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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: 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.

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  • (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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