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Thread #156848   Message #3700341
Posted By: DMcG
07-Apr-15 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: voting? (UK)
Subject: RE: BS: voting? (UK)
As you know the details of TTIP are taking place behind closed doors so I think very few of us know what exactly is going on. Yes, there has been a lot of focus on the NHS but it is not limited to that and both GM and fracking have been raised as concerns by the US Center for economic and policy research (whoever they are.) See Wiki on TTIP which includes this extract of the leaked version :


Chapter II, articles 3 to 18 contains general principles for investment. Article 14 contains proposed rules which forbid governments to "directly or indirectly nationalise, expropriate" unless it is for a public purpose, under due process of law, on a non-discriminatory basis, with compensation.[25] Article 14(2) defines the necessary compensation as being "fair market value of the investment at the time immediately before the expropriation or the impending expropriation became public knowledge plus interest at a commercial rate established on a market basis".

So while I defer to your experience with judicial reviews under the current system, I was referring to any review into a case brought under that clause or any of the part of the treaty.

But in any case, that is losing the principle among the detail. And the principle is whether a company should be able to sue a government for decisions arrived at democratically.

I don't claim to know everything about this topic but I do know enough that I want my concerns discussed by my candidates. And they at least give the appearance of being concerned as well
well. That may just be skilled politicking naturally