Private, endowment and British funds can make up for the EU.
Getting out from under EU regulations and negotiating as a free agent is a better deal for most Brits.
[ edit: must have touched a nerve. +1 to -4 in an instant. ]
[ edit: must have touched a nerve. +1 to -4 in an instant. ]
The reason why the EU was providing funding was because market forces were unwilling to.
Ah, yes. Private charities providing public services, the driving force behind the rise of communism in the 19th century.
> Getting out from under EU regulations and negotiating as a free agent is a better deal for most Brits.
People keep saying that, but why? Britain is now in a much worse negotiation position than before.
You only need to look at startup funding:
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/06/24/2167618/the-risk-to-uk...
And you realize there will be repercussions for funding and endowments too.
- Human rights are governed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which is a separate organization and treaty than the EU. It's unlikely the UK will leave the Council of Europe too.
- Safety regulations on products are part of the single market treaties, just as free movement of people is. If the UK wants to remain in the EEA (e.g. through membership of the EFTA), it will still have to accept those.
But her statement really shows her (willful) ignorance:
"The ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals – and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia’s when it comes to human rights"
As the home office minister, she should know damn well that the ECHR has no teeth except for EU regulation. Leave the EU, and there is no enforcement mechanism left for ECHR rulings. Not to mention the inconsistency of her own statement: how come the ECHR binds the hands of the UK government, but not Russia's? (The answer is above: it's EU regulation, not ECHR that bound her hands).
All this anti UK sentiment is caused by fear mongering from the pro-EU lobby. The Brits are our friends, but just like the Russians, they don't dance to the tune of the power hungry EU bureaucrats and the propaganda machine is suddenly aimed in their direction.
Also TTIP is the kind of think I can see a Conservative government signing up to immediately. The UK is far more "free market" than the rest of Europe.
That's just not true [0] [1].
There's been a lot of movement relating to countries being open to global free trade [2].
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/29/...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/brexit-is-a...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/08/business-min...
As far as I understand it the UK was a very strong driving force behind TTIP.. Getting us into this mess and then leaving before the consequences start to affect you, isn't very nice to say the least.
And the xenophobic posturing of the Leave side is not to blame?