Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
by alecco on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:55AM
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Only the Conservatives? You think Blair, Brown, and now Starmer did great things for the country? Give me a break. The whole political class is rotten. And the upcoming "Reform UK" is a joke, to say the least.
Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
by defrost on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:02AM
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> You think Blair, Brown, and now Starmer did great things for the country?
No, but apparently you think that I think that. Perhaps you might like to work through that again ...
Leaving the state of the UK as a whole to one side, the NHS was actively kicked like a dog prior to Blair who did at least stop kicking it and attempt to reverse the decline with some, albeit limited, success.
Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
by alecco on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:44AM
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The comment I replied to only places blame on Conservatives. There is a name for this: "lying by omission".
Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
by pjc50 on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:22AM
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The NHS and the Empire don't really overlap. It was founded right at the end of the war, shortly before the UK started having to divest from its colonies, and of course it was never a thing in any of the non-UK colonies!
I often think the NHS was only founded as a result of the war, as an extension of the military and civilian healthcare needs for injury care. German bombers didn't respect the British class system.
Thatcher and the more recent 14 years of UK Conservative government seemed to have kicked it bloody and senseless like Alex and his droogs from the Korova Milkbar.