Whilst the rest of the developed world are planning long-term, considered responses aimed at turning around their economic fortunes by investing wisely in wealth generation and ideas we're blithely throwing money into the wind with nary a care where it lands.
Whilst the US for example has earmarked over US$600M for laboratory instrumentation purchases all we're planning - long term - in the realm of science funding is to build more  classrooms for secondary school science classes.

Whilst the rest of the world marches on in the full understanding that long-term economic health and wealth generation comes from nurturing innovation and enterprise level R&D initiatives all I'm seeing are adverts from travel agents exhorting us "To have a holiday on Kevin" as their way of extracting the $900 per head available from March 9
Why.........................?????????????