TTIP Scary!!!

[scorza]

The TTIP is an EU trade agreement, it's negotiated by the EU not sovereign states. The EU Trade Commission negotiates on behalf of the EU with consultation to the EU Trade Policy Committee. The UK delegate to the TPC is, I believe, Chris Barton - Director, International Affairs, Trade Policy & Export Control at Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

So there you are Scorza, Chris Barton has been actively involved in the negotiation of the TTIP on behalf of the UK.

This one? Citation needed.

 

[Surfer]

If you are not sure what TTIP is it's probably better you check out http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html than me trying to explain it.
I urge you guys to sign the following petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119659
Apparently the article contains a lot of speculation but it's still pretty damn scary!

signed, at the very least worthy of further investigation.

 

[Bego2K]

In case anyone was interested the petition is still going, currently at just over 10,200 signatures so the government has to respond apparently waiting 2 days for a Government response.

 

[doodah]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-in-eu-trade-deals-leak-reveals-a6937141.html

If true, remind me again why the EU would allow themselves to be bent over so much for the US?

 

[Dave M]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-in-eu-trade-deals-leak-reveals-a6937141.html

If true, remind me again why the EU would allow themselves to be bent over so much for the US?

Or why the US would bend over so much for the EU? It goes both ways and is entirely logical - how can you have a common regulation zone without harmonizing those regulations, not just now, but in the future also?

Is this what the news has become? It's like announcing to the world you break eggs to make an omelette!