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NHS campaigners are protesting in Sheffield today against a controversial international trade deal which will force its privatisation.
The Transtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is being negotiated between the European Union and the United States.
It will enable multinational corporations to sue any government which enacts legislation that interferes with company profits — such as health and safety regulations, limits on working hours and the minimum wage.
More than two million people in the European Union have signed a petition against the dodgy deal that will force governments to put public services — such as the NHS — out to tender.
Sheffield Save Our NHS group said that former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was the only Sheffield MP refusing to back the campaign against TTIP.
Sheffield Save Our NHS spokeswoman Alison Brown said: “The people of Sheffield oppose the NHS being part of an EU trade deal that means the irreversible sell-off of the NHS.
“Today we are making our voices heard and we are demanding that David Cameron acts and uses his veto to get the NHS out of TTIP.
“The Conservative government does not have a mandate to allow the sell-off of the NHS to become permanent.”
- Campaign group the People’s NHS will protest from 10.30am against the deal today outside Sheffield town hall. Sheffield’s five Labour MPs will join the protest and speak at the demonstration.
