I can't imagine why anyone would bother starting a new company in UK.
Brexit is looming and it is an almost certainty that a no-deal will happen. (UK wants it and EU won't be able to get unanimous agreement from all member states' and their parliaments).
And in a no-deal Brexit companies will have to ensure EU data sovereignty which means duplicating infrastructure in the EU anyway. Not to mention all of the complexity around tariffs and digital/internet taxes. Being in the UK you get all of the negatives of the EU without any of the benefits.
Re EU data sovereignty can't the London devs just ssh to a server in Europe rather than somewhere else? Server location these days seems mostly just a matter of clicking some button when you set the thing up.
UK will get a deal from Trump and will compete with Silicon Valley. Not to mention it can expand within the old colonies(i.e India, Africa, HK) maybe even get a great deal from China. EU is obsolete just like NATO!
PS: I don't really believe this stuff but this seems to be the plan.
The UK is negotiating from a weak position since it's about to lose a lot in a no-deal brexit. The UK politicians at the same time need to show some kind of post-brexit win. That's pretty much a guaranteed way to get a horrible deal with someone that can be just barely spun to make enough voters not notice how bad it is (ie: like brexit itself).
edit: Although China is plausible, as in China spending 10 years draining the UK of any worth it can before discarding the husk that remains.
I don't really think that reasoning makes much sense...
>UK will get a deal from Trump and will compete with Silicon Valley
Why would the US government offer a deal that brings up a major city to compete with one of its own?
>Not to mention it can expand within the old colonies
Most of those were given up in the last 10 or so years or so, and most of their "citizens" have no real allegiance to the crown. And anyway, the UK is already better off than most of those countries already, so they'd have to pull the new county past wherever the UK already is.
>maybe even get a great deal from China
Maybe I'll get a great deal from china if I renounce my US citizenship but there's no reason to believe that's the case (plus, china will want to benefit from the deal somehow...)
Brexit is looming and it is an almost certainty that a no-deal will happen. (UK wants it and EU won't be able to get unanimous agreement from all member states' and their parliaments).
And in a no-deal Brexit companies will have to ensure EU data sovereignty which means duplicating infrastructure in the EU anyway. Not to mention all of the complexity around tariffs and digital/internet taxes. Being in the UK you get all of the negatives of the EU without any of the benefits.