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Mike Galsworthy's avatar

I sincerely hope Art16 isn’t triggered. I know Commission/ European politicians have been expecting it and are prepped — and Horizon Europe association status would most likely go under the bus at this stage. That in turn would be disastrous for UK science… not in the straight ££ economics terms, but rather in talent attraction, UK reputation, UK’s now traditional leadership/coordination of multinational projects, and UK unis diversifying their physical presences to put footholds around Europe (latter not bad per se - but diversification of collab activity away from UK soil is).

I also can’t see any win for UK govt triggering such wreckage with EU & US and science. It just looks hostile for the sake of it… and weirdly puritanical about ECJ rather than actual business concerns.

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Derek Trotter's avatar

Arguing over custom checks in Northern Irish ports when there are thousands of third world illegals invading other British ports every. Single. Day 🤦‍♂️

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