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Originally Posted by dong20  I doubt it.
Regardless of the fact that the 2012 games will end up costing about £10bn - latest budget is £9.35bn - which started at about £3.4bn. Over half of which is taxpayer funded.
This is against (hard to find) estimated revenues of: - Tourism £2bn
- TV rights £2bn
- Merchandising ...£?
Very little of which will filter down to those actually footing the bill. But it will trigger regeneration and improvements in public transport and infrastructure, but wait - we're paying for those too.
It would be cheaper for the UK to 'free' Tibet. I'm not advocating it, merely comparing value for money.  |
Britain passed up on a request for a protectorate for Tibet. When the XIII Dalai Lama was in India in 1910 he asked for a treaty identical to that which had just been negotiated with Bhutan: help in defense against external aggression, management of foreign affairs, non interference in internal affairs.(Bhutan is Tibetan in language, culture, religion and architecture) China has also had claims of feudal overlordship of Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Baltistan, areas historically all or part Tibetan.
The Chinese have been as cruel toward peoples they consider inferior, not just the Tibetans, but also the Turkestani's and Mongols, as the Japanese were in WWII. This was the case under the Manchu and the ROC as well as the PRC.