The Raspberry Pi becomes more of a joke every day. Today they offer some rather limp excuses for why they can’t manufacture it in the UK.

TL;DR: it boils down to (a) UK manufacturers wanted to be paid for their work (b) the Government wants us to pay tax (c) all this eats into our margin.

Margin?! They are a charity so why does their margin matter? As a charity they get buckets of tax relief anyway.

I maintain that there is no need to teach computer programming in schools. Use of the programming features found in the leading commercial product, Microsoft Excel, is more widely applicable for 90% of the jobs that the brighter kids will end up doing.

They want to encourage these kids to go into technology and want tax relief and Government funding for computer programming lessons. But when they get a chance to support British industry they ignore it because it’s cheaper to use foreign labour at below UK minimum wage in appalling working conditions. When they get a chance to pay some tax to support the funding they so passionately desire, they whine about it and pay taxes to foreign governments instead.

I’m enjoying this technical disaster movie. Stay tuned ….