Brexit and moving London forward

London voted to stay because there is 70% of Muslims here who wants to get more and more 'refugees' in.
Britain voted leave and London is part of Britain. Shall the Queen move out if London gains independence? We are on the verge on WWIII, don't make domestic war instead.

Is our hand so weak that we stoop to the grubby dealings blackmail? Judging by what May stated yesterday it is difficult to see it any other way.
Is this what we have become?

Hard Brexit means trade restrictions and tariffs. Which means businesses moving their business to the EU before it all happens.

It takes a long time to move a business. None of the business are going to wait for the negotiation.

Banks have to get banking licenses in one of the 27 remaining countries before they move and that takes time.

Manufacturing companies need to move an entire production line and train all their staff and it's not easy to move a production line. It'll take time for them to move.

Whatever type of business, it takes time for them to move it to a new country but they will move and take millions of jobs out of the UK economy.

The good news is at least in a few years you will be able to get a seat on the tube in middle rush hour in central London.

My prediction is that many businesses will move out of the UK and to main land Europe.

Politicians seam to be clueless.

There are discussions about the two year trade negotiations and this is just daft. I understand people want the trade talks to last two years of less, because article 50 takes two years. But there is no connection between article 50 and the trade talks.

The trade talks will take as long as they take and with such large economies it is likely to take 10 years or more.

When the two years of article 50 come to an end then the UK without any trade agreement will loose out and businesses will be wise to move to the mainland of the EU.

The first point to make is that it is not necessary to be in the EU to 'have access to the single market'. Enough has been said on this subject, so it is about time that those wanting to remain in the EU spun a different record. The key issues are, firstly, 'what can be done to make London as attractive as possible to business?'. Business rates must be lowered and bureaucracy must learn to live with a much reduced income. Perhaps Mayor Khan could show us the way by taking a substantial wage cut followed by abolishing the GLA. Secondly, he must restrict access to new immigrants to the jobs market to enable wages to rise for workers already here. Posts should only be filled by foreign workers if local workers are not available (and not just at lower wages but in terms of skills). Thirdly, Mayor Kahn should be embracing Brexit and banging the drum for financial services and the City of London in the capitals of Europe and the rest of the world. In other words 'get off his backside', stop dividing Londoners by moaning about the referendum result and be positive.
There are very few, if any, Remainers who genuinely believe in the 'ever closer union' leading to a European Superstate that the EU is in being to become, as no high profile member of the Remain side in the referendum debate were happy to discuss it, merely talking about trade and doom and gloom if we left, which proved to be rubbish. So if there's anyone out there who still wants Britain to once again give up its independence for being governed by an EU elite of bureaucrats that no-one can get rid of, you're wasting your time. The people won't have it.

The EU is the biggest economy in the world, even bigger then the US.

If London wants to keep doing well it needs to stay in that economy. But that's not happening, so it's going to loose out economically.

So looking forward, there will be less business, less jobs, more unemployment, more poverty.

Speaking about how the media twists information.:
Reading today's Times.
95% of new workers are foreign born.
Dear me, of course . They have been living here for a long time. You could be born in France and moved here. You are now 18/22 and start work. Headline should say a certain % of workers are migrants/immigrants.

Being out of the EU is terrible. Theresa May does not know how we can get a good trade without being in the EU. If Theresa May lets foreign people come to the UK for what her reasons are, the Government could not afford to pay the NHS for there treatment and India is bigger than UK so if Indians came here for Theresa's reasons we wouldn't have space for them. I am not an MP but I do talk sense. The whole world can't fit in the UK. Countries with war should form their own good armies to deal with it. There is not enough jobs for people in the UK so there is no reason for continuous immigration.

It seams like the vast majority of comments have ignored the questions at the top, which is not about the rights and the wrong of the vote or how many people voted, it's asking about looking at the future.

Well my vision of the future for London will be that the 27 countries remaining in the EU will want some of the business that goes on in London. So they will competitively negotiation a trade deal which will see many of the businesses moving to the other 27 EU countries.

Or they will keep vetoing a trade deal for the next decade. Either it's bad for London and the rest of the British economy.

Most of the banking sector will go. Every international headquarters will either be down sized or closed.

On the upside housing will become cheaper, because no one will be able to afford to live there because they won't have a job.

I did not born in this country but from what I can see if any country can pick up itself and fight back is the UK. No matter what this country come up against it always land back on it feet. and
when one door close there are many more doors to be open. I did not born here but from what I can see UK has the power to succeed in whatever the country puts their mind to. Working with other none EU countries will help to give the UK the back up it needs. Never stop fight to be the UK it once was and how it should be. Work in harmony with each other can works wonders. There are people here who will willing to help to build the UK up again, this country will never suffer any defeat.

The key issue is that we have a Prime Minister who has openly betrayed the country, barely 4 months ago she was campaigning to remain, and now she can't get us out fast enough! Boris Johnson, one of the most embarrassing governments minister ever known is to be representing our country to the rest of the world. The rest of Theresa Mays appointed ministers have proven to be about as much use as a chocolate teapot. They are the laughing stock of Europe. With these people in charge, who is London going to negotiate with that will take us seriously? Added to that we have an electorate, who despite all the facts showing that they have been lied to and conned, are now trying to gag the voices of those that are speaking out.
London needs Sadiq Khan to demonstrate effective leadership by boldly speaking about the lies and treachery of Theresa May and her colleagues, and demand a second referendum. He needs to remind everyone that the only countries who will do trade deals with London and the UK are those who want to sell their stuff to us, they don't need to buy anything from us because they're already buying what they want from other countries! Also, which country is going to do a deal with a country that has shown itself to be openly racist? He needs to let people know that the current government are living in cloud cuckoo land and they have no idea how they are going to make a success of Brexit, but they don't care because they are all sufficiently well off that it won't affect them. As Boris Johnson has shown, their desire for Brexit has nothing to do with the success of London and the rest of the country, they are interested purely in their own ambition, and if they are allowed to continue the damage will be irreversible. Already an incredible amount of damage has been done with most of the Financial Industry already putting plans in place to move their business to Dublin and Frankfurt. What will happen to Canary Wharf when they go? What will be the point of massive projects like Crossrail when they go? It can still be halted if we come to our senses and Sadiq Khan can do something about, rather than wandering around trying to be a man-pleaser. Yes, it means he has to be controversial, and he will upset a lot of people, but at the moment 48% of the population are upset anyway so he nothing to lose and a lot to gain. he could go down in history as the man who saved London and the rest of Britain from the worst catastrophe it has ever faced by stopping the country from leaving the wealthiest, most culturally diverse and progressive area on the planet, and preventing it becoming one of the most shunned countries in existence.

The fact is that the UK, as a whole, voted to leave the EU. London is not independent of the UK but a part. The most important thing is that we, as a nation state, respect the wishes of the whole and deliver. All else is mere chatter from the disgruntled.