Surely no-one thinks the history of U.K. CAA was GA friendly do they. My whole point is that neither CAA nor EASA have been without fault, but the CAA under Andrew Haines made substantial improvements working with Patrick Ky at EASA. Patrick Ky is there for at least another 5 years Andrew Haines is already moving on and CAA is staffed and geared up to work as a NAA within EASA, changing that will be non-trivial and whether it is then as GA friendly as EASA completely unknown. Better the devil you know etc. etc.