Taking a welcome break from wasting everybody's time with his bizarre claims about Marks and Spencer's "distorting mirrors", former UKIP MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk has been campaigning to increase the availability of cancer drugs Velcade and Tarceva in EU member states.

Quite legitimate and, indeed, laudable for Kilroy-Silk as an elected representative to raise this matter. However, he might bear in mind that decisions on the licensing of medicines are essentially a matter for individual countries, something that he was, presumably, fighting to maintain when he campaigned at the last European elections on a platform of opposing the EU having any powers whatsoever.

Moreover, last month Kilroy called on the EU to establish a system whereby health professionals who are banned from working in their own countries be put on a list so that they can be banned by all EU countries. Have Kilroy's three years as an MEP turned him into a Euro-federalist - I'm beginning to wonder?!?