African leaders keep claiming that they need "African solutions to African problems", however their response to the Zimbabwe "problem" is fence-sitting inactivity to a degree beyond which even the Liberal Democrats aspire.

This is shameful, irresponsible, gravely unfair to the oppressed Zimbabwean people and a disgrace to the leaders' own people. Were they really elected to do so little?

In response, my personal "European solution to African stupidity" is quite simple; African goods will join those of China and Burma, and remain on the shelves of the shops I frequent. This small gesture in itself may do little, but I encourage others to do the same.