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What a charade ! I am so incensed I am tempted to leave my City bank desk and join the great unwashed at the Bank of England for some shenanigans. Gordon Brown is so low he could walk under a snake wearing stilts and a top hat.

- Squiz, Islington

Will any of the recipients be worth their metal and say a polite 'no thank you' or are they all from the take, take, take, brigade.

- Anon, uk

Oh Lord, it just gets worse by the minute. What a waste of money.The whole thing will achieve nothing.

- Michael Riley, London

Maybe Gordon would be better off handing around a hat at the end of the G20 and asking the other 19 to make a contribution for their board and lodgings?

- Nobby Clark, Perth, Scotland

Yes - some of the items in the G20 Goody Bag will be Pa Broone's Notes on how to 'Run a Bank', and a boxed set of Tony Blair's Speeches from the past 10 years of Labour Party conferences.

- Uncle Vanya, East Angular Area UK

makes a complete mockery of what they are here for in the first place

- Wallytrader, London

I do hope they think twice about putting a tie in Chancellor Merkel's bag. As bribes go, it seems a bit ill-considered...

- Dollimore, London, UK

Did they not learn anything from Brown's visit to the US a couple of months ago? Brown gave Obama some seriously expensive trinkets while Obama gave Brown some cheapy box sets of DVDs. The point is that is not the right time to be trying to impress by giving useless expensive gifts, aren't they supposed to be trying to talk about how to fix the economy ??

- Louise, Essex

This "circus" is causing tax payers millions of pounds when all 20 leaders could have communicated by video link. Gordon Brown in his latest attempt at "showcasing" himself is a laughing stock around the world but sadly the British tax payer is not laughing as he is inviting protests and riots in the streets of London, placing our police officers in the front line, and risking potential harm to shops, shop keepers and commuters.

- R.F., Yorks, UK

If I were Mr Boateng I'd be designing a good old fashioned London tie for certain of the G20 leaders, it would be in the Tyburn style.

- Bob, Cheam

I have an Idea why not pop a Porno DVD into the goodie bag to show the G20 leaders what our hard up tax payers money is spent on.I agree we need this meeting but why oh why are we wasting money like this? What is the TOTAL cost just for these bags?

- Selwyn Channon, epsom

A tea towel? How very strange. Is the candle in case we have a power cut whilst they're visiting?

- Isabel, Woking

Its disgraceful the taxpayer has to pay for this to world leaders who can easily afford such luxuries. Have the generous Gordon Brown and his lackeys received different quotations and lowest prices for the gifted goodies or do they just accept the highest price quoted as it is not their cash they are spending anyway!!

- Peter Noterfed, Paris, France

Wow! I thought the government were stupid, but this really takes the biscuit. How out of touch are they? Have any of them spoken to a non-politician in the last 12yrs?

- Mark, London

GOODIE !


Guess who is paying ?

- Bernard Parke, GUILDFORD

A tea towel? How many world leaders does Gordon think do their own dishes?

- Maire, London

Can't these World Leaders buy their own goodies?

Not only have the tax payers got to prop up the government,banks and financial services; we have to prop up the worlds most powerful people as well with goodie bags.

Yet we let our old people live on the poorest pensions in the developed world, and deny them medical equality over the age of 65 years etc.

I hope President Obama knows how the British Government treat its own deprived people; and I hope he gives his goodie bag back to Brown.

- Mickyinlondon, london

Who is footing the bill is bloody obvious. If they are taking hundreds of thousands in expenses from the public, then I hardly think they will be putting their hands in their pockets for designer gear.

- Frank, Home Counties, England.

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