If any of you out there are still paying attention to any of my rants you may remember that one of my pets subjects has been ‘outsourcing’. Well today I discovered why this slimy bunch of worthless scum we call a government are so hellfire bent on selling off everything we have, it’s because of something called TTIP. Ever heard of it? No, I didn’t think so. It seems it’s an obscure little deal currently being negotiated between the EU and the US which, to quote EU Commission website is, “The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade agreement that is presently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States. It aims at removing trade barriers in a wide range of economic sectors to make it easier to buy and sell goods and services between the EU and the US.”
Sounds pretty innocuous doesn’t it? Unfortunately it isn’t; the ramifications for the UK are absolutely massive. It will mean that practically every service currently the responsibility of government or local government will be required to be available for tendering by private companies. That will be schools, hospitals, ambulance services, fire services, possibly police forces, the courts, civil service functions in other words almost everything.
So why haven’t we heard of any of this? Well once again to quote the EU Commission website,
“For trade negotiations to work and
succeed, you need a certain degree of confidentiality, otherwise it would be
like showing the other player one's cards in a card game.” Politician speak for “We didn’t want you to know until it’s too late.”
According to
David Cameron we are not going to hand over any more powers to the EU without
an in/out referendum. However, included
in this little soupcon of legislation is something called “Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)”.
This a tiny snippet of legislation
that to all intents and purposes emasculates a country’s courts in cases where
a supplier is in dispute with the state.
To illustrate what this might mean to the UK let me remind you of the
recent scandal involving outsourcing companies G4S & Serco overcharging the
government by tens of millions of pounds for work on offender tagging contracts
that they either didn’t do or they did entirely incorrectly. Notwithstanding the fact that this corrupt
government is in the process of allowing these maleficent organisations to buy
their way out of any prosecutions, which in itself smacks of corruption; under
TTIP the UK courts would be unable to enforce a punishment if it chose to award
one.
I don’t know if
the EU’s plans for a federal Europe have yet progressed as far as developing a
system of honours and awards; but if and when it does rest assured Cameron and
Grayling will be among the first up there to collect their gongs.
