Scotland. Northern Ireland. Wales. Did the lower operational costs and anti-Brexit sentiment of these regions not occur to him or did journalistic bias force the author to write 'UK' rather than 'London'?
Disinformation was rampant in England too. British tabloids have a long history of blaming the EU for the weirdest made-up stuff, as well as for unpopular laws from the UK government, while the government loves to take credit for popular measures from the EU.
Contrary to the disinformation campaign, the British people chose what they thought is best for them. I'm just glad that democracy is strong and respected there.
Well, yes and no. It's certainly better than some places, but it's clearly very vulnerable to disinformation campaigns, and the government's unwillingness to put this to a vote is causing chaos. It appears a small group has used the situation to take control of the future of the country and steer it into a direction nobody wants, and is now denying the people a vote on the mess they're making.
The people already voted. There was a clear understanding that that vote was the one and only. There wouldn't be a vote at every step. Britain is a representative democracy and the representatives deal with the details.
There was not a clear understanding what the vote was about. There contradictory promises being made about what a Brexit would mean. It would mean saving tons of money that wasn't there, staying in the common market for goods and services, yet somehow leaving the common market for labour, except maybe not when it benefitted Brits. The whole campaign was a bunch of lies, and those lies are what informed the people's vote.
There was absolutely nothing clear about what a Leave vote would actually mean. It makes every sense in the world to hold a new, more honest vote once that has become clear. It's a betrayal of democracy to plunge the country into such an ill-advised and irreversible direction based on a single, poorly defined and poorly informed vote.
He named it. The pound dropped eating his margins. So he moved to a better place with a stronger currency and culture. He will not be the only one, almost everyone will be fleeing soon.
He works internationally, the drop in pound means he would have been earning more as the pound dropped. Surely he's going to have to put his prices up, which could have been his solution anyway?
I'm sure the real reasons are political rather than financial.
I don't see how changing country makes any difference? He'll have to put up the price for his existing UK customers to cover the costs of his overseas staff
> I'm sure the real reasons are political rather than financial.
He did say he's originally from Yugoslavia. Since the Brexit vote, the UK has become a lot more hostile to immigrants. That can certainly be a good reason to leave too.
The Guardian has always had lazy reporting and lax editing. The articles on the Snowden leaks were written based on a single high school dropout's fanciful interpretation of the documents, without any input from domain experts.
I like how they repeat "mindless tribalism" three times in the first few sentences without qualifying such an extreme statement. Looks like shameless propaganda to me.
From the article: “It is amazing to me that Britain by ‘wanting more control’ in 2016 decided to become more like Serbia in 1988 than Switzerland in 2018,” he said.
So, essentially came to the UK to be prosperous. At the first hint of potential harder times he leaves, rather than try harder to contribute. Brilliant...
> they have been publishing unbalanced, poorly researched/uncorroborated articles.
So exactly like The Guardian of the Snowden days, which got PRISM ridiculously wrong by not interviewing anybody who had a clue. Worse, they never issued a correction, instead doubling down on the original story.
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[ 0.17 ms ] story [ 108 ms ] threadA good few places in Wales are struggling under the current government austerity, and blaming the EU was an easy scapegoat to sell to the misinformed.
There was absolutely nothing clear about what a Leave vote would actually mean. It makes every sense in the world to hold a new, more honest vote once that has become clear. It's a betrayal of democracy to plunge the country into such an ill-advised and irreversible direction based on a single, poorly defined and poorly informed vote.
Compare the Brexit heartlands of Essex and Kent to London.
Amazing that this was even published mind, there's so little here.
I'm sure the real reasons are political rather than financial.
He’d be earning less — as the article mentions — if earning in pounds and paying out (to subcontractors) in other currencies.
He did say he's originally from Yugoslavia. Since the Brexit vote, the UK has become a lot more hostile to immigrants. That can certainly be a good reason to leave too.
And we see the rise of the far right, and the increase in violence that always brings, and it's easy to see that as a rise in mindless tribalism.
It doesn't need qualifying because it's fucking obvious.
I don't mind their leftist optics, my problem with them is that they have been publishing unbalanced, poorly researched/uncorroborated articles.
Long way from the Guardian of the Snowden days.
So exactly like The Guardian of the Snowden days, which got PRISM ridiculously wrong by not interviewing anybody who had a clue. Worse, they never issued a correction, instead doubling down on the original story.