Another Brexit Bonus?

[FatticusInch]

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-at-risk-of-brain-drain-as-scientists-leave-britain-to-avoid-losing-eu-research-funding-12716479

/Scientists and engineers have
told Sky News the UK's position
as a world leader in research is at
risk from "significant brain drain"
amid doubts about what will
replace funding after
negotiations with the European
Union stalled.
The UK was negotiating a deal to
remain in the EU's £84billion
Horizon Europe funding
programme.
However, Brussels is refusing to
resume talks until other Brexit-
related disagreements such as
Northern Ireland are solved./

Will the influx of European bankers that the government recently forecast(on the premise of uncapped bonuses) make up for the lack of talent in other fields moving in the opposite direction?
Will they ever solve the Northern Ireland problem part of the ‘oven-ready’ deal?

[archibaldy]

// the majority of people in this country voted to leave the EU. //

What’s vote night got to do with it? That was 6 years ago now - this is about what’s happening today and in the future.

// it'll just have to Remain another one of them unsolved mysteries, innit //

It’s not a mystery, the issue, the impact and the options to fix are very well understood.

[FatticusInch]

Spicerack
//You like questions, MrF. Riddle dee diddle me this.//

That’s why it’s called Answerbank.
I stopped reading after faux lefties…

[Spicerack]

a) exactly
b) see a)

[Spicerack]

I never considered you to be faux, MrF.
If I hit a nerve, I can only apologise.

[New Judge]

//It isn’t their problem to solve, it’s ours…//

Really?

Who is it insisting on a border either on the island of Ireland or in the Irish Sea? It certainly isn't the UK. The UK has no interest in stopping or hindering the flow of goods (or people for that matter) between the UK and Ireland. Taking a pragmatic approach, the UK has realised that the goods entering the UK from Ireland need no supervision or inspection. Similarly, I suspect that, left to its own devices, Ireland would have no interest in one either.

There was no requirement for a hard border before both countries joined the EU. The sole reason for the requirement for one now is Ireland's continued membership of it, driven by the EU's fear that its Single Market will become contaminated with contraband goods from a "Third Country". There is no requirement to subject goods destined to remain in the UK to any inspections and the EU's insistence on a border in the Irish Sea interferes with free movement of goods within a sovereign state.

So, I would say it is very much not the UK's problem to solve. The UK does not want one; Ireland almost certainly does not want one. That just leaves one body that does, so let them solve it.

[New Judge]

//...the loss of billions of pounds in exports and our economy being around 5% down on what it would have been had we remained members of the EU.//

You keep on mentioning this figure, Hymie. Do you have any evidence to support it? I doubt that you have because few people have any idea of the economic effects of Brexit, since it is largely impossible to disentangle it from the effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine (which have each had different effects on individual countries). But I'd be interested to see some if you have any.