Report in the Guardian this morning to say TTIP is in ruins perhaps fatally so.
So all us scaremongerers, who warned against undermining our sovereignty and democracy have been proven right.
Leaked Documents show that the US is actively trying t o dilute EU regulation on consumer protection and the environment. If the US had got its way, any regulation in the future would have had to be overseen by US authorities and corporations.
France has said it must therefore reject TTIP at this stage.
So PEOPLE POWER has paid off. European governments including our own never imagined that trade agreements would prove to be of such interest to the consumer ?why on earth did they think that? They tried secrecy to keep the truth from us and at last we now know what we have long suspected to be true. Governments have tried to hold us in contempt - it didn't work.
This has also implications for the EU as a unit. This episode shows that when people lay aside language differences, cultural differences etc to unit in opposition how strong we can be. We have taken back our democracy - well at least for 5 minutes.
Unity amongst consumers throughout the world is perhaps the only answer to global business.
With thanks to Mr Owen Jones.
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