Fantastic news. The EU Clinical Trials directive, as enforced by this body, has very severely curtailed clinical trial-led research in this country, with output dropping sharply after the directive was rubber-stamped. This has impacted cancer and HIV research. The next millstone around the neck of biomedical research, due next year, is an EU Regulation: so wouldn't even be rubber-stamped by the Commons, it just passes into law with ZERO debate here. This regulation will be even more restrictive (the EU just love top-down Soviet-style red tape).

Our biomedical research industry is huge, but has been throttled (as with a lot of science shoehorned into lobbyist-driven "EU frameworks") by excessive bureaucratic overhead and restrictive constraints not encountered in powerhouses like the US.

Moreover, to suggest a regulatory body in existence, purely because of (excessive) EU oversight, would remain in a non-EU country is hilarious. My bet is a vast number of actual (ie useful, and not pen-pushing) jobs in the EMA will move to the Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute etc.

Dropping the excessive over-regulation of research will accelerate bio-funding into the UK, generate more jobs and (hopefully) lead to advances that will combat scourges like AIDS and Parkinson's. I won't be sad to see the EMA go.

Edited by Penge Eagle (07 Apr 2017 8.00pm)

Interesting take on the Gibraltar "issue".

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No one is talking about giving it up.Rather, that the EU and Spain are not being completely unreasonable (now we have told it to F Off), to want a say about any deal struck regarding the "dodgy" tax haven located at one end of Spain,undermining,for example,its tax revenue.As the linked article said,imagine if it was the other way round and the tax haven was located at Dover...

Maybe we should bring the status of similar tax havens, in Malta, Ireland and Luxembourg, in Brexit talks.

Given the moral high ground the EU is seeking to impose on Britain with regards to Gibraltar, one would assume that eradicating tax havens is something they wish to do across the whole continent, no?

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

I find it amusing that Bremoaners are the ones who use the 'Johnny Foreigner' type language to illustrate their points. It's kind of self defeating to that language, when Leavers aren't, no?

You point has appeared to morph from being a criticism of Gibraltar's tax status, supporting Spain's stance, to stating that all Leavers are against other countries using relpolitik. I find that spurious and weird, that you can label a group like that, which is far from homogeneous, from holding such a collective view. It's also going off in a strange tangent, one which appears to confirm that whilst you possess a modicum of intelligence, not all the wires in your head are connected properly and you regularly spout bizarre ramblings as a result.

Or you are a 'functioning alcoholic' and have just walloped a pint of brandy.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

So questioning your weird and seemingly unconnected points, isn't sensible?

I guess some people love dishing out stuff but don't like getting it back, no?

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02