Sigh, Greenock, why you do these things?
TL;DR version is this: don't remove it unless the controller's being weird. If you do remove it, the controller may go weird. Or it may NOT go weird. Why? Because it's a Greenock board. The ground strap there is not strictly to comply with EU regulations - it's sometimes functional, sometimes not. Depends who put the keyboard together and whether they were paying attention or not when assembling the controller. Oh, and there's at least three different ways I've seen it. (And now you begin to understand why I hate Greenock boards so damn much.)
If you wanna PM me, I can help debug. May need to be re-anchored properly.
EDIT: Oh, and I honestly don't think any experts in M's agree on whether or not the grounding setup is inadequate, adequate, or overkill. You should see the setup on M5's and M13's. *sigh*