Optimist wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 08:27:24 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote:
Optimist wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:07:48 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote:
Optimist wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:20:54 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:49:33 on
Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Optimist remarked:
Then the shortfall should be paid by the UK treasury, and deducted from
the amount paid to Brussels.
It's not so simple. Countries are not rewarded with research participation
based on their EU contributions. They are included because their
universities are appropriate participants. We have the best EU universities
and so were included disproportionately; now, knowing we will soon be gone,
our universities are not considered for inclusion in new EU-funded
projects, as their work may not be funded after 2018.
Same answer - fund our OWN universities from the amount we pay in EU contributions.
But the whole £350m(sic) has already been promised to the NHS, or was it
Cornwall, or perhaps Wales.
Our universities are world-class, so it would be foolish of the EU not to
co-operate with us as they
do with other non-EU countries. If they decide not to, well, we can
co-operate with other countries
instead, their loss not ours.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/16/research-funding-hit-by-brexit-vote
The fact is the hundreds of millions of pounds supposedly from the EU are
provided by UK taxpayers
in the first place.
This is one of the areas where we got back more than we put in. So Brexit
means we'll have to pay more for a lower quality of cooperation in future.
So, if they axe a grant, UK can pay it directly instead and deduct the amount
from what is given to Brussels.
Typical Brexiter lie.
UK's total receipts from EU is £10billion a year less than our
contributions. No amount of lying by
Euro-fanatics can change that fact.
The pro EU people didn't lie about that figure. Nobody denied that,
overall, the UK makes a net contribution, as one would expect of a richer
member. It was the Brexiteers who lied, claiming that the contribution was
£350m a week, or £18bn a year:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7105546.html