Veto health plea

Demands that David Cameron should veto health from a transatlantic trade treaty known as TTIP, were made by Unite assistant general secretary, Gail Cartmail.

Gail Cartmail explained that the Tory government’s health and social care act of 2012 accelerated the sell-off of the NHS to private health firms, and TTIP now threatens to make this sell-off irreversible.

Gail said, “It is clear this government thought they could do this deal in secret, a deal that would mean the irreversible sell-off of our NHS to America. Imagine that – no way back.

“Wall Street financiers like Blackrock and Invesco are already heavily invested in the NHS – over 70 per cent of new contracts are now in private hands.

“Over £11bn of our money in the hands of casino capitalists. It is happening – galloping privatisation.

“The campaign is growing, the demand is getting louder. Cameron can no longer ignore voters on this issue.

“Each one of us must go back to our communities and make the demand – veto health from TTIP.

“Shame on this government because they have privatised our health care with no mandate.

“But they will not be allowed to sell-off our health service to America.”