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BRITAIN’S powerful Unite union stepped up the fight yesterday on the corporate “Trojan horse” free trade deal that threatens to outlaw a nationalised NHS.
The union has sent a dossier to all Britain’s MEPs that exposes the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
It urges them to block the free trade deal “if the European Parliament is to have any legitimacy” in the eyes of the public.
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
