One can certainly expect no improvement to the UK’s general condition under the current dhimmi Labour government. It has no functionaries to devote to frivolous matters like spaceport and launch licensing when all hands are needed to round up and jail anyone with the impertinence to object to the epidemic rape of young English girls by immigrant Muslim welfare clients or who publicly disrespect any member of His Majesty’s government.

You noted that a decade of conservative government was not enough time to fix all the problems that Labour had left them. Apparently, it takes a decade or more for the high-paying space jobs to get started, considering that the bureaucrats sabotage the Tories in order to support the Labour Party that the bureaucrats belong to. The U.K.’s government is just as infiltrated with leftists as is the U.S. government. No wonder both countries are having such a hard time.

You noted that the bureaucrats in the U.K. are corrupt and take bribes, so bribes seem to be the only solution to the red tape, but the launch companies are not yet experienced enough to play: the corrupt game of greasing palms to grease the wheels and get stuff done. There really is not liberty in the U.K., which would explain why you fled to another country.

And now we begin to see the results of corruption and tyranny. Because of the higher cost of doing business, job creators have a much harder time creating the good-paying jobs, so workers, like your best friend, cannot get good-paying jobs. Instead, he works hard at a job at which his productivity is not worth much money. You think he could do better, that his productivity could be worth much more, but Labour is not interested in him being more productive. You said that they have other priorities. They do not care about your best friend, and they cannot even entice you back to live and work in the U.K. The Tories probably could, except that you are far too leftist to ever work in a conservative country.

It would have been so much better, had the conservatives been allowed to continue encouraging the high-paying high-tech work. Instead, those jobs are lower priority than the bribery, corruption, and tyranny of the leftist Labour Party.

I.am less optimistic.

We are not out of the woods yet. We may have found a path through the woods, and we hope it is the right path,but we are far from the clearing.

Or sticking with your analogy, we have dodged a bullet, but they are still shooting.

“Patience has its limits”
– Buddha
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There is certainly no public mandate dogging the MPs. But as of late, what the public wants does not appear too important there anyway.

Unless I am very much mistaken, it would have been fatal holding your breath under the how many years of conservative government also. Not enough friends in the industry to make it worthwhile to grease the wheels and get stuff done.

It is misdirection to blame the current government for red tape holding up launch licenses. Labour inherited policy from the Tories, and hopefully spaceports have not been very high on their list of priorities given the rest of the mess they are having to deal with, things left by the previous government which actually affect my friends and family back in the UK.

Never mind spaceports.. we all here want to see success in the industry, but I would rather my best friend doesn’t have to work a 40 hour week and have to scrape the pennies together to eat and pay the bills.

Due to over a decade of conservative government. If you live in the UK, you are reaping the rewards of conservative rule. It’s a broken society that is going to take time to fix, and we have to remember that hopefully the guys in charge have their eyes on different balls than regulations in the space industry.