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There was never a actual will to develop a competitor to Galileo/GPS. This a political tactic for Brexit.

This is still for the show. This will die out at some point.

unless your expectation is that the EU is equally dumb than thats not a valid bargain tactic. they should probably poke the bear with russia and see if US will come to help. In any case UK will have to go to the US hat in hand with free trade agreements and UK thought EU was bad wait till they start playing with the US.

I'm not saying that it was a tactic to bargain with the EU. This was a domestic political tactic to sell Brexit and the UK's bright future outside of the EU to the British public.

If they make the investment, it is more than just show.

But I have my doubts about the end result of this endeavor as well.

It's a proposed investment in a bankrupt company, and apparently not the most suited one. We'll see...

This is essentially a PR-only government run by a disgraced racist former journalist who has no extended attention span, no useful real-life skills, and nothing but contempt for STEM culture - but also believes that he's intelligent enough to talk his way out of any situation.

Expecting anything other than wasted money and failure is an exercise in unrealistic optimism.

Ten years ago if you'd predicted that trump would be in the White House and Johnson would be in No 10, you would have been laughed at...

Nobody's laughing now because the reality isn't funny.

Governing and campaigning are very different things, though.

What is the difference in effort between ‘selling’ a $15k website or application versus writing, maintaining and deploying said application?

Why bother with delivering the application when you can just keep the $15k with no consequences?

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