As one of the founders of a new IT start-up in London I can certainly assure everyone that London again has a lot that's positive for creating new companies here.<p>But this thriving climate of innovation, creativity and new companies is mostly created by those who are part of that group. It's the people in these IT companies, the large group of creative agencies long established in London and those around these groups, those who create things and less by politics or underlying infrastructure. This in itself can be seen as good, but also as endangered when you look at longer term agendas and recent actions by UK politics.<p>Our biggest concerns currently are actually the stands of UK politics on ACTA, PIPA, their implementations and European counterparts. Instead of "cruising with the flow" the UK should - like with the financial industry - take up this opportunity and safeguard this newly growing and fast driving IT industry and foster its potential by laws that allow for innovation.<p>One should not forget those who create new innovative solutions - in particular with disruptive solutions - will always be considered as enemies or someone to "lobby against" by those established players who have stopped innovating (or innovating themselves).<p>Innovation always also means overstepping lines and creating new things by throwing out established assumptions. Over time those become the hurdles the next generations of innovators have to overcome.<p>We are looking forward to see some of the promises made by UK politicians with regards to London as a tech-hub actually being enacted and this group of young companies protected against malevolent attempts to stifle that growth by established influential(mostly Non-UK)companies that seemingly still continue to believe that their business models from the last century that are sometimes closer to extortion than doing actual business are sustainable by just "paying the right people".<p>We actually have to come back to a climate and understanding in politics that values the creation of new things similar to the times when the UK was the foremost industrialised nation - and this is quite a while ago.<p>In completely unrelated news ;-) did you know that you have to wait up to six weeks in London to get a new telephone line (re)-connected thanks to the years of driving up "Shareholder value" with BT (and less spending on engineering or reducing engineering staff by thousands).