by The Ace1983 » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:51 pm
The government won't get involved because Bulgaria doesn't have any oil. Doesn't matter whether the powers that be are red, blue or yellow, it won't happen and I'm not just being cynical. Robert Mugabe has single handedly destroyed Zimbabwe, but the resources there are no use to us. China has the most abominable human and animal rights records and even when pictures were published a few months back of a baby girl who had been left to die in a gutter because she was unwanted, nothing was said and nothing was done. Turkmenistan's leader is completely insane and is surpressing his people in a way that Joseph Stalin would have been envious of, but because our gas lines run through his country, we do nothing.
Bulgaria is worthless to Britain, except that when they join the EU, we'll get money and concessions from them and we can all have cheaper holidays. All we can do is force the press to take notice. People need to go to the BBC, Sky, C4, The Mirror, The Times and every other media outlet you can think of and pressure them into running an article, or taking a petition. The trick has always been to get the government to worry about losing votes. When they think their popularity is sinking, they'll act fast. If you know someone who works at a national, or for a production company, or an ad-agency or even a freakin' town cryer, tell them about it and get them to say something. One documentary and a few articles on page 29 won't do jack. More press, means more pressure.
