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Colin Elliott's avatar

Without such research into these grants, one might think that £8billion was being spent usefully in scientific research to hold our own in this competitive world, so the cynic in me says that mischievous civil servants are deliberately sabotaging the rest of us by peeing taxpayer funds against the wall, but also enjoying a bit of humour at our expense by choosing such stupid projects.

And do their Conservative or Labour ministers have a clue what they're up to? Taxpayers don't.

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Millicent Fullwood's avatar

These people and people like her are mentally insane…. Seriously sickening. Thank Charlotte for articulating so brilliantly

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Millicent Fullwood's avatar

Probably both

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Colin Elliott's avatar

Insane, or crafty?

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Nigel Sturgeon's avatar

Just because the word 'ghost' exists, it does not follow that that ghosts themselves exist and I am staggered that my hard-earned tax bill is being wasted in this way.

Given that this is taxpayer funded, is it possible to use FOI requests to see the record of interviews, decision making, meeting minutes and people involved in the process of funding this nonsense? Or perhaps you already do this Charlotte.

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