Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50765773

by late • 7 years ago

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xchaotic• 7 years ago

This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ? It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in the EU

ggsp• 7 years ago

What do you reckon the impact on the international and national startup ecosystems will be?

Luc2• 7 years ago

Startups are cheap for a government to support. I expect the Conservative government will make the UK even more attractive as a location to start a business in an attempt to counter Brexit's negative effects.

vanniv• 7 years ago

It seems these days like every time someone sees an election that doesn't go their way, they assume that the voters on the other side were clearly all imbeciles voting for their own destruction.

That's an incredibly naive and narcissistic view of the world.

scarmig3• 7 years ago

I'm tired of this radical subjectivism anytime people vote for something stupid. Sometimes people cut off their nose to spite their face. Reading convoluted reasoning about how it was really actually rational from their perspective because reasons and values never adds anything, either.

happymellon4• 7 years ago

What would be the pros to Brexit?

kolleykibber• 7 years ago

But surely this can happen? It's clear social media marketing teams were used to go after the uneducated with slurs and memes in order to benefit the rich.

nicky03• 7 years ago

Voting Conservartive in this election was very much an informed choice for many. The alternative was voting in a marxist.

Luc2• 7 years ago

The real alternative was a coalition government, surely?

rcarmo• 7 years ago

Well, FWIW, there are a _lot_ of startups setting up offices in Portugal these days. Mostly as quasi-nearshoring, but many as a serious endeavor (CloudFlare is an example of the latter).

SlowRobotAhead• 7 years ago

The tech cynicism that’s growing in me is just waiting to see if it was fakenews on Twitter, or Russian ads on Facebook, or Macedonian teens with clickbait, Nazis or something entirely new to blame these elections on. It seems there is always a “reason” to lose elections now.

I don’t know when everything had to become a scandal and “well, it seems less people agree with me than it took to elect the side I preferred” became an unacceptable thought.

Edit: even a thought about that thought is unacceptable to some here :)

pintxo• 7 years ago

I second the „meddling“ in elections part. If we accept the notion that it’s easily possible to manipulate the people into voting for whomever then the problem is not the meddling but the possibility of people being manipulated.

As this means anyone could do this. I vote for a Marshall Plan for general education.

byefruit• 7 years ago

As a Brit this is utterly heartbreaking. The Conservatives tried every trick in the book in the last parliament and fought a dirty campaign that has set an awful precedent for future politics in the UK.

That remain-backing and second-ref parties actually got the majority of votes makes it even worse. First past the post is not fit for a modern democracy.

golemotron2• 7 years ago

It’s amazing to me that tech people can see that monoculture makes systems fragile in security yet long for it in geopolitics. Brexit should happen. Catalan independence should have too.

JamesLefrere• 7 years ago

The EU is not like the USA. We can have regional independence/self-governance and international cooperation, prosperity and peace, without needing a controlling national structure.

Britain is and always has been a European island. We’ll be back in the EU in a generation or less.

golemotron2• 7 years ago

The EU was a historical anomaly. A reaction to WW1 and WW2.

Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament

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