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Horizon Europe to tackle 5 huge ideas: "After a lengthy consultation period, five mission areas were chosen: adaptation to climate change; cancer; healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters; climate-neutral and smart cities; and soil health and food." wired.co.uk/article/marian…
This massive EU research and collaboration programme is the successor to Horizon 2020, and has a proposed budget of 100 billion euro.
ec.europa.eu/info/horizon-e…
The UK has benefitted from Horizon 2020 to the tune of over 10,000 separate funded projects, and over 5 billion euro in funding.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Even if the UK government were to replicate the funding, it can't replicate the white hot competitive environment, with over 100,000 competing proposals from across the EU jostling for funding and attention. Nor can it replicate the cross-border collaborations it has encouraged.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Heading into the debates, let's remind ourselves how much damage the Tories have wrought since 2010. A decade of destruction, to put it mildly! #ITVdebate #Leadersdebate

1. Wages still not back to pre-recession levels after accounting for inflation.
ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
2. The Tories have cut over 20,000 police in England and Wales (even if they hire 20,000 more, it will still leave us about 1,000 short of the figure before they came to power.)
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3. Over the same period, knife crime has soared.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Many Leavers seem puzzled why Remainers keep fighting. "You lost, get over it" reduces Brexit to a football match. Perhaps greater understanding might bring greater empathy...

THIS is what we're fighting for:
- Longest unbroken period of peace between European nations in history
- Free trade deals with over 70 countries
- Just in time manufacturing that supports millions of jobs, thanks to no customs checks or complex procedures
- Scientific and academic collaboration
- Support for the Good Friday Agreement & active promotion of the Irish peace process
- Shared space exploration
- Participation in the Galileo GPS satellite cluster
- Driving licenses valid all over the EU
- Car insurance valid all over the EU
- Pet passports that make travel with pets easy
- Simplified fixed compensation scheme for flight delays & cancellations
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Most depressing part of Brexit is being told "you lost get over it". It reduces the issue to the level of a 3-year-old football match whose result Remainers dispute.

THIS is what we're fighting to preserve:
- Longest unbroken period of peace between European nations in history
- Free trade deals with over 70 countries
- Just in time manufacturing that supports millions of jobs, thanks to no customs checks or complex procedures
- Scientific and academic collaboration
- Support for the Good Friday Agreement & active promotion of the Irish peace process
- Shared space exploration
- Participation in the Galileo GPS satellite cluster
- Driving licenses valid all over the EU
- Car insurance valid all over the EU
- Pet passports that make travel with pets easy
- Simplified fixed compensation scheme for flight delays & cancellations
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