ON the district election and the EU referendum.

Posted by bettysenior: No political party can be trusted on the NHS and that is a fact, as they have all signed up in principle to the toxic TTIP trade agreement. Hundreds of thousands of jobs will go in the NHS when privatised by the EU. The NHS and the EU referendum has more ‘future’ implications than what people presently perceive. Indeed, there is a lot of controversy concerning the effect that the proposed TTIP (TransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership) with the EU and USA will have on the NHS. The NHS is not exempt from the treaty, which allows corporate entities to trade with each other. Some say that the NHS will be made a special case by the EU and will not be allowed to be privatised. But others say that it will, as the EU never gives long-term guarantees. Indeed the power to exclude is not in the hands of British politicians but the EU and they will determine this fact after the TTIP is signed. But one thing is for sure, if the UK was out of the EU, the NHS would predominantly stay in public hands. It appears that the only way to conserve the NHS in public hands is to vote out on June 23 as left to the EU’s TTIP dictates, the NHS would in all probabilities eventually be privatised.

Posted by Phyllus Jones: The vote on the EU referendum will dwarf any other vote in our lifetime. Do we want the UK to continue on as a part of a federal EU country OR do we want to return to being a self-governing country.

I love the UK unconditionally and don’t want to see it swallowed up as just part of a large federal EU country.

On MP Neil Carmichael’s argument in favour of the academisation of schools.

Posted by castor8: There is no academic or commercial case for ‘academisation’ other than to prepare it for sell off. