You don’t just convert and sleep though. You convert and prune. You slowly rework parts post-conversion to use more sensible approaches/libraries. It’s not a one-and-done operation, it’s an ongoing thing that they judge the cost of investing in now is less than the long term maintaining C Ubuntu.

Just had a quick google, you can still sign up for the very meals containing buckwheat right now.

Yeah the company is sunk. They’ll be sued and won’t have the cash and assets to cover the costs and payouts.

There’s some incredible double-think involved in politicians making promises they know will fail but doing it anyway because the good optics now minus the bad optics then is a net positive by just being in the media saying nice things.

Sunak knew he’d not stop the boats, but he said it anyway.

Boris Johnson knew he’d not build 40 new hospitals but he said it anyway.

Burnham knows he won’t get all rough sleepers off the streets in five months, but he said it anyway.

We’re perpetually governed by people who calculate that lying for good press now and being caught in that lie later is worth more than not lying in the first place.

More. We’re decades behind on reservoir requirements. There’s a whole bunch of planned reservoirs and one anywhere near completion.

We have shitload of unemployed people.

In part because we’ve made employing and training people prohibitively expensive/risky, and not working increasingly worthwhile.

We have showrooms full of tractors and diggers sitting doing nothing

Private companies have showrooms full of tractors and diggers. The UK would have to borrow more money (seen the yields lately?) or tax people more to buy them and employ people to actually use them.

(As an aside, he’s how to tell when ANY prime minister is going to fail a housing target: always. Why? The UK government doesn’t own a housebuilding company. You don’t own the asset, you don’t decide how it’s used without £££.)

We have supermarkets full of food and houses sitting empty.

Private companies have supermarkets full of food, and private owners have houses sitting empty. Both cost money, which as above, the UK government would have to borrow more of and/or raise taxes to pay for. To really labour the point, how to tell when ANY prime minister will fail on bringing down the cost of asylum: always. Why? The UK government doesn’t own enough dwellings to house them. You don’t own the asset, you don’t decide how it’s used without £££.

Long story short. Government broke as fuck. People who don’t understand economics will now tell me that government debt is not like household debt, and as long as they don’t look at rising bond yields, rising and increasingly unsustainable debt interest payments, and rising government debt as a percentage of GDP they can pretend their world view is accurate.

The weirdest thing is that we still won’t create more reservoirs after this because we just genuinely do not have the money. We’ve reached a point that the money just isn’t there to do things we need to do, but since the wheels haven’t come off the bus yet we can pretend it’s all fine.

Green, like Reform/Restore, have 50% batshit policies and 50% sensible. It pains me that we can’t have a political party that lives in the real world without batshit crazy attached.