Unpicking The Brexit Blunder - Well Done Rishi, You're A Star

[Canary42]

Rishi Sunak has cleared up another of Boris Johnson’s Brexit messes by agreeing a deal with Brussels for the UK to rejoin the EU’s £85bn Horizon science research programme.

After months of uncertainty, the government said a “bespoke” new agreement has been signed allowing British researchers to apply for grants and take part in Horizon projects.

The move comes as a huge relief to scientists, amid warnings that UK researchers have been missing out on collaboration with colleagues in Europe in much of the two years since Brexit.

[New Judge]

Which could have been achieved three years ago had both sides (note, both sides) been a little less intransigent.

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1848666.html

[Ken4155]

TTT, i've put up a thread for your attention - FAO 3Ts

[drmorgans]

But the UK won't be part of the Euratom fusion programme, which some in the UK have said it is a lost opportunity.

https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-are-relieved-by-the-uk-eu-agreement-to-return-to-horizon-but-the-deal-has-one-notable-exception-12956599

[New Judge]

//But the UK won't be part of the Euratom fusion programme...//

Presumably that's because the UK government believes it is not in the country's best interests to take part.

[Old_Geezer]

Hardly a BJ Brexit mess. Clearly more of a case of a childish EU holding on to their toys and not letting anyone else play, in a fit of pique at losing control of the UK.

[drmorgans]

And yet now we have negotiated a deal that seems to suit the UK and the EU.

[Togo]

Dead right it isn't Judge. The EUSSR would love to get its hands on the Rolls Royce intellectual property concerning the Small Module Reactors. World leading technology worth £billions and prospects of transforming energy production and delivery without massive infrastructure pollution or disruption. They would love to steal that.

[Old_Geezer]

https://youtu.be/4KxS6ZJnRMc?si=lPu08AOXPy6aJIBL

So.... what will happen when a decent government rips up that ludicrous Windor nonsense ?

[ToraToraTora]

drmorgans: "But the UK won't be part of the Euratom fusion programme" - that's because UK leads the world in that area. Why would we want to hand it all over to the EUSSR?

[THECORBYLOON]

Is the UK not working with the EU as part of the JET programme?