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  • Anyone else Suffering or getting work due to brexit failure
  • allan23
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    Nothing appears to have hit our European contracts yet in Identity Management.

    From friends, I know one who has a lot of exchange rate dependent accountancy to do as their suppliers are abroad, if the pound stays low they would have to look at layoffs but nothing major yet.

    The Civil Servant friends seem fairly happy as they’ll have lots to try and cope with.

    One hospital friend reported that their department has been notified they are now excluded from a major European funded project for research into cancer. The study was to last over 5 years and they couldn’t risk the UK being involved and exit part way through.

    A university research friend has been told they’ve lost funding for an EU project due to uncertainty, although he did say the project was pretty shonky to start with and was looking unlikely to happen anyway.

    I suspect there’s a few genuine and a few excuses.

    dmorts
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    hot_fiat >> ^^yep^^. I live on a half built DWH development (Barrat’s “posh” lot. It’s not). The low loaders turned up yesterday to cart the plant away. Looks like we’ll be living in an abandoned development for some time to come.

    We live in the same. It’s definitely been quieter this past week…fewer contractors blocking us into our parking spaces for a start!

    kimbers
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    Nothing as yet (Research Institute part of a larger University), we have been assured that existing EU funding is safe, at least until we are formally out in 2 years

    there will be innevitable effects, though

    applying for grants is a lengthy process, I cant see any EU funding bodies awarding anything now until after the 2 years of uncertainty are up and then , who knows.

    The biggest effect is the feeling of embarrassment I have around my European colleagues, many of whom have spent years working and paying taxes here, who now think half the country wants rid of them

    we have been working to assure European collaborators that we will still want tow work with them, but, joint funded EU projects now look much less likely

    most ERASMUS students are OK as that too will run for 2 years and they should be finished by then, would be really sad if they are the last we get though

    Still at least we have made Britain Great again 🙄

    miketually
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    We’ve been progressively more stuffed since the Tories got in in 2010, when they changed the funding formula for sixth form colleges. A £9 million budget in 2009 will be a £7 million in a year or so, despite increasing our student numbers and reducing staffing levels.

    MrsToast
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    I know of three indie micro-studios that are closing and one that’s relocating to Germany because their VC funding had Brexit clauses based on the result of a referendum – funding was withdrawn.

    The biggest effect is the feeling of embarrassment I have around my European colleagues, many of whom have spent years working and paying taxes here, who now think half the country wants rid of them

    Same here, it’s a shock because we live in an immigrant friendly bubble (Warwick/Leam), and voted Remain. The games industry is filled with massively talented EU devs, not sure what will happen now with hiring.

    hels
    Free Member

    I work for a large public sector organisation in Scotland. They seem better prepared than most. Rather than trying to figure out of they are Arthur or Martha, seem to have settled on MacArthur.

    Work is always quiet at this time, it is both school holidays and recess.

    The impact for me is that the first 10 minutes of every conversation start with explaining why we still have to implement the piece of EU legislation that is my specialism. So there will be a small increase in business for the local bespoke t-shirt printers.

    Daffy
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    Definitely expect to see some push-back in how our proposals are refereed, and correspondingly, funded. We do very well out of the EU funding, out-competing everyone in horizon2020 AFAIK. We’ve now told Europe to GTF, so I’d expect a commensurate ‘no, u’ response on anything going in in the short term.
    It doesn’t even need to be anywhere near as blatant as that – science funding at the sharp end boils down to trying to rank and separate a lot of truly excellent people / ideas. The smallest weakness is enough to sink a proposal in such a competitive environment. Leaving the EU probably qualifies as a small weakness when asking for EU money.

    Aptly put. I’ve spent the past week re-writing all of my draft funding proposals for UK bodies only, but for may, it’s like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, which, as you said, makes for a flawed submission.

    molgrips
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    Just found out our team has lost two deals as a result of Brexit (it was explicitly cited as the reason). One with a big Bank that would’ve got us £8m. We’ve missed our targets for this quarter as a result.

