We have the opportunity to exempt certain industries or institutions from TTIP, as the French and Germans have done. It should come as no surprise that this government have chosen not to apply such protections to the NHS

This deal isn't "secret". It's been reported in various papers, publications, books, on web sites etc. all the way back to the draft proposal stage.

Whilst more could have been done to explain what is undoubtedly a terrible deal for the average person - the truth of the matter is it's a done deal.

TTIP is an upgrade to WTO, which itself was an upgrade to GATT. No-one other than the usual crowd who actually bother to, you know, read daily bothered to oppose the aforementioned. And it will be the same with TTIP.

Even if Our Saviour, Russell Brand, stirred the proles out of their beer-soaked stupor with his oratorical genius - TTIP would be railroaded through parliament.

Big, big money is at stake. You could pitch the wrath of two million or more protesters against such and it would be like asking Dad's Army to defend the village against the full might of a battle-hardened SS mechanised brigade.

The SS lost, though.

In fact, they never turned up at the gate.

Truth be known, members of the SS who survived WWII came out significantly better off than the average British squaddie - who needed to live until the mid sixties before the economy took a turn for the better.

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