UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted

Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by jahnu on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:47AM (#42767693)

They most certainly did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_aust...

What they didn't do, unlike PIGS, was also tough reforms which are paying back now

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/flying-piigs-nations-s...

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by HPsquared on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:00AM (#42769396)

The Conservative party used austerity rhetoric as a way to win votes, but they did not cut spending other than reversion to the mean after the high spending around 2008.

See here for international comparison of government spending as % of GDP (the second figure showing trends over time), UK is not an outlier:

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/GBR/CZE/...

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