our money to really make a decisive difference.

We have never really shown them that this is what we want them to do with our money.

And that we are prepared to pay the cost without punishing them at the ballot box.

There is only one way that we can show them this.

There is only one place where we can speak clearly enough for them to really listen.

And there is only one thing we possess which has the power to change the minds and policies of those who govern this country in our name.

If we really want to help those who are living in extreme poverty in the third world, then we must vote for it.

We must vote for them.