Generally short-sighted politics gets in the way in the UK based on my own opinion. Support/budgets/etc get withdrawn at precisely the wrong moment (and usuall

Generally short-sighted politics gets in the way in the UK based on my own opinion. Support/budgets/etc get withdrawn at precisely the wrong moment (and usually for some petty point-scoring or if ministers are running scared from the media/opposition) Its happening right now too with electric cars and solar electricity - solar has generally been seen as a success with a lot of installations taking us to 3rd place in Europe for solar megawatts despite there being essentially no sun (1), and EV cars are starting to become something actually viable for most people's lives. The government has just announced that the UK is now legally bound to be carbon neutral by 2050... yet the government chose also to revoke funding and support for both solar and EVs and so subsequently update has plummeted (2, 3) right at this vital point. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy_in_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy_in_the_European_U... 2 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/08/solar-installation-in-british-homes-falls-by-three-quarters-after-subsidy-cuts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/08/solar-in... 3 - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/new-car-sales-fall-april-plug-hybrids-hardest-hit https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/new-car-sales-fa...