Are you in - Oxfam poverty campaign

I'm sure most of you have seen the last Oxfam advert, asking "Are you in?"

It's a campaign to get 1,000,000 to pledge their support in helping end World Poverty.

Great cause - haven't got a problem with that. Supported last year's Make Poverty History campaign too!

And that's where the TV question comes in - last year OFCOM (completly wrongly IMO) banned the Make Poverty History TV ads as they stated they were political.

Now, surely the Oxfam ads are basically asking people to do exactly the same thing - so how come these ads are allowed?

Did they? I missed that. I also agree that that's a pretty outrageous decision by OFCOM.

Great cause, etc. etc.
But perhaps we should stop signing our names and clicking our fingers if we're expecting something to change.

Make Poverty History - lost all credibility in my eyes after the outrageous stunt last Christmas with The Vicar of Dibley 'special'.

I sympathise with the aims of reducing poverty and deprivation but do not see why it should always seem to be a one way process, help yes but wholescale debt relief no.

Can't recall who said it, but some comedian pointed out that if a child dies everytime we click our fingers - the solution is to simply stop clicking your fingers!

That would be Jimmy Carr.

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I'd like to buy a bucket, if it's a good price. Though knowing what Oxfam shops are like, it won't be.

I remember that. It was the New Year Day special. Don't have a clue what they were thinking. Great cause, but there is a time and a place.

Presumably because Oxfam is trying to get a million people to raise money to help the third world. There's no putting pressure on politicians involved.