I just saw about 30 seconds of Bob saying 'it isn't good enough' on ITV news. He was obviously speaking for much longer but they didn't give him the air time.

Here's a news article on the subject:


Geldof gives U.N. 4/10 on poverty relief
By Mike Peacock

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rocker turned aid activist Bob Geldof gave world leaders an unflattering four out of 10 on Thursday for helping Africa beat poverty. 

The Irish campaigner, who championed the Live 8 global music campaign in July to "make poverty history", also said rich countries were backsliding on commitments to level the playing field on trade. 

Artist Bob Geldof (L) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair attend a briefing on world poverty named "Building on Glenagles," referring to the G8 summit held in July, on the second day of the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 15, 2005. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)
Two months after lauding leaders of the Group of Eight industrial powers for agreements on debt and aid at a meeting in the Scottish town of Gleneagles, he said a U.N. summit under way in New York had failed to live up to their ambition. 

"I'm not thrilled," Geldof told a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at U.N. headquarters. 

"We have actually seen a clawback on the language on trade at Gleneagles." 

Blair said it was time to call the bluff of leaders who promised to scrap tariffs and trade barriers that price poor African nations out of the market. 

He said world trade talks in Hong Kong in December would be the test of rich nations' commitment to help the poor. 

"If we have a failure ... it will echo right around the world. I am not prepared to have that, not without the most monumental struggle," Blair, who chairs the G8 in 2005, said. 

On Wednesday, U.S. President George W. Bush said in a speech to the summit he was prepared to drop all trade barriers if other trading powers did the same. Trade experts say the challenge was unlikely to be taken up. 

Bush also insisted the United States was committed to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, despite earlier U.S. attempts to have the phrase deleted from the summit document. 

Geldof said the U.N. summit had failed to give new impetus to meeting those objectives on alleviating poverty and disease. 

"If that was the benchmark, then I feel a sense of disappointment ... it was suborned by other factors," he said.