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Old 15-11-2016, 22:17
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^ All we have there is yet more selective denial of actuality. You would rather trash this country's economy and have it flushed away down the Gary Glitter than come to a pragmatic comprise deal like such as the ones that Iceland and Norway have. A UK deal like they have would pretty much guarantee that all of Google's investment promises would be fully enacted.
All you have from me is pointing out that Google said one thing, you completely twisted it into something else altogether.

Anyway the boss of Google is on BBC news right now, very happy with everything.
And at the end of the report, Kamal Ahmed, the BBC economics editor, said on 'Brexit Britain': "Google has answered loud and clear - Britain is a place to do business."
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Old 15-11-2016, 22:26
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Your comment clearly shows that you (and many others) do not understand what a Hard Brexit means. Or what an end to free movmement entails.

A hard Brexit will not harm Googles investment as nowhere does it say that we will stop immigration of skilled workers that we want to come here. We just don't want any Tom, Dick or Harry (should that be Jean, Fritz or Luigi) coming here with nothing to offer just because they can.
That's true, but on the other hand, it's a tad naive to think that the removal of the freedom of European workers to work in the UK will not present a barrier for British companies.
My company has to do a lot of recruiting from places like India and China, and what should be a simple process of a couple of weeks often turns into months of waiting for the Home Office to get their arse into gear with Tier 2 visas. It involves a lot of effort on the company's part, plus having to pay £1,100+ for each employee and each family member, plus sundry other cost (including some health surcharge or something). If the Home Office start having to do this for all the European employees, either they're going to need a he'll of a lot more people, or its just going to make recruitment impractical.
I sometimes think people overlook these potential problems.
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Old 15-11-2016, 23:24
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Nobody is going to put any barriers in place to skilled workers.

Nobody wants that, nobody is proposing that.
But they already exist, that was the complaint from some leave voters who wanted non EU nationals to have the same travel/working rights as EU nationals.
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Old 15-11-2016, 23:45
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I wonder what tax arrangements were offered.
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Old 16-11-2016, 00:13
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<sigh> More old news masquerading as Brexit success:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/google...s-cross-2016-6
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Old 16-11-2016, 00:20
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<sigh> More old news masquerading as Brexit success:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/google...s-cross-2016-6
It's not a Brexit success, nor is it a Brexit failure.

Perhaps you'd be happier if Google changed their plans?
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Old 16-11-2016, 10:12
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Since the referendum result off the top of my head I can remember major investments coming in the UK economy involving GlaxoSmithKlin (Pharmaceuticals) , Nissan (Car Manufacturing) , London City and Heathrow Airports (Air Transport), Google, Apple & ARM (Tech) Hinckley Point (Nuclear Energy) Several Offshore Wind Projects (Renewable Energy) .
Now some people will say that many of these were planned prior to the referendum, and that is true, but we were also threatened that if an out vote was returned all this investment would dry up, and it hasn't.
I am a reassured remain voter.
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Old 16-11-2016, 12:36
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Since the referendum result off the top of my head I can remember major investments coming in the UK economy involving GlaxoSmithKlin (Pharmaceuticals) , Nissan (Car Manufacturing) , London City and Heathrow Airports (Air Transport), Google, Apple & ARM (Tech) Hinckley Point (Nuclear Energy) Several Offshore Wind Projects (Renewable Energy) .
Now some people will say that many of these were planned prior to the referendum, and that is true, but we were also threatened that if an out vote was returned all this investment would dry up, and it hasn't.
I am a reassured remain voter.
I live you voted remain and I find threads like this and others I post, showing a positive side to Brexit do help with reassuring myself.

If you listened to the vocal side of remain, with all the hyperbole that is given, you would think the economy and country would be destroyed by now.
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Old 16-11-2016, 13:49
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But they already exist, that was the complaint from some leave voters who wanted non EU nationals to have the same travel/working rights as EU nationals.
Yes, they were forced to put those restrictions in place on non-EU nationals because they could not control EU immigration.

The point is, if they can stop the influx of unskilled EU migrants then they can relax the rules on Skilled workers from everywhere.

But the points based system is not good enough if you just end up with degree qualified bus drivers. There has to be a job opening for those skills.
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Old 16-11-2016, 15:11
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Since the referendum result off the top of my head I can remember major investments coming in the UK economy involving GlaxoSmithKlin (Pharmaceuticals) , Nissan (Car Manufacturing) , London City and Heathrow Airports (Air Transport), Google, Apple & ARM (Tech) Hinckley Point (Nuclear Energy) Several Offshore Wind Projects (Renewable Energy) .
Now some people will say that many of these were planned prior to the referendum, and that is true, but we were also threatened that if an out vote was returned all this investment would dry up, and it hasn't.
I am a reassured remain voter.
You are a misinformed remain voter. You were threatened with SOME of the investment drying up, not all of it.
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Old 16-11-2016, 15:12
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I live you voted remain and I find threads like this and others I post, showing a positive side to Brexit do help with reassuring myself.

If you listened to the vocal side of remain, with all the hyperbole that is given, you would think the economy and country would be destroyed by now.
That's only if you listened to Brexit lies about Remain. Many people do for some reason.
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Old 16-11-2016, 16:03
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3000 jobs, but will the company pay tax? Or has the decision been made after "consultation" with the government?
Google does pay all taxes due. It's not their fault that the loopholes are in place. You obviously know nothing about fiduciary duty either. A company is bound to its shareholders to pay all legal taxes and not a penny more.
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Old 10-12-2016, 22:09
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They're even saying Brexit is not a problem.

Another nail in the coffin of how bad Brexit will be

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37988095
Except the £1bn investment mentioned was announced back in 2013....
On a long, thin sliver of land.... will soon rise out of the ground....Google's spanking new £1bn London headquarters...
They say size doesn't matter but in 2013....

....it will house 93,000sq m of office space within its 11 storeys – enough for 4,500 busy Googlers, twice the number currently employed...
Fast track to 2016 post Leave vote...

The new 650,000 sq-ft (60,386sq m) headquarters....
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