How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The only silicone valley we’re likely to ever have will be near The Only Way Is Essex studios.

 

[west didsblue]

She absolutely dismantles him, the interesting bit at the end is that Hunt believes he can turn the U.K. into the next Silicon Valley. The software development sector struggles to recruit developers and the skills gap is huge and growing ever bigger. It’s got that bad they were looking at aligning software development up there with medical professions such as doctors and nurses when speeding up visa applications for sectors experiencing shortages. If this ever does reach fruition, the numbers on immigration will need to go up. Another pipe dream that won’t happen as the perpetrators of the down fall of this country since 2010 will either be on the opposition benches or not an mp at all by the time the next election is done.

Exactly. It's like Hunt thinks that we're the only country that has had the bright idea to become a high tech powerhouse. It might come as a surprise to him that half the countries in the world want to do the same thing and we have chosen to make ourselves a less attractive place for the necessary inward investment to achieve that ambition.

 

[Gabriel]

I doubt Hunt actually believes the silicone valley nonsense. It’s just a throw away line for the gullible.

He has been casting that line for weeks, as has Sunak. The gullible have been swallowing such since 2015, hook, line, and sinker, in terms familiar to Angling Times readers.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Beth Rigby making Jeremy Hunt increasingly flustered as she keeps raising the issue of Brexit. Hunt repeatedly refuses to accept the OBR’s figures on Brexit, but she fails to ask what his own specific figures are that allow him to reject those of the OBR.

worrying that we have a Chancellor who thinks Brexit is completely harmless to our economy and is a member of a Cabinet that parrots the silicon valley shite whilst issuing statements targeting foreign students as a problem...... how do you possibly grow that sector by pursuing policies that threaten places where research takes place and the brightest minds are cultivated.

 

[Vic]

Exactly. It's like Hunt thinks that we're the only country that has had the bright idea to become a high tech powerhouse. It might come as a surprise to him that half the countries in the world want to do the same thing and we have chosen to make ourselves a less attractive place for the necessary inward investment to achieve that ambition.

And for the European citizens with the needed skill sets

 

[Vic]

Just a reminder that it was Russians in Manchester who developed graphene.

 

[west didsblue]

worrying that we have a Chancellor who thinks Brexit is completely harmless to our economy and is a member of a Cabinet that parrots the silicon valley shite whilst issuing statements targeting foreign students as a problem...... how do you possibly grow that sector by pursuing policies that threaten places where research takes place and the brightest minds are cultivated.

Doubt he really thinks that. It's just all they've got. They know they're fucked for the next election and see this as the least worst strategy to retain at least the hardcore Brexiters onside for the next election, of which there won't be enough to keep them in power, but may be enough to prevent total wipe out.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

The only silicone valleys you find in the UK are boob jobs on Only Fans

 

[Didsbury Dave]

worrying that we have a Chancellor who thinks Brexit is completely harmless to our economy and is a member of a Cabinet that parrots the silicon valley shite whilst issuing statements targeting foreign students as a problem...... how do you possibly grow that sector by pursuing policies that threaten places where research takes place and the brightest minds are cultivated.

He doesn't think it's harmless. He knows full well how harmful it is - they all do. That's why now, in every interview like this where Brexit is brought up, the opening line from ALL of them is always "Look, this country voted to leave the EU". It's a tacit admission that we just have to live with a nightmare scenario.

 

[East Level 2]

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Unfortunately, I suspect the UK will be facing a few more years of political immaturity before its politicians even think of growing up.

This cannot be liked enough.