Re: Canada Signs Free Trade Agreement with EU
Hi
The EU has much more to offer Canada than a stand alone UK.
It is no sort of model at all for the UK.
If you read your link, you will see that one of the two big sticking points was Pharmaceuticals. and EU Certification.
Pharmaceuticals are one of our biggest exports, the UK could have benefitted from this.
Our pharmaceuticals are certified by the EU Regulator, the EMA, based in London, as we are the biggest Pharmaceutical Manufacturer in the EU and the EU amounts for 25% of the total world market.
The EMA is regulated by the ECJ in any disputes, not that there have been any for many years.
It is one of Theresas May's Red Lines, no ECJ.
When we leave the EU, we leave the EMA, that means we have to replace it.
This will cost £Billions and take many years to do, all the regulators are leaving, not just the buildings, they are going to the EU.
Our Government has refused point blank to guarantee the staff continuity of jobs or even the right to reside here with their families.
The EU has, is relocating them and paying all their expenses.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is not just me having another go at the stupidity of Theresa May.
It is a serious problem, acknowledged by Governments across the world.
Japan even raised it at last years G20 Meeting.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...ency-leaves-uk
Once these leave, they will not be coming back.
The cost of Austerity so far in the UK is around £20 Billion a year, the cost of leaving Euratom and the EMA is more than that, it is a nonsense.
We could leave the EU without leaving either.