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Thread #162200   Message #3858851
Posted By: Jim Carroll
04-Jun-17 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: impotent futile anger...???
Subject: RE: BS: impotent futile anger...???
"Tell me Stu what parts of our health service are being, or have been, flogged off?
"Theresa May has left the door open for the greater involvement of US corporations in British healthcare as she arrives in America to lay the groundwork for a future trade deal.
Ms May would only say that she was committed to a health service that is free at the point of delivery, but made no comment on whether the NHS would be off the table in any future talks.
Trade and the UK's economic relationship with the US will be one of the key pillars of the Prime Minister's visit to Philadelphia and Washington DC.
Asked whether health services might form a part of a potential deal, she said: "We're at the start of the process of talking about a trade deal. We're both very clear that we want a trade deal."

"In what way has our government backed the sheer stupidity of Trump?"
"Theresa May has repeatedly refused to condemn Donald Trump's ban on refugees and entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations after meeting with Turkish leaders."
"Downing Street has defended Theresa May not signing up to a joint declaration by Germany, France and Italy in opposition to Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord by stressing that other countries also chose a different path.
A source pointed out that Japan and Canada had not signed up to the letter and said the prime minister's approach was "consistent as to how we approach dealings with international leaders".

What progressive policies of Europe have we eschewed?
The EU is set to inflict a double humiliation on Theresa May, stripping Britain of its European agencies within weeks, while formally rejecting the prime minister's calls for early trade talks.
The Observer has learned that EU diplomats agreed their uncompromising position at a crunch meeting on Tuesday, held to set out the union's strategy in the talks due to start next month.
A beauty contest between member states who want the European banking and medicine agencies, currently located in London, will begin within two weeks, with selection criteria to be unveiled by the president of the European council, Donald Tusk.
The European Banking Authority and the European Medicines Agency employ about 1,000 people, many of them British, and provide a hub for businesses in the UK. It is understood that the EU's chief negotiator hopes the agencies will know their new locations by June, although the process may take longer. Cities such as Frankfurt, Milan, Amsterdam and Paris are competing to take the agencies, which are regarded as among the EU's crown jewels.

DONALD Trump has shunned Britain and put the UK second-in-line behind the European Union for a new free trade deal with the US, according to Washington officials.
Jim Carroll