A Good Day To Bury Bad News

[TonyGosling]

David Miliband's Foreign Office (FO) put this out a little after the event, as Obama's election swamped the media. Sure passed me by, what about anyone else?

[TonyGosling]

As if that wasn't totalitarian enough here's another one

UK security clearance chief quits over failure to check HIS own staff
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083651/Security-clearance-chi ef-quits-failure-check-HIS-staff.html

By James Slack
Last updated at 10:36 PM on 06th November 2008


Mike Wilson, chief executive at the SIA, has resigned over security blunders

The boss of the Government agency that vets security guards quit his £100,000-a-year job last night after admitting some of his own staff did not have proper clearance.

Mike Wilson was forced out after 14 months as chief executive of the Security Industry Authority, which has licensed more than 40,000 guards in four years.

The Home Office is reviewing all decisions made by staff who were not vetted for criminal records or immigration status. Seven did not have clearance.

At least one has since failed a security check.

It will check if guards passed to work in posts such as pubs or Government sites were wrongly cleared.

Last year, the authority was found to have cleared more than 7,000 illegal immigrants to work as guards and last month, the National Audit Office accused it of overspending by £17million.............

[Disco_Destroyer]

But surely it was British meddling that propted Tibet to vie for independence? I'm not sure on the full history of it but has Tibet ever been recognised as independent and when? Has it ever been Legaly ratified or is it another Palestine senario?

[gruts]

maybe this will help (at least to define the arguments on each side)....

Tibet sovereignty debate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate

[Disco_Destroyer]

No it conveniently doesn't go far back enough!
When did the 1st British Missionaries enter? Presumably from India?
Was tibet China at this time? talking 1700-1900s

[Disco_Destroyer]

In fact starting at 1912 is like talking of Collapse Initiation but not going on to explain total collapse

[gruts]

eh?

sample quote: "The government of the PRC contends that China has had control over Tibet since the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)."

[Disco_Destroyer]

Ah yes I read a little farther :0
and found Britain going in via the Back Door as usual!
I mean how can they draw up a legal document without China being present??
They obviously knew what they were doing!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simla_Convention