Well, they might have just stopped short of saying that, but project fear and lies continues apace.
Potentially life-saving cancer research and could be hindered and patients in the UK lose out, if Britain voted to leave the EU, a group of leading scientists have said.
In the latest intervention in the referendum debate from the scientific community, the cancer specialists said that “shared work and funding” between the UK and other EU states was improving cancer services for British patients, and warned that Brexit could risk the breakdown of close international collaboration between scientists on vital research.
Bullshit. The EU is not necessary for international cooperation on such things and to say that Brexit will have an impact is disingenuous.
“Intervention” in the second paragraph? Surely they meant “invention”?
Indeed, last time I checked, CERN (which is where websites were invented) was in Switzerland. Which is not an EU member. We also have ties with researchers all over the planet, not just in the EU. Including Scandinavian institutions.
Christ, not even the European Space Agency is part of the EU. Like the European Broadcasting Union (a British creation, and home to the Eurovision Song Contest), the ESA is independent of the EU. It includes Switzerland and Sweden among its members, and operates a launch site in French Guyana. Last time I checked, the latter wasn’t even in continental Europe, let alone the EU. Even Canada does some work through the ESA.
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/What_is_ESA
(Note how little the taxpayer contributes towards it: it’s practically self-funding. There’s a lesson to be learned there.)
Hang on, Longy! I thought all the evils affecting humanity were due to smoking and CO2. What else aren’t they telling us?
They have over done all this fear rubbish. I think everyone is just fed up now. Obama convinced me I was right to be voting leave as I really do not take being ordered what to do by an American posh boy I never had a chance to vote for. Next time some spokesweasel for the IMF, OECD or whatever tells me it will cost the UK £X if we left I will say that I don’t care as it’s a price worth paying now just SHUT UP!
Yes. Precisely.
They really are utter twats, aren’t they?
If we leave the EU, we won’t be able to use centimetres to measure ladies’ bazooms anymore.
Not that I ever did. Don’t like the huge numbers. Makes me sound about th size of a traffic roundabout, and not one of the mini-ones, neither. More like Hangar Lane Gyratory.
Well actually, WOAR, I think that if my bazooms sound bigger under EU measurement regulations that might very well be a Reason To Stay :>
My mind is boggling… 😀
I’m sure I read somewhere that cancer surival rates in the UK did not compare favourably with the main states in Europe.
So where is all this hugging and sharing of knowledge getting us then?
And Team Brexit tells me that the only way of preventing a Paris or Brussels style attack in Blighty is by withdrawing from the EU. Or the only way of stopping foreign criminals from coming to the UK is by withdrawing from the EU. Apparently Westminster’s refusal to participate in cross border criminal record checks has nothing to do with it. Or that Brexit is the only way of preserving the NHS – sheesh, you’d have thought that one would have made all the Ayn Randites convinced Remainers!
Project Fear is all both sides have. So I’ll vote with my economic interests, which are to stay in the EU.
The economic argument is irrelevant as it is all speculation. All that matters is Tony Benn’s five questions:
The EU fails on all of these points, being anti-democratic, unaccountable and unelected. I will vote for independence.