Re: Two possibilities
About the conclusion near the end of the article:
"The Government now needs to extend the UK's influence within the global technology landscape, to ensure that future technologies are developed and used in ways that align with our values and, crucially, uphold the rights and freedoms of people in the UK and across the world," the report concludes.
That is extremely difficult or even impossible to do after Brexit. The EU's values were the UK's values before it voted in the referendum, this is not true any more after Brexit. In any area were the UK wants to influence foreign countries, it is now weaker.
The data is 7 years old, and that's all that's necessary to see that tale of victimhood about the UK being ignored by other EU countries sold to us at the time of the referendum by Vote Leave et all was wrong. Any data about our position in the EU after 2016 is irrelevant anyway, we'd burnt our bridges by that point.
There are three ways out of this hole, either be happy with our post-Brexit lot and not even try to influence other countries, spend a lot of time and money trying to influence similar-sized and smaller countries on the other side of the world and have committees write reports such as this saying we're not getting far, or try and work out a way back from Brexit. Everything leads back to Brexit, whether we like to admit it or not.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
