{"id":6466,"date":"2015-10-26T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:49:02","slug":"save-nhs-from-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6466","title":{"rendered":"Save NHS from trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Cameron has so far refused to sign up to a historic pledge to protect the NHS from the EU\/US trade deal that could spell the irreversible sale of our NHS.<\/p>\n

 
\nPoliticians across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have signed the historic pledge to protect our NHS from being irreversibly sold to US private healthcare companies through the EU trade deal called TTIP.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe signatories include Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition. The new Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has also now been sent the pledge.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe cause of protecting the health service from TTIP has led Northern Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leaders and their Assembly colleagues to cross the sectarian divide in an historic show of total unity in support of the NHS.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe refusal by the Tories to exempt the NHS from the American trade deal flies in the face of legal advice. This confirms that there are clear dangers arising from TTIP that could impact the NHS, unless political leaders are ready to use the veto to deliver a robust carve-out.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe UK is able to exempt certain areas from the American trade deal but so far the government is refusing to do this for the NHS, while other countries like Germany are using exemptions.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDavid Cameron needs to add action to warm words,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite general secretary Len McCluskey. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe leaders of the main political parties across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have signed the historic pledge to protect the NHS from the EU\/US trade deal.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bExpert legal advice confirms that there are clear dangers arising from TTIP that could impact the NHS unless political leaders are ready to use the veto to deliver a robust carve-out,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n

 
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe NHS unites us all,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 McCluskey went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe people of this country do not believe it is right for the NHS to be part of this trade deal.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

 
\nThe full text of the pledge reads, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe the undersigned believe that the provision of public healthcare by the NHS is much too important to be put at risk by the EU-US trade agreement, known as TTIP. In particular:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTTIP must not restrict the scope for decisions by any level of government, public authority or NHS organisation relating to public healthcare;<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTTIP must not give current or future US investors new rights that they could use to sue any level of government, public authority or NHS organisation because of their policies or actions relating to public healthcare.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe party leaders who have signed below agree to use the veto to protect the NHS from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) unless the NHS is fully and clearly exempted from the agreement.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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TTIP is being negotiated behind closed doors between the EU and the United States. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the biggest bilateral trade deal ever negotiated and threatens to make the sell-off of the NHS irreversible by giving the profits of corporations precedence over national lawmakers. TTIP could give US multinationals, or any firm with American investors, new rights to sue the UK government if it ever tried to take privatised health services back into public hands.<\/p>\n

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