OMG - What they tell you and what happens are often two differnet things. If we believed everything we'd been told we'd be going up and down on hoverpacks and Sinclair C5's.
There is an election to come, 5 years of cuts whatever government we elect and things like that will be first on the chopping block. No private financier is going to invest in that, it's like Turkeys voting for Christmas. Don't get too carried away....