Post war Iraq is bust. The country owes $383,000,000,000 to various companies, banks and countries from loans/credit which it took to build palaces, buy weapons and such. Mark Thomas decides to try and help out by taking it onto himself to try to raise money to help them out.
Mark Thomas is becoming more and more hit and miss as he goes - I don't know why this has happened, maybe his bigger targets mean that he can't come to conclusions or tell the audience useful things to do in the way he used to with his stand up show. However he usually can give out useful facts and be amusing at the same time.
This show is actually much better than many of his more recent shows and is a real eye opener. His stunts are actually funny without being silly or stupid as some of his more recent stunts have been. True he kidnaps a busload of arms dealers and plays arms bingo on a tube train, but they are amusing and put a point across.
Again, the problem is that, for all his stunts, he cannot get anywhere and indeed only raises about £250 from the show (of course, I know that is not the point!), he is also unable to help us ordinary people see what we can do to help, and even appeals to those involved directly at the end of his show.
What he does do well though, is to bring this to my attention - I didn't realise it. The show closes on a very sombre note and makes a point that Thomas is respectful enough to allow us to deduce ourselves - a clip of Tony Blair saying: `The justice of our cause lies in the liberation of the Iraqi people, and to them we say, we will liberate you, the day of your freedom draws near'. If this is true then why shouldn't the Governments put on the pressure to cancel the debt and to free up the Iraqi people to get investment and not have to pay off the debt (equal to about £16000 per Iraqi); But I guess that liberation by military might makes for better television than liberation by kindness and economic grace.