In article
-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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel