Trade threat
TTIP is purely about increasing the power of multinational investors and reducing regulation on these bodies. TTIP would establish in law the right of multinational companies to sue nation states in a special court – the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) – if the nation’s regulatory framework were deemed a barrier to free trade. Campaigning bodies including War on Want, the People’s Assembly and trade unions are alerting people to this threat.
People should contact their councillors, MSPs, MPs and MEPs demanding that they act before it is too late.
William Thomson
Camnethan Street Stonehouse, Lanarkshire