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Old July 18th 16, 08:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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-septembe
r.org, (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/educatio...ding-hit-by-br
exit-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.


And it's not just money. Much of the benefit to research flows from the
free
movement of people with the ideas. Brexiters are too clueless to realise
the
damage they have already done with worse to come.


Look,

I have already told you:

People voted for Brexit on the basis of how it affects THEIR lives/world.

You have absolutely no right at all to expect them to vote on the basis of
how it affects YOURS, unless you are undertaking to equally share all the
benefits that accrue by that decision.

And the reality is that the people who benefit by remaining in the EU had
absolutely no intention of doing that, that wanted the downtrodden to vote
to remain so that that could keep all the extra jam it created for
themselves. - Greedy *******s!

tim