How was it squandered? Pre Brexit the UK was EU #1 for SW startups. Obviously the US is #1 globally in SW, but UK has been strong for a long time in many vertic

How was it squandered? Pre Brexit the UK was EU #1 for SW startups. Obviously the US is #1 globally in SW, but UK has been strong for a long time in many verticals: gaming, fintech, mech eng, petroleum eng. I started coding in Basic on a Pet in 79, and learned Z80 on a ZX81. The 8 bit experience was great for our SW sector, and far more fruitful than Tony Benn's misguided nationalisation of English Electric Leo Marconi to create a national champion in the shape of ICL. That was 50 years ago, and those govt backed ICL VME systems are still out there, a legacy dead weight on the orgs that bought into them.