It's not going to be spent on the NHS, as Farage has already retracted that promise.They'll have to pay for a lot of things on their own now.
Ah, but wait! They save 350 million pounds per week now, so all is fine ...
As a member of the academic community, I feel terribly sorry for my british colleagues. They are now excluded from a pool of over 70 billion euros of research funding - and Britain has always been a strong player in that field.
The positive side: less competition for the rest of us. But science and scholarship as a whole will suffer and that makes me sad.
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