If we vote to Remain what happens?

CLAPTON

mayonnaise wrote: »

People like Clapton's offspring will take these positions, earn vast wages and they'll easily afford townhouses in Chelsea and Kensington. A win-win for all. :rotfl:

whilst complete ignorance of a subject never stops you making an inane comment, it seems un-necessarily discourteous to refer to my offspring.

Linton

On the European Medicines Agency perhaps it is useful to see what it does...

Wikipedia:
The centralised procedure allows companies to submit a single application to the agency to obtain from the European Commission a centralised (or ‘Community’) marketing authorisation (MA) valid in all EU and European Economic Area (EEA)-European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). The centralised procedure is compulsory for all medicines derived from biotechnology and other high-tech processes, as well as for human medicines for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, auto-immune and other immune dysfunctions, and viral diseases, and for veterinary medicines for use for growth or yield enhancers. The centralised procedure is also open to products that bring a significant therapeutic, scientific or technical innovation, or is in any other respect in the interest of patient or animal health. As a result, the majority of genuinely novel medicines are authorised through the EMA.

After BREXIT what happens? An ideal opportunity to get rid of all this EU bureaucracy? We can be independent and run our own show. Have our own authorisation process completely separate to the EU's? AFter all we dont want to be told what to do by unelected Brussels bureaucrats.

Which authorisation body will the global pharma companies take most notice of? Will they focus on meeting the EU requirements or ours?

Or perhaps we will just sit on the outside and pay the EU to look after things for us?

BobQ

michaels wrote: »

So the biggest EU body in the UK employs 600 - I wonder how many the biggest EU bodies in France, Belgium and Luxembourg employ.....

Well, however many it is, the British amongst them will be back looking for jobs after a Brexit vote.

Rinoa

BobQ wrote: »

Well, however many it is, the British amongst them will be back looking for jobs after a Brexit vote.

I've no doubt there are numerous such agencies covering a multitude of disciplines all over Europe. After Brexit we'll set up our own agencies, every one of which will be UK based employing mostly UK people.

CLAPTON

BobQ wrote: »

Well, however many it is, the British amongst them will be back looking for jobs after a Brexit vote.

100 of thousands of jobs are lost and created each year
anyway most of those particular jobs are filled by non UK citizens

Shakethedisease

Steady on Dave !

Generali

While it does sound a bit melodramatic, our experience of Europe outside the EU and before the EU was one of genocide and massive wars.

Shakethedisease

Is complete overkill imo. Jumping the shark in terms of rational debate. Either the private polling is going very badly wrong, or Cameron really believes this stuff. Why promise and base your GE campaign on the promise of an EU referendum in the first place... if World War was even slightly possible ?

Reel it in Cameron. This is looking well OTT.

Generali

Which bit that he's saying is incorrect? France and Germany fought 3 wars in quick succession prior to the EU coming into being and the break-up of Yugoslavia wasn't pretty.

IMHO it's a perfectly reasonable point to make.

michaels

So in conclusion if we had not got the chance to slightly limit benefit payments to EU migrants for 4 years (remember it was a red line) then Mr Cameron would be now campaigning for the start of the third world war?