No UAV spectrum?!

What a horrendously shortsighted view... the one thing the UK is good at is slightly odd things like UAVs, so it's a good thing for the economy. It'll open up the possibilities for unmanned measurements of, say, the atmosphere rather than using sensor-laden light aircraft or relatively uncontrolled balloons- helping improve our scientists and helping the environment. Incredibly light UAVs would also be a good way of (relatively) cheaply testing new green aircraft fuels- further helping the environment.

And it opens up the possibility of a whole new realm of rules and regulations. New Labour love that stuff! Even better (for them) it'll mean that the Police can use UAV tech to keep an eye on the populace and track down at least some of the billions of paedophiles that lurk around every school and corner in the land.

Taking another New Labour-friendly theme, consider what'd happen if no UAV spectrum is allowed. People will eventually get to use UAVs in the UK's airspace- it's inevitable. Without their own spectrum, however, there's the risk that their communications will be interfered with by other users of the spectrum they end up using- potentially leading to crashes. So for the love of Health and Safety (and the Children and other Vulnerable People who could be killed if UAVs started dropping like flies), they've got to allocate UAV spectrum.