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Another Remainer Threat Bites the Dust 😋

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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Well, it looks like yet another threat by the EU to exact revenge on the UK for Brexit isn’t going too well.

The European Union threat to remove the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, from London and relocating it to another EU city looks to have stumbled at the first hurdle.

In a story to warm the cockles of your heart, it turns out that the staff who work in the agency would much rather stay in London than end up moving to places like Amsterdam, Barcelona or Milan, despite some 23 European cities laying out their wares in their official submissions to become the new home of the EMA.

MEPs have been told that up to three quarters of the staff, which include some top scientists and academics in their field, want to remain in the UK even after it has exited the EU, as they now feel that London is their home.

This news will come as no surprise to Leavers, as we know that the UK will continue to be a vibrant and wonderful place to work after we leave the EU. And this puts paid to the claim that Brexit would drain the UK of scientists.

But one assumes that the Remainers will be shocked as they believe that everyone is queueing up to get out before the tumbleweed starts drifting across a deserted ghost-town London.

These EU workers will of course have the right to remain and work in the UK once we’ve left, we’ve already offered that. So let’s take up the suggestion of head-hunting them for the new UK medicines agency, which we will have to start when we strike out on our own. They, after all, have the sort of expertise that we need going forward. And they could work from the same building - a win for Brexit all round.

The EU has already expressed concern that it could potentially lose so many people of calibre and knowledge and there is also the matter that there may be no break clause in the 25 year lease of the building the EMA currently occupies.

Now, I have to say that at this delicate moment in negotiations this is of course not something to boast and crow about … but doesn’t it make you proud to be British!

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