UK surges ahead of France and Germany as Europe’s ‘innovation powerhouse’

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1. Turning the armed forces into binmen is kind of innovation , I guess.

2. Trashing a previously industrious country into an over-regulated, over taxed London-centric hellhole is definitely innovative.

3. Will any successful companies that stem from this investment stay in the UK long term? And will they pay taxes on their eventual profits?

   Or will they just fuck off as soon as they are profitable?

4. The UK is performing well considering the circumstances ..finally the dust is startling to settle a bit. And we can just focus on making “POSITIVE” changes!

5. We have a great opportunity to capitalise on these with America acting as it is. They’re a direct competitor to us in several of our best industries and outcompete us on virtually everything as you’d expect with their scale. But now with trump ruining the US maybe we can take advantage in any way we can for capital flight.

6. Probably talking about all the leeway they’re giving rich people to “build up our economy” by making things worse for everyone else because apparently their name “labour” doesn’t mean shit to them. 

7. The UK is great at innovation and has been for centuries. Where we’ve repeatedly fallen down over the last 70 years is development of this innovation due to a lack of adequate and ongoing financial support.

8. > HSBC Innovation Banking, a subsidiary of Europe’s biggest lender, hailed the UK’s enterprise value in its latest innovation report.

   HSBC? The British investment and banking service, you mean?

9. That’s great news coming alongside the growth figures last week. We should be doing everything possible to entice investors here while America implodes.

10. Just earlier today I was getting dunked on in this sub for saying I wish this country focused on our huge dick-swinging levels of innovative tech as we do low value outdated stuff like fishing or steel blast furnaces.

11. Headline could also be read as ‘Rich Brits More Gullible than French or Germans”

    Not to be blunt, but what bloody good is raising venture capital if it doesn’t lead to genuine material improvement in this country?

    WeWork and the bloody Juicero were venture capital – doesn’t mean they were worth a damn!

12. Beating France and Germany at innovation should be a given.

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