The Day Bob Showaddiwaddi got it right...

[sasguru]

Since Bob has had a hand in this, I expect some major element to have been overlooked. Therefore:

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Wrong - they've done it successfully for many years now.
Good luck to them they're giving it a bloody good go.
Meanwhile we decline into a nation of indebted bull-tulipters.

[sasguru]

Quite.

It does raise the question of aid to India though.

Its just so they remember us when the boot is on the other foot.
Plus we did change the region from one of the richest in the world to one of the poorest when we left

"An estimate by Angus Maddison, formerly of Groningen University, reveals that India's share of the world income went from 24.4% in 1700, comparable to Europe's share of 23.3%, to a low of 3.8% in 1952"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_India

[darmstadt]

British satellites so you can buy more Kleenex

[Moscow Mule]

Wrong - they've done it successfully for many years now.
Good luck to them they're giving it a bloody good go.
Meanwhile we decline into a nation of indebted bull-tulipters.

Indian satellite failures is not a googlewhack...

[Churchill]

There's loads of British satellites.

Just no British launch vehicles.

Hmmm, Skynet, anyone?