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[brexitplus] 07/2/2019 11:35

Love this

“East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton said: “Typical constituent email today. Well done Donald: ‘My wife and I voted Remain. After comments by Tusk and others today we are now of the opinion that a no-deal is the only answer.’”;”

Obviously intelligent people who became imbeciles in the time it took to send an email.

[brexitplus] 07/2/2019 11:02

Here’s what we knew already, but not through BBC, Sky, etc of course

“HERE’S some Brexit news that would make Kay Burley put her foot through the Autocue machine and send Jacob Rees-Mogg the bill.

London still massively overshadows the rest of Europe’s cities in technology, as gauged by its ability to attract investment.

Well, that news would enrage the Vague News crowd if it ever got broadcast. Which of course it won’t, because it puts our economy in a good light. Which cannot be done, for political reasons, so the optimistic intelligence must be placed on the proverbial spike for rejected storylines.

To paraphrase John West: it’s the stories that Sky News reject that make Brexit the best.

London has maintained its position as the top destination in Europe for technology investment, according to a report by London & Partners and PitchBook.

Last year the capital was so far ahead of the rest of Europe that it attracted nearly double the amount of investment gained by its closest rival, Berlin. Double the amount of its nearest Euro rival!

In 2018, technology companies in London attracted £1.8billion in venture capital funding, 72 per cent of the total £2.5billion raised by UK tech businesses.

Many Remainiacs have devoted considerable energy to undermining credibility in London’s tech centre in an effort to fulfil their own painful prophecies. Some amateur politicians within London’s tech sector have even tried to talk down the appeal of the capital in a number of confidence-crashing hexing forecasts.

Despite Brexit, investment in artificial intelligence (AI) rose 47 per cent across the UK as a whole, to £736million. Meanwhile £1.2billion went into the flourishing financial technology (FinTech) sector. Big data, blockchain and cryptocurrencies also saw all-time high investment numbers.

The global interconnection and data centre company Equinix has been instrumental in developing the UK’s digital infrastructure. In November of last year, the US-based firm announced the launch of a £90million high performance data centre, LD7, at its Slough campus.

This project forms part of a total new investment in the UK’s digital infrastructure of £295million – an investment that was described by Theresa May as ‘a vote of confidence in London’s future as the world’s premier financial hub’.

Late last year, Equinix launched the second volume of its Global Interconnection Index. The market study tracks interconnection bandwidth – the private exchange of data between companies, away from the public internet. Its authors said that ‘despite Brexit’, London remains the most important data market in Europe.

Thanks to the intellectual rigour of Imperial College, UCL and Oxbridge, London is a global contender in everything technical from artificial intelligence to atomic clocks.

A key driver of London’s data growth is the close proximity of FinTech companies to the world’s top financial district, while health tech companies operate close to pharmaceutical and life-science firms. Every Equinix data centre is like a digital twin of each major industrial sector with the number-crunching machines of every all the movers and shakers in the industry being placed in the same rows in the same data halls and so closely integrated that the machines are practically telepathic.

There is bit-level degree of technical harmonisation that cannot be reproduced easily – no matter how many tax breaks you squeeze out of Jean-Claude Druncker and Guy Hofmeister when they’ve had too many Cognacs.”

[brexitplus] 07/2/2019 10:52

I love the cartoon re Tusk I’ve put in my profile. Pity we can’t post pictures here.

[gettingrichslow] 06/2/2019 22:02

Steeplejack, it sounds like you're in full 'panic mode'. The world isn't going to end on March 29th. There will probably be a last minute agreement. If there isnt, then we go under WTO rules. Much of the world trade like this. It's not 'No Deal'. It's not crashing out. There is no cliff involved. These are phrases to frighten those who are easily frightened, millennials and Lib Dems mainly.

[brexitplus] 06/2/2019 21:18

Thanks for your vote of confidence Getting. It’s not difficult really. Porky is so leaden-footed, so predictable. He’s like a stuck record.

Although he says he’s filtered people he can’t resist, as when he told Yertiz that he had just filtered him although he had already filtered him. SFS I think it’s called - Selective Filtering Syndrome. It’s a form of OCD.

