UK announcing research into x: comments will probably be negative and about how it’s a boondoggle.
UK company doing exciting stuff like fusion or quantum: comments will probably be negative and about how it’s a boondoggle.
It’s tiring.
Edit:
That being said it does lead to hilarious moments where I’ll read the Guardian and see a headline like “The NHS won’t make it to Christmas (for real this time) but it doesn’t matter because we’ll all be dead by then because of Brexit” and then I’ll see the Express in my corner shop with a headline like “Brexit HERO Boris makes Ursula von der Leyen CRY when he announced new BRITISH MOON BASE”
Actually what I'm describing is casualuk which is even wore for its banality some how.
If i needed a teenager verbally doom scroll me i'd talk to my extended family.
- Governemtn forecast 4% lower GDP than without Brexit
- UK car industry significant decline in output since 2015 (around 30% IIRC)
- People who immigrated here for work (and have the right to stay) are choosing to leave
- Low investment compared to comparable regions / countries
- Turmoil around NI
- Banking migrating to Europe and New York in particular
- Trade deals not materialising
It’s not what “project fear” warned us of, but it’s certainly not good. Many of these effects are playing out across years so haven’t really hit home for people yet.
Especially on Hacker News. I tend to avoid UK-based posts on here because the content is fairly predictable: the UK is going to shit and Brexit is to blame, repeated ad nauseam in the absence of any evidence that it's true. If I wanted thoughtless UK doom mongering, I'd read the Guardian or the NYT.