"has always been poor", really?
... in the home of the industrial revolution? To say it has never been good is going a little too far. To quote Goring talking about the Mosquito but more generally British engineering, "It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
