Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!

[Stacky]

The U.K. plan to attract top global prize winning scientists to move to Britain has received no applications

 

[Handy Run]

The U.K. plan to attract top global prize winning scientists to move to Britain has received no applications

Britain has had enough of experts

 

[Stacky]

Britain has had enough of experts

UK visa scheme for prize-winning scientists receives no applications​

Exclusive: A fast-track visa route for Nobel prize laureates and other award-winners in science, engineering, the humanities and medicine has failed to attract any applicants

HUMANS 22 November 2021
By Jason Arunn Murugesu

Kevin Foy/Alamy
Not a single scientist has applied to a UK government visa scheme for Nobel prize laureates and other award winners since its launch six months ago, New Scientist can reveal. The scheme has come under criticism from scientists and has been described as “a joke”.
In May, the government launched a fast-track visa route for award-winners in the fields of science, engineering, the humanities and medicine who want to work in the UK. This prestigious prize route makes it easier for some academics to apply for a Global Talent visa – it requires only one application, with no need to meet conditions such as a grant from the UK Research and Innovation funding body or a job offer at a UK organisation.
The number of prizes that qualify academics for this route currently stands at over 70, and includes the Turing Award, the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Awards, and various gongs awarded by professional or membership bodies both in the UK and elsewhere.

“Winners of these awards have reached the pinnacle of their career and they have so much to offer the UK,” said home secretary Priti Patel when the prestigious prize scheme launched in May. “This is exactly what our new point-based immigration system was designed for – attracting the best and brightest based on the skills and talent they have, not where they’ve come from.”
But a freedom of information request by New Scientist has revealed that in the six months since the scheme was launched, no one working in science, engineering, the humanities or medicine has actually applied for a visa through this route.
“Chances that a single Nobel or Turing laureate would move to the UK to work are zero for the next decade or so,” says Andre Geim at the University of Manchester, UK. Geim won a Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on graphene. “The scheme itself is a joke – it cannot be discussed seriously,” he says. “The government thinks if you pump up UK science with a verbal diarrhea of optimism – it can somehow become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

 

[TarboxBob]

All Fur Coat and no Knickers.

 

[Stacky]

Brexiteer Jim Ratcliffe of INEOS chemicals having to shut down his factory in Teeside because his customer BASF has found an alternative supplier inside the EU to make plastic car parts.

 

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Britain has had enough of experts

They are 'the boffins' mate not experts

 

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The Express aint happy ​

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Gleeful Irish TD taunts Brexit Britain over ferry routes bypassing UK: 'More to come!'​

BREXIT Britain has been brutally taunted by an Irish politician who posted a visual of ferry routes bypassing the UK.​

In a post on his social media, Neale Richmond, Teachta Dala for Dublin Rathdown, posted a picture showing ferry routes heading for Ireland's capital and bypassing the UK. Accompanying the tweet to his followers, he wrote: "Powerful visual from Ireland's development office of the ever-growing state of direct shipping to our largest market, continental Europe, post-Brexit. More to come..." Since the UK left the EU, Ireland has become an outspoken critic of how Britain has handled negotiations and its threat to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol.​

 

[Meridian]

The Express aint happy ​

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Gleeful Irish TD taunts Brexit Britain over ferry routes bypassing UK: 'More to come!'​

BREXIT Britain has been brutally taunted by an Irish politician who posted a visual of ferry routes bypassing the UK.​

In a post on his social media, Neale Richmond, Teachta Dala for Dublin Rathdown, posted a picture showing ferry routes heading for Ireland's capital and bypassing the UK. Accompanying the tweet to his followers, he wrote: "Powerful visual from Ireland's development office of the ever-growing state of direct shipping to our largest market, continental Europe, post-Brexit. More to come..." Since the UK left the EU, Ireland has become an outspoken critic of how Britain has handled negotiations and its threat to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol.​

I am just waiting on the tossers to take a publish a photo of one of Irish Ferries ships operating between Dover and Calais at the moment

 

[leesider]

Wow that is some brutal taunt alright, it goes way beyond saying the Irish will starve after brexit!

 

[Stacky]

Remarkable exchange at House of Commons trade committee just now.

Q: How do benefits of trade deal with New Zealand compare to the economic harms of Brexit (e.g. 4% reduction in GDP, per OBR forecast)?

A: ``I haven't done those statistics,'' Britain's trade secretary says.