The New Clause intended to protect the NHS rejected

["Misfit"]

MPs have voted against New Clause 17, with 340 votes to 251 - The New Clause intended to protect the NHS and publicly funded health and care services in other parts of the UK from any form of control from outside the UK.

 

[andipandi]

An amendment designed to protect the NHS from being subject to any form of control from outside the UK in a future post-Brexit Trade Deal has been voted down by 340 votes to 251 in parliament last night.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas put forward the amendment with the support of Labour leader Keir Starmer and a number of other senior MPs.

She said: “We do not want yet more warm words and nice rhetoric, what we want are some red lines in the negotiations, and the way to get them is to write them onto the face of this Bill”.


New Clause 17
In addition to protecting the NHS from foreign control, the amendment also contained numerous other measures to protect the NHS, including:

• Ensuring the ability to provide a “comprehensive and publicly funded health service free at the point of delivery” was not compromised by any future trade deal
• Protecting hard-working NHS staff from having their wages or rights slashed by any future trade deal
• Protecting the quality and safety of health and care services
• Regulating the control and pricing of medicines
• Protecting patient data from being sold off
• Protecting the NHS from so-called investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) – clauses which allow foreign investors to sue national governments for any measures which harm their profits.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...-foreign-control-in-brexit-trade-deals/21/07/

 

["Misfit"]

Tories clapping for the NHS

 

[andipandi]

Well, the Tories were never going to be nice for long, it's not in their nature, just like the scorpion, in the tale of The Scorpion And The Frog.

 

[zouzounaki]

tories

 

[Crewella]

tories

Nooooooo ...................... really?

 

[Simon G]

obviously....

Why would they vote for amendments to the bill put forward by Caroline Lucas?

Have we not learned anything over the last 4 years about how this stuff works, they'll vote down any and all amendments from the other side of the house and visa versa.

 

[zouzounaki]

Nooooooo ...................... really?

it is. the new working class loving tories as well. we are moved and honoured by your support, they said. now stand back while we truly shaft you right up the shiter.

 

[Rickster]

 

[Simon G]

What does the bill say on these matters without the amendments?