Britain's mistake is that it has made itself into a follower nation not a leader nation.
You can trace the beginnings of this back to Anthony Wedgwood Benn, heir to the Wedgwood fortune and Socialist owner of a Rolls Royce, who claimed that Britain's leading launch capabilities should be scrapped "because missiles can also be used to launch nuclear warheads".
Year after year Britain killed its industries through irrational fearmongering and Socialism, to the point that now they cannot launch satellites, have no signifigant internet companies other than OnlyFans (can you believe it?) and can only bitterly complain about American companies "harming their yoots innit".
Britain might have lost the internet race several times over, but it doesnt have to be the end for it.
If it is true that technology is shaping warfare, they should already know that it is shaping everything else, including money.
Bitcoin is out in the wild and cannot be withdrawn because it is not controlled by a company.
Knowing this, and that it is inevitable that things like bitcoin are set to change eveything, and given the experience of losing the race to be the preferred incorporation jurisdiction for globe spanning Internet Unicorns, the obvious move is to create business conditions in the UK that no entrepreneur in their right mind could possibly resist.
IF they did this, they could attract every bitcoin business on earth, and become the defacto centre of global payments rails to the exclusion of every other country, even the USA, that seems hell bent on destroying itself and disobeying its most fundamental laws, as you can see with the extralegal, unconstitutional restriction of text based processors (AI).
Unfortunately, the modern british mind cannot comprehend any of this, as exemplified by Ed Miliband, Marxist, and his insane Kool-Aid guzzling "Net Zero" delusion, being implemented at the expense of national defense.
There is no way that man will accept the truth about the fake "Climate Emergency", that it is a total lie and utter rubbish. He will, for certain, rail against Bitcoin as "waseful of energy" and "corrosive of our Carbon Targets".
Then you have Reeves, another Marxist, an economic illiterate, who will never accept the Austrian School basis of Bitcoin, which is provably correct. There is no hope at all with these people and the legions of others who have absolute control over every pot banger.
Sovereignty is not "about code". Code is not something that exists by itself, out of the ether. It is written by man, and at the level government contracting requires, private companies that specialise in this practice.
Everyone in britain knows about the woeful record the UK Government has when it comes to software, so this is nothing new
ukcampaign4change.com/2022/0… now that people in Tom's class understand at his level that it is "Code not Cannons", where are the calls for Microsoft Windows to be forbidden fom all UK Government systems?
The UK cannot call itself sovereign with its absolute reliance on foreign companies for software ("code").
The Chinese government woke up to this a long time ago, and has abolished Windows and now Android from its shores, understanding that Google and Microsoft are security threats, not in that those companies can engineer access to Chinese State secretes, but that it becomes impossible to build secure home grown software chains if the operating systems are not Chinese created.
Rather than whine about it, threaten people and steal US executive laptops
share.google/aimode/rCsTllo1… Britain should start an emergency replacement of all their IT infrastructure, with the absolute requirement that all tools are sourced from UK companies only, just like the Chinese have done.
To make this happen, you have to have an environment that makes doing this work worth while. That means exempting these companies from all regulations and taxation. When this is done, overnight an entire industry would be spawned to make this happen, and if the blanked exception extends to all software companies, the effects I reference above will happen; Britain will become the number one place on earth to run a software company.
The second and third order effects would greatly increase britain's prosperity and security, and you will find that unicorns start appearing out of seemingly nothing. There is such a thing as a Unicorn Seed, and this is exactly what it looks like.
If Britain doesn't change course to free market capitalism, with a complete abandonment of Socialism, then all of this is going to get worse. As America forges on into the future, Britain will be left further and further downstream, cut off from super AI models, Bitcoin mediation, Gaming, Operating Systems, Privacy tools and everything that has been invented and that is coming.
They've been warned again and again about this, but it has all fallen on deaf ears. All of it was predictable and predicted; Marxism is lethal poison, and now the body is very sick, and the patients are complaining.
It's a sad, sad story!