I've just been handed a leaflet to save the NHS, I would be grateful if someone could Google it and bring it up please, I can't do that from my windows phone, there is a petition to sign; 38DEGREES.ORG.UK/TTIP thanks.
TTIP
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There only a mention that the NHS could suffer due to commercial interests.
Looks like "revolutionary" group.
pred
It will apparently:
Allow companies to sue governments if they make decisions affecting big businesses profits - like capping energy prices, introducing plain packet cigarettes, or raising the minimum wage.
Stop future governments from rolling back privatisation of our public services, like the NHS, energy companies, or the Royal Mail.
Relax the rules which protect consumers, our environment, our welfare and health services, to much weaker levels seen in the US.
It will apparently:
Allow companies to sue governments if they make decisions affecting big businesses profits - like capping energy prices, introducing plain packet cigarettes, or raising the minimum wage.
Stop future governments from rolling back privatisation of our public services, like the NHS, energy companies, or the Royal Mail.
Relax the rules which protect consumers, our environment, our welfare and health services, to much weaker levels seen in the US.
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longdogs
We all know how to save the NHS but that petition will never appear
I would erge you to reconsiderJBR at least on this one . The TTIP is probably the most insidious , invasive and detrimental piece of legislation ever to rear it's ugly head.
War on want has this to say 'As officials from both sides acknowledge, the primary aim of TTIP is not to stimulate trade through removing tariffs between the EU and USA, as these are already at minimal levels. The main goal of TTIP is, by their own admission, to remove regulatory ‘barriers’ which restrict the potential profits to be made by transnational corporations on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet these ‘barriers’ are in reality some of our most prized social standards and environmental regulations, such as labour rights, food safety rules (including restrictions on GMOs), regulations on the use of toxic chemicals, digital privacy laws and even new banking safeguards introduced to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.' from http://www.waronwant.org/campaigns/trade-justice/ttip.
the Huffington Post has this article on it as it my affect the NHS http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08 ... 57210.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 13124.html
The Guardian say The lies behind this transatlantic trade deal lhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... yers-eu-us
Panic spreads through the European commission like ferrets in a rabbit warren. Its plans to create a single market incorporating Europe and the United States, progressing so nicely when hardly anyone knew, have been blown wide open. All over Europe people are asking why this is happening; why we were not consulted; for whom it is being done.
They have good reason to ask. The commission insists that its Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership should include a toxic mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement. Where this has been forced into other trade agreements, it has allowed big corporations to sue governments before secretive arbitration panels composed of corporate lawyers, which bypass domestic courts and override the will of parliaments.
This mechanism could threaten almost any means by which governments might seek to defend their citizens or protect the natural world. Already it is being used by mining companies to sue governments trying to keep them out of protected areas; by banks fighting financial regulation; by a nuclear company contesting Germany's decision to switch off atomic power. After a big political fight we've now been promised plain packaging for cigarettes. But it could be nixed by an offshore arbitration panel. The tobacco company Philip Morris is currently suing Australia through the same mechanism in another treaty.
And these petitions are not a waste of time and effort either. Recently 38 degrees campaigned against Syngenta and the result was that they have withdrawn their controversial application to allow their banned bee killing pesticides back onto British fields.
Owen Paterson, the environment minister, sided with Syngenta. But the decision was deemed so toxic that it was brought all the way up to the Prime Minister and his cabinet to discuss.
The day before the big meeting, the huge people-powered petition signed by over 200,000 of us was delivered to the PM’s desk. [2] And on the morning of the meeting, hundreds of us swarmed on Downing St to confront the ministers as they arrived.
38 Degrees members have a great history of protecting our countryside and wildlife. From campaigning for the European ban in the first place, through to stopping our forests from being sold off, we have shown we’re prepared to organise both online and in person to make change happen."
Go on then - give us your enlightened view on what that petition would be...
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longdogs
If you don't know, you are not as intelligent as I gave you credit for.
Or you are just intelligent enough to stop yourself from saying something dumb.
