"G&M" wrote in message
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"IMM" wrote in message
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Get real. 30 years ago the UK was
nowhere and going downhill fast, now it
is a thriving economy with only the US,
China and Korea growing faster.

Amazing what Nu labour can do.

Despite the best efforts of having
the UK's first communist chancellor of
the exchequer.

You jest of course.

It means smart work, not hard work.

It means both. The UK doesn't have a
monopoly on bright people.

It does. The modern world came from the
UK. Globalisation was invented by
the UK 100s of years ago. Most modern
inventions came from the UK. Look
at work history and the progress line is
slight then it shoots up exponentially, when
the industrial revolution came about, which
came from and was centred in the UK
(mainly the north and midlands of England and
some of Scotland.

Don't be silly. The UK did lead the
world at one point. But so did the
Greeks, Egyptians and now the Yanks.
Chinese are next.

You have little comprehension. Here ity is again:
"Look at work history and the progress line is slight then it shoots up
exponentially, when the industrial revolution came about, which came from
and was centred in the UK (mainly the north and midlands of England and some
of Scotland."

The Brits advanced the world greater and faster than any other in history
and a mile.

In fact more and more hi-tech jobs
are going to India and Russia precisely because
many of our engineers don't want to work
hard any more.

Balls. It is cheaper in those countries. Computer programming in COBOL
is
not high tech.

I arrange for a huge amount of work
to be contracted out to these countries.
I know there is a lot of commercial work
(COBOL descendents) sent to India
but also a lot of very high tech work.
Basically if it involves a lot of
deep mathematical work Russia is best
whereas if you want a more systems
oriented view then you use India. But you
still use the UK for the conceptual thinking
where we are best,

Exactly. The Russians and Indians are not break any grounds at all, just
doing work that can be easily done here, cheaper.

and the US for the actual hardware
where they are the best.