Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit

Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by danudey on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:51PM (#11973780)

But on the other hand, as a Canadian whose government was in the process of negotiating a trade agreement with the EU, now we'll have to draw up two separate trade agreements, neither of which is as unbalanced in their favour as the original would have been.

That is to say, the EU without the UK has less leverage than before, and the UK without the EU has less leverage than before, so now neither the EU nor the UK has nearly as much bargaining power as they had combined.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by chongli on Friday June 24, 2016 @08:26PM (#11974543)

Which is great for us in Canada! Another benefit is that negotiating with the UK individually rather than the EU as a whole should make it easier to get a deal done quickly.

Negotiating with the EU is a disaster. Too many special interests to deal with all at once! As the old saying goes: too many chefs spoil the broth.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by florianbailey on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:09PM (#11974190)

But the EU is still the largest or second largest market in the world (depending on the source).

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by pookeh on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:52PM (#11974969)

And probably the slowest. If you can capture 10 faster markets then the slowest gets pressure to get going. But if you only have to deal with the slowest then it becomes even slower. Welcome to capitalism.

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