I have ideas but what I choose depends on what timescale and form Brexit takes, if it happens. If we shun all scientific funding and I'm unemployed, I will turn into a German by route of being adopted by my aunt (with the interesting side effect of becoming my own cousin). If I get a job in the EU before it happens, I will hunt visas through having a job.
The research department in which we work does receive some of our funding from EU sources but that is is a minority. No-one seems to have the slightest clue as to whether that will be replaced from other sources (e.g. the amount allegedly saved through non-membership) or not.
Any agreements which are genuinely good for all parties concerned, there's nothing stopping all parties from keeping. Any which are good for us and bad for someone else, we shouldn't be trying to cling to, anyway.
There is this widespread assumption that everybody else in Europe will behave unreasonably if we leave the EU, even that they will act out of spite in order to hurt everybody. I'm assuming that's scaremongering and, frankly, whether it is or not it's the hallmark of an abusive relationship.
In the short term, wait and see what happens next. I'm not going to be the kind of person who promises to emigrate if a vote goes the wrong way.
I don't have a backup nationality (assuming I don't synthesize one by moving to Scotland before the UK disintegrates); I'd have to trade on my skills instead, should the worst come to the worst. Luckily, demand for them looks likely to remain strong.
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I think your title is missing a p: champignons.
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The research department in which we work does receive some of our funding from EU sources but that is is a minority. No-one seems to have the slightest clue as to whether that will be replaced from other sources (e.g. the amount allegedly saved through non-membership) or not.
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Any agreements which are genuinely good for all parties concerned, there's nothing stopping all parties from keeping. Any which are good for us and bad for someone else, we shouldn't be trying to cling to, anyway.
There is this widespread assumption that everybody else in Europe will behave unreasonably if we leave the EU, even that they will act out of spite in order to hurt everybody. I'm assuming that's scaremongering and, frankly, whether it is or not it's the hallmark of an abusive relationship.
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In theory, we are eyeing Scotland - and arguing that the whole of the northeast of England should be doing likewise, as a region.
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I don't have a backup nationality (assuming I don't synthesize one by moving to Scotland before the UK disintegrates); I'd have to trade on my skills instead, should the worst come to the worst. Luckily, demand for them looks likely to remain strong.
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