When you consider the programme for the G20 summit the thing that strikes is a programme which allows only 4 hours and 35 minutes for discussion, (or less than 14 minutes per member country.) The remainder of the time is the usual junketing/banqueting, Gordo prancing around and photo opportunities. (Of course in private, where no outsider can hear the false promises and horse-trading, there will be a chance to try to browbeat non-believers into agreeing a vacuous statement that all will do "everything possible" to restore the world economy, install international regulation and bear down upon off-shore tax havens.)
Considering the cost and the carbon burned to get them all together, never mind the opportunity for the mindless anti-capitalists to cause great damage to property in London, what is the point?
It is now obvious that some countries not so deep in debt as us will be keen to spend in a desperate hope of reviving their flagging economies and their leader's reputations. There is surely strong and growing opposition within countries and between countries that the most likely outcome is an anodyne platitude called a communique.
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