What is perhaps surprising is that there has been no debate here (and I haven't seen much anywhere else in the IET, although I haven't looked particularly) regarding the best way to manage the fall out from the referendum we did have - irrespective of how any of us voted.
As an example, many of us are involved in EU standards, both developing them and ensuring compliance to them, and what is going to happen there is a very interesting subject with big implications for UK engineering. Hopefully the IET is involved in giving advice to the government on this, but if so it would be quite interesting to know what they are saying.
Unfortunately we are now in the position where the "B" word can't be mentioned in any context in the UK for risk of fights breaking out...it seems to have become the biggest taboo we have. So we are in the utterly bonkers position of going through a seismic change without feeling we can have positive and helpful discussions, as Mercutio might have said on seeing both sides of the debate: "a plague o' both your houses"! Or as a primary school teacher might say: "I don't care who started it, I need you both to work together to clear this up."
What is perhaps surprising is that there has been no debate here (and I haven't seen much anywhere else in the IET, although I haven't looked particularly) regarding the best way to manage the fall out from the referendum we did have - irrespective of how any of us voted.
As an example, many of us are involved in EU standards, both developing them and ensuring compliance to them, and what is going to happen there is a very interesting subject with big implications for UK engineering. Hopefully the IET is involved in giving advice to the government on this, but if so it would be quite interesting to know what they are saying.
Unfortunately we are now in the position where the "B" word can't be mentioned in any context in the UK for risk of fights breaking out...it seems to have become the biggest taboo we have. So we are in the utterly bonkers position of going through a seismic change without feeling we can have positive and helpful discussions, as Mercutio might have said on seeing both sides of the debate: "a plague o' both your houses"! Or as a primary school teacher might say: "I don't care who started it, I need you both to work together to clear this up."
