I am glad to support the local People’s NHS campaign to exclude the NHS from TTIP, the transatlantic trade deal that is currently being negotiated on our behalf – and in secret – by the European Union. I call upon Bob Walters – the current MP for North Dorset – to get behind this campaign which has so much support among his constituents. All of the other parliamentary candidates have done so.
I recently spent a day in Blandford town centre talking to voters. Time and again the NHS was brought up, with one lady telling me that she has been waiting over two weeks for a GP appointment. I also met the team from the People’s NHS at their street stand in the square.
I am firmly committed to global free trade and the liberalisation of markets, but there are some areas where the settled will of the British people is for public provision – the NHS being the prime example. Britain must therefore be free to negotiate her own trade deals with the rest of the world – something that we cannot do as long as we remain members of the EU.
Would David Cameron veto TTIP if it threatened the NHS but all other countries wanted to go ahead? That would surely be an opportunity for him to prove that he wants to be “in Europe but not run by Europe” as his party is fond of claiming.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Unwin
Parliamentary Candidate for North Dorset
UK Independence Party
