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Brexit's Tech Brain Drain

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Re: Brexit's Tech Brain Drain

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Post by moomin »

TorKlingberg wrote: post #8

I know at least one programmer who is leaving the UK because of Brexit. Personally I am staying put and assuming things will work out ok.

I'm staying for now. Don't want to unnecessarily disrupt my family. But if leaving is what's best for them, I'll be out of the door and won't look back.

I know a few who have moved on too. Not many, but time will tell.

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Post by ben_w »

paulajohnson wrote: post #2

The drain in brains goes mainly west in planes.

I considered Silicon Valley until I realised how different UK and US politics are. Extreme right wing in the UK is a bit to the left of Obama.

If the EU does collapse, I'll consider Canada.

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Post by mdekkers »

djmobley wrote: post #6

Foolish and premature. The UK government has not expressed any intention to restrict skilled immigration in industries facing skills shortages. It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it's fair to say the British population) are opposed to.

It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it's fair to say the British population) are opposed to.

This may be the case. Brexit is the dumbest solution to that particular problem though.

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Post by frostburg »

djmobley wrote: post #6

Foolish and premature. The UK government has not expressed any intention to restrict skilled immigration in industries facing skills shortages. It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it's fair to say the British population) are opposed to.

This is anecdotal, but my friends in the UK (typically working on their PhD or medical doctors from the EU) have already encountered open hostility and have little intention to stay to be exploited for their skills without any guarantee.

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Post by iNerdier »

djmobley wrote: post #6

Foolish and premature. The UK government has not expressed any intention to restrict skilled immigration in industries facing skills shortages. It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it's fair to say the British population) are opposed to.

I think you're missing the point here. These are people who are already here talking about leaving because of a climate of anti-european and more broadly, anti-foreign attitudes in the UK at the moment. I've no doubt the current government will make it less onerous for people like them to come, the difference now is, would they want to?

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Post by lostboys67 »

djmobley wrote: post #6

Foolish and premature. The UK government has not expressed any intention to restrict skilled immigration in industries facing skills shortages. It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it's fair to say the British population) are opposed to.

Apart from the farming industry that loves its poor eastern Europeans to pick crops and is lobbying to keep them - Quite what the average brexit voter thinks about this in east Anglia is another matter

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Post by jacquesm »

blowski wrote: post #4

A few anecdotes doesn't count as evidence. I voted for Remain, and hope very much that the Brexit process collapses and we end up staying in the EU. But I also don't want to spend the next 2 years being drip-fed poor quality articles about how we're going to hell in a handbasket.

I think that the chances of the Brexit process collapsing just collapsed themselves. The only way to do that was to not trigger Article 50.
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