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Brexit: UK Tech Leaders Write Open Letter to PM May

posted by on Wednesday December 07 2016, @12:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-blame-them-for-trying dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

London's standing as Europe's leading destination for tech start-ups is at risk if the British government does not clarify how it plans to keep the best technical talent, entrepreneurs and investors have warned.

In an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, nine leading UK-based technology entrepreneurs and investors, including Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, pressed the government to act to ensure a continued flow of skilled migrants after Britain leaves the European Union. It also called on the government to address EU market access and other issues.

From the letter, posted at TechCrunch:

UK startups require a commitment from the government that the investment drive of the last few years will continue in order for UK startups to maintain their lead in many areas. It is important for all the UK's business sectors that the tech sector continues to flourish, since all business now runs on and is affected by technology.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:03PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:03PM (#438308)

    Rumor has it UK IT and software dev wages are really low, so management fretting about the supply demand curves showing a slightly lower supply is not a exactly a problem.

    There's a bit of a propaganda thing that brexit means the UK is going to build a berlin wall and put up minefields and shoot anyone coming thru the chunnel, and this story feeds into it a little bit, why there's no skilled people in the UK other than migrants, etc. The opposite extreme of the completely open and uncontrolled border between Mexico and the USA is equally unlikely. They're likely to be better off.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:34PM (#438318)

    Some first world countries will take advantage [qz.com] of Trump, Brexit, and other anti-immigrant crackdowns. Capitalism is global, and labor is mobile.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:22PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:22PM (#438425) Journal

      Yeah, yo momma wishes she lived up here with all us great Canadians.

      But noooo! NO! NOOOO! We don't want Hillary here, no way, no how!
      Canadians don't like no grups with tramp stamps.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:31PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:31PM (#438430)

        I don't play hockey anyway. But you might getting a bunch of eastern Europeans, Indians and Chinese with random STEM university degrees.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by theluggage on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:30PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:30PM (#438345)

    There's a bit of a propaganda thing that brexit means the UK is going to build a berlin wall and put up minefields and shoot anyone coming thru the chunnel

    Yes, it was called the Leave campaign [dailymail.co.uk] (apologies for linking to the Daily Wail, but I thought a pro-leave source reporting criticism of Farage would be more convincing than The Guardian).

    Meanwhile, no matter who you vote for, the government always gets in, so I have absolute faith that whatever solution our wonderful leaders come up with will succeed in throwing up new barriers to immigrants with much needed skills without effectively tackling (either real or hypothetical) unwanted immigration.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday December 08 2016, @10:26AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday December 08 2016, @10:26AM (#438683) Journal
      The sad thing is that a lot of the leave voters had legitimate complaints, in particular with regard to the amount of infrastructure investment in different parts of the country and the undue influence by certain interest groups. Unfortunately, the 'solution' that they've picked is to give more power to the people responsible for that inequality and require rushed treaty negotiations that will inevitably be pushed by those same special interest groups.
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