Anyway, I can say what I like as I’m “filtered.R21; I’m becoming a bit fed up with calling him Porky so I might try Fatso!! I see he has stopped calling me StillBornPlus, although I didn’t mind. Probably forgot he was doing it - old age. Actually found it rather funny. Not for other people of course who have experienced it.

[minerve] 06/2/2019 20:52

Flat Earth society.

[minerve] 06/2/2019 20:51

steeplejack

Don't waste your time on 20th century chimps.

[gettingrichslow] 06/2/2019 20:28

B+, he hasn't filtered you, it's just that he can't compete with you anymore. You've been running rings round him. He doesn't like it when someone gets the upper hand on him so he runs away! Poor sod.

[gettingrichslow] 06/2/2019 20:19

Steeplejack, you are a curious character in that you come across as intelligent yet post some complete nonsense on here. Multiple examples in your earlier post. "The interpretation of Brexit has become more and more extreme" - really? Read the leaflet again that Remainer Cameron and Remainer Osborne sent every household using our taxes - very clear it would involve leaving Single Market and Customs Union.
"48% voted Remain" - so what? It was a binary choice, and Leave won. If Remain had won do you think we'd have partially left??!
"Unless people running businesses are completely divorced from their workforces" - of course a LOT of the workforce are completely divorced from the business leaders. Bosses have done very well out of low cost eastern European labour, and the working class Brits haven't.
I could list other frailties in your arguments but there are some examples. I'm afraid some people just aren't connected to what the majority are thinking, and some are. You are in the former category and therefore you will continue to be shocked by things that are happening in elections here and abroad, whereas some of us aren't surprised at all.

[brexitplus] 06/2/2019 18:23

Porky, you are a liar. You said you had filtered me.

Did you hear about the Irish turkey? It was looking forward to Christmas.

[steeplejack] 06/2/2019 18:07

Well,as long as we're still invited to the Eurovision Song Contest,there's hope.Sneakingly,I think something will be agreed.Its salient that the Irish Republic has rejected the possibility of a hard border even if there is No Deal.Had to laugh when a German MEP stated that a border would have to be imposed.You can imagine a U-boat surfacing at night off the coast of Ireland and a dinghy full of EU officials with VAT books wading ashore and making their way to the Newry border. Mrs Merkel arrives at the Greek border for a well earned holiday.The border guard asks her..."occupation?".....Angie replies "Nein, not on this occasion".

[brexitplus] 06/2/2019 17:52

Meanwhile, as usual with the EU it is brinksmanship. They will wait until the last moment. They need our money and the 27 members get more worried by the day. We must keep our nerve until 29th March or go to WTO.

[brexitplus] 06/2/2019 17:12

And quite right too.

[steeplejack] 06/2/2019 16:59

I think it’s highly unlikely the 52% agree with no deal,unless all those people running businesses are in some bizarre way completely divorced in thinking from their own workforces.Perhaps some are but not all.

None of us and I mean none of us,really had an idea of what Brexit would really look like.Why should we,we’d been part of the club for near 50 years.It was a nebulous idea and one which gave way to some ridiculously fanciful interpretations,spending extra money on the NHS,playing the old EU golf greens but no longer paying the club fees,bloody rubbish.Slowly but surely,the interpretation of Brexit has become more and more extreme but that was not the Brexit that was piped by the Leave Campaign In 2016.Of course,you can say that Brexit,taken to Nth degree necessarily involved NO DEAL but you’re conning yourself if you believe a majority would have voted for such an eventuality back in June 2016.

That being the case,I can only see very real trouble and discord in this country ahead.

[minerve] 06/2/2019 16:54

Good and sensible post steeplejack. I agree with your sentiments entirely.

[meanwhile] 06/2/2019 16:46

The many brexitarians who have posted here today have a clear duty now to stop buying products & produce from the EU as far as possible.

Some will say :-
Oh, but I love stuffed olives, where will I get these from? I've no idea but have you tried a stuffed Californian prune?

Oh, I won't be able to get those little vine-ripened tomatoes in winter. Bad luck. Have an extra british free range egg instead.

[brexitplus] 06/2/2019 16:43

steeplejack, happily Tusk is helping us towards a No Deal.

Re the 48%, thats democracy. Sorry chum, but I think you'll find a large percentage of THE WINNING 52% agree with the ERG.