Re: OT on the Whoniverse:
CoE suffered like far too much of [i]Torchwood[/i] and indeed NuWho of obviously being formed around a particular soundbite of an idea of Davies without a single moment of thought as to how uterly ridiculous the ideas needed to support it turn out to be.
The 459 should have been dealt with by Torchwood from the moment they established first contact back in the day because the whole thing is precisely their remit. Especially since thanks to Torchwood's entire operation having been reduced to a bunch of incompetents in Wales and a single strange man in Scotland the goverment could have simply dumped the blame for any manner of inconvenient operations in their laps to cover their arses