Pressure is building on the conservative MP for West Dorset Oliver Letwin to stop the irreversible sale of our NHS as hundreds of households across Dorchester call on him to make sure David Cameron uses his veto to exclude the NHS from TTIP.
Hundreds of voters will place estate agency style ‘Stop the Sale’ signs outside their homes. TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership) is being negotiated behind the closed doors, between the EU and the United States. It’s 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.
West Dorset is the latest constituency to join the mass movement, which has seen over 100,000 collective actions by people. Households that have taken part include: Forest of Dean (Mark Harper), Bromsgrove(Sajid Javid), Battersea (Jane Ellison MP), Reading West (Alok Sharma MP), Cardiff North (Jonathan Evans MP), Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy MP), Broxtowe (Anna Sobury MP), Morecambe and Lunesdale (David Morris MP), Dumfries & Galloway (David Mundell MP), South Antrim (David Forde MLA) and Stockton South (James Wharton MP).
Local resident Sean Gray said: “Oliver Letwin must push David Cameron to use his veto to remove the NHS from this EU trade deal. Residents expect their MP to defend the NHS from an irreversible sell off . You would think a Tory MP would be taking up the fight against an EU trade deal on behalf of his constituents. Oliver Letwin is either going to protect the NHS or he is going put the corporate interests of the EU and US ahead of the British people.”
