Re: regarding asteroid defence as not a national priority
People, it's a good thing the Brits aren't interested.
Looking at the British Government's performance on Covid and Brexit etc, I would be deeply concerned if they had responsibility for anything at all in a project to defend the Earth from an asteroid impact.
You'd only want to give them stuff that you wanted royally arsed up. Although I suspect they would even manage to arse that up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