    Sundayjumper
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    Me – contractor to MOD so probably safe, I don’t think Brexit will mean that we don’t need an Army any more.

    Wifey – retail, works in head office of a large premium department store / supermarket chain. She’s hopefully OK but the company will be feeling the pinch in the near future.

    OrmanCheep
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    Chemical Engineer here, laid off yesterday, along with all the other contractors at our place. Quarter of the staff guys made redundant today. No work at the company for the foreseeable. Drop in oil price finished off the bulk of the work; Brexit did the rest, killing the remaining profitable job (which was US funded).
    I know a few guys out of work long term, and there is literally nothing going in the design side for chemicals, pharma or oil and gas.

    Winter is Coming

    It’s all a cunning ploy, the Tories knew the third dip recession was coming, so timed the referendum precisely to make you think brexit was to blame. No-one actually voted out and it’s all one big scam 😉

    mikewsmith
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    Recycled from elsewhere but I hear the entire British political satire industry has collapsed…

    zokes
    Free Member

    Definitely expect to see some push-back in how our proposals are refereed, and correspondingly, funded. We do very well out of the EU funding, out-competing everyone in horizon2020 AFAIK. We’ve now told Europe to GTF, so I’d expect a commensurate ‘no, u’ response on anything going in in the short term.
    It doesn’t even need to be anywhere near as blatant as that – science funding at the sharp end boils down to trying to rank and separate a lot of truly excellent people / ideas. The smallest weakness is enough to sink a proposal in such a competitive environment. Leaving the EU probably qualifies as a small weakness when asking for EU money, so we’re likely in for a grim stretch of science funding from that direction. Mix in a cratered economy overall from this fiasco and UK science is in for a rough ride.

    Wholly agree with this – an absolute disaster for UK science, both in terms of attracting funds, but also attracting and retaining talent. Brexit has certainly confirmed to me that staying put downunder is the right thing for now. Winning science funding in the UK was difficult enough already without this!

    tazzymtb
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    Set up a company of consultants last year working with construction, manufacturing, waste and energy industries from sme to multinationals. Work is mental and we need 2 more in thr team at the moment. From speaking to customers they haven’t seen an impact yet either. Anyone want to train as an industrial hygienist based in the midlands? And any hse experts out there fancy a job in the borders/scotland?

    matt303uk
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    With regards to Science funding a friends Horizon 2020 proposal is looking dead in the water due to uncertainty over brexit, this on the back of him being made redundant last year due to government spending cuts to the HPA (now part of Public Health England). He’s almost out of options that don’t require him to leave the UK.

    totalshell
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    buying a significant amount of eu manufactured product for retail in uk for delivery in summer 2017. prices are quoted hard dockside in euros now payable 8 weeks in advance rather than on delivery as in the past and are quoting 10-12% more expensive than this years product.

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Fine in our business, over 85,000 clients ATM & probably rising.

    project
    Free Member

    Fine in our business, over 85,000 clients ATM & probably rising.

    Hopefully bliar and a few more war criminals will be enroling after wednesday when the Chilcot enquiry or coverup is realeased

    Northwind
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    Just had to restock some of the raw materials for my ebay shop from china, damn you brexit! My profit margin just fell from 400% to about 350%, bastards.

    (Also nearly shat myself as my paypal is old and always displays the balance in dollars…)

    cycl1ngjb
    Free Member

    No change as yet for me – small (mostly) software company – our management are very pro EU & we do some business in the EU – only one person I work with voted leave, the other dozen or so of us all voted remain

    project
    Free Member

    Sainsburys are closing down their Netto stores in august, joint owned stores with danish Netto.

    woody21
    Free Member

    There are still plenty of European Social Fund tenders appearing which are good until March 2018 and that date is due to changes in funding organisations (SFA to LEP). DWP have issued two notes about their funding basically saying they don’t know anything about the impact of Brexit.

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