Thread by @PandaScottish

[thread] on this utter bullshit

Ask anyone who shovels this shite messaging line from @10DowningStreet @BorisJohnson

When did we lose our place?

Why did we lose it?

What are they going to do to make us regain it?

https://twitter.com/bernardjenkin/status/1406911577715007491

So here's world innovation rankings

Our neighbours AHEAD of the UK

Sweden (2), Germany (4), Switzerland (5) Finland (7), Denmark (8), france (8), Austria (12), Ireland (13), Belgium (14), Norway (15), Netherlands (16)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"37 UK-headquartered companies made the Innovation 1000 list this year, spending on average 2.9% of revenue on R&D, up slightly from 2.3% the year before, but considerably lower than the global average of 4.2%."

pwc.co.uk/press-room/pre…

"Total R&D expenditure in the UK in 2017 represented 1.69% of GDP, up from 1.67% in 2016, but remaining below the (EU-28) provisional estimate of 2.07%.

The UK ranked 11th of all EU countries’ R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP in 2017."

ons.gov.uk/economy/govern…

"the EU biggest research initiative is the Graphene Flagship, which commands a budget of around €1 billion (£800 million). The initiative claims graphene applications like Earthdas' will generate "economic growth, jobs & opportunities"

independent.co.uk/life-style/gad…

it is not just the "strangling"

but the "quietly strangling"

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

“We cannot even expect a neutral outcome anymore,” he says. “The question now is simply: to what extent is this going to be a disaster for science in the U.K.”

independent.co.uk/news/science/b…

"batters" science job market

newscientist.com/article/mg2373…

"Almost two-thirds of managers who recruit scientists and engineers in the UK believe Brexit will affect their ability to attract top talent from within the European Union. Many also think the referendum result will make it more difficult to retain existing staff."

“Even if people are allowed to stay, they quite rightly feel a sense of uneasiness at the idea they are not wanted & don’t want to be in a place that’s closing its doors to the rest of the world.”

"The risk to Britain’s science-based industry is more immediate “because of the potential for the severing of research links between UK and European institutions and the loss of EU bodies such as the London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA)."

ft.com/content/248d46…

"Half of Britain’s research collaborations involve EU countries, according to scientific publisher Elsevier."

"Countries are pouncing on space work originally destined for the UK like a “feeding frenzy of hyenas” according to a selection of representatives from the UK industry and education sectors."

theregister.co.uk/2018/03/16/bre…

"Businesses in the trade (in the form of Airbus and Surrey Satellite) painted a gloomy picture, seeing themselves very much at “the sharp end” of Brexit with work on projects such as the Galileo constellation of navigation satellites already starting to bleed out of the UK."

So we have

bleeding

strangling

batter

Still at least we have the happiest fish

There is a reason

Why a party

Are so desperate to shag science

It is because on the exit from a pandemic that well

They have been "totally fucking hopeless" at

They NEED to shag a vaccine

That is why the vaccine and the NHS roll out of it

MUST be appropriated for political gain

It is a sign of how desperate politicians are

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1334092181062168576

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1405447168576606208

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