5 live Breakfast: Stories from Haiti

OK. This is what I think. Why hasn't someone paid the Haitian people wages to clear and rebuild their country? There seem to be thousands of people wandering aimlessly around causing trouble who have no will to help themselves. How did Europe rebuild after the terrible bombings in the war?



We can give them the tools and money to rebuild but we aren't their keepers, they need to get off the victim trip and start to help themselves. I am sorry if this comes over as harsh but this is what I feel.

I sort of agree, it would be much better for all of the able bodied to feel they were contributing to the renewal of their previously very run down country.



I would like to know where all the aid and charity money has gone.

Yes, I have read a good deal about the programmes and NGO work in Haiti. However the strongest memory of the last year, even up until yesterday, is of people in post traumatic shock and also still in disbelief, who are asking for homes, food and help as if this assistance hasn't yet reached them. Part of this is surely due to the extreme poverty and run down districts that were there before the earthquake and which haven't even had any attention yet.



There is still no full answer to how much has been donated and where it has gone. Too many aid workers fly in, do a stint, then fly out again. The costs of this alone must be staggering.



My point is that the people who really need the help do not seem to have been largely touched as yet. Puts me in mind of working voluntarily for a charity, raising six figures for it, and then being invited to professionally fund raise for them for a very large salary - that made me feel that all the work I and my team had done free was paying for a group of professionals who sat back, earned the money by "overlooking" what we were doing for free, and justified their salary by the size of the funds we raised.

Can we have a blog to post about the Radio 5Live station please? Urgently.

After this mornings VD programme I couldn't agree more Carrie. AND....... Where is the phone-in blog we were promised too?

I see comment are now closed on the FA Cup Third Round post, didn't like the comments about the "most democratic station" Nigel?



Good to see Richard Bacon covering the big issues of the day, ‘What is the point of Katie Price?’



I can think of another ‘minor celebrity’ that the question could be asked about, eh Dickey?

So Hasit/Nigel you close the FA Cup Blog, without answering the questions? Why is that?

Thanks for the reply Nigel, it is encouraging to note,that you have noted our ideas,however would it not be better to answer the questions,rather than noting them?

Anyone hear the Nicky Campbell phone-in this morning? What a shambles. Would be much better to have a programme called 'The Daily Debate' in which three people with opinions on a topic discuss in a sane and INFORMED manner (and in the studio) the topic of the day.



This morning's programme was just a shouting match that Campbell either lost control of or simply lost interest and was happy to let ramble on. It highlights why phone in programmes are just so bad. (PS: There was then a contribution from some woman on the VD programme that was so cringeworthy that I switched off). Grim stuff from a national broadcaster.

At the risk of repeating myself, seeing as we are approaching a big weekend of Sport with 5live providing commentary on 3 Premiership games, as well as live Tennis featuring Murray, as well as other sports,would it not be a good idea to publish a blog on what commentary teams you will be using, which special guests will be used as pundits, where you commetary positions will be based in the staidums, etc etc etc



It seems this blog is being wasted, when there is so much potential, and so much to talk about, with 5live covering so much sport live!!



Its all very well Nigel, for you to say our ideas have been noted, but i think that translates into, we are not bothered, and we will blog about subjects which we 5live staff are intrested in.