Sir Ivor Roberts, a former British diplomat, has denounced a lifetime confidentiality agreement demanded by the Foreign Office as “unworkable and draconian”, and has refused to sign it.
“A note came round from the Foreign Office inviting us to sign up and I declined. I thought it was a wholly unreasonable change to the conditions of service I had signed up to when I joined the Foreign Office 40 years ago.”
The change followed the publication of a book by Sir Christopher Meyer, a former ambassador to Washington. The book, DC Confidential, gave an account of talks between Tony Blair’s government and the Bush administration in the months leading up to the Iraq invasion.
Sir Ivor caused uproar in 2004 with leaked remarks calling US President George Bush “al-Qaida’s best recruiting sergeant”.
Tee hee.
Seems like someone in the UK read 1984
Its nice seeing a country steeped in tradition and ceremony remodel itself based on a fictional novel about a totalitarian state.
CHEESE FIGHT…
I’m SCARED!!!
A buddy, who is an inside source, just told me that A NON-USA COUNTRY is working towards a CHANGE TO THE ‘GOLD STANDARD’. Gold is a shiny rock, with some interesting properties – but KNOWLEDGE is nearly priceless in capitalistic economies!!!
Eventually, their GOAL is to change “GOLD STANDARD” to “KNOWLEDGE STANDARD” – and set up a testing regime where they numerically calculate national ability based on KNOWLEDGE, with TESTING and all that. IQs, Bell curves based on national IQ, this will AFFECT ALL CITIZENS of ANY NATIONALITY…
As a US Citizen, THIS CONCERNS ME — because most of my compatriots are utter friggin’ morons more concerned with sports statistics and Hollywood Whores behavior… the “Conspiracy Theorists” might actually be right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile, THE country in question HAS BEEN EDUCATIONALLY AHEAD OF THE USA FOR YEARS!!!!
So, crawl into your hole and don’t pray – or COME OUT FIGHTING!!!!!
-Scared!!!