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A Cambridge University astrophysicist studying the Milky Way and hoping to play a major part in the European Space Agency’s (Esa) next big project has been forced to hand over his coordinating role on the scheme after the row over Northern Ireland’s Brexit arrangements put science in the firing line.
Nicholas Walton, a research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, reluctantly passed his leadership role in the €2.8m pan-European Marie Curie Network research project to a colleague in the Netherlands on Friday.
The European Commission had written notifying him UK scientists cannot hold leadership roles because the UK’s membership of the flagship £80bn Horizon Europe (HE) funding network has not been ratified.
Walton was to have led a doctoral network related to Esa’s Gaia mission that is mapping nearly 2bn stars in the Milky Way.
He is one just one of a handful of British physicists approved for a HE grant but must now take a passenger seat in his own project...
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... las-walton
Post-Brexit Dover lorry queues are now so bad a charity specialising in earthquakes aid and helping war refugees has been drafted in to care for suffering drivers.
RE:ACT Disaster Response has agreed a £180,000 six-month contract with Kent County Council to ease stuck truckers’ nightmare waits to board ferries and Eurotunnel shuttles.
The charity was brought in as the council warned pandemic lockdowns had masked the true severity of hold-ups caused by Brexit – with up to 50 days of gridlock now expected every year on motorways leading to Dover.
Boiler wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 3:30 pm From the above story:Aside form the brexit clusterfuck examples.
Post-Brexit Dover lorry queues are now so bad a charity specialising in earthquakes aid and helping war refugees has been drafted in to care for suffering drivers.
RE:ACT Disaster Response has agreed a £180,000 six-month contract with Kent County Council to ease stuck truckers’ nightmare waits to board ferries and Eurotunnel shuttles.
The charity was brought in as the council warned pandemic lockdowns had masked the true severity of hold-ups caused by Brexit – with up to 50 days of gridlock now expected every year on motorways leading to Dover.
Sorry your county is underwater, Westminster and Chelsea have outbid your rescue services.
Those guys are deployed in the capital keeping undesirables out of nice areas.
Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 9:09 pm Perhaps an insight into civil defence during crises.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defence_CorpsSorry your county is underwater, Westminster and Chelsea have outbid your rescue services.
Those guys are deployed in the capital keeping undesirables out of nice areas.
Nigredo wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 7:55 pmRelatedly:
UK labour shortage: 'It used to be easy to get fruit pickers'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-61568286
Andrew Sturgeon owns Lindsey Lodge Farm near Hadleigh, Suffolk, and says that from the "end of May into June we are full on, picking fruit"....
...We had a system where if someone [from the EU] dropped out from our team they would introduce a friend or relative to take their place. That's no longer possible and that's caused the problems we're seeing today."
Last year, the government issued 30,000 seasonal worker visas, but Mr Sturgeon said the "horticultural industry needs 80,000 or 90,000 workers".
He says following Brexit, people from the EU "will have chosen to go home and those are the people we need replacing".
"It was very easy to get pickers and now it's not very easy," he adds.
"This spring, we've already seen a large area of asparagus in the Woodbridge area did not get picked, that's a huge loss of income for the farmer and most probably meant we imported asparagus."
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