Originally Posted by
craic
Who came up with the idea that investors should use their "nous" to get the country far ahead? Investors invest for profit - to get themselves or their company or family ahead. If they were stupid enough to Be like Queen Victoria and " think of England" (when she was having sex) when they were investing, then they would probably just have to wait for the next Labour led government to come along and stuff it up for them. The same applies to the local IT industry within govt. departments etc. The ones who can make it have done so and away working for real money elsewhere. My son, a keen electronics hobbyist was told that he couldn't do electronics at Napier Boys High school because at the time it was restricted. He left from Form IV and is now at the top of his field in London. The Labour/Green concept of a society where those who have should labour for those who have not to the point where everyone 'has not' doesn't work - the Russians tried it for almost a century - go there and have a look at the reality.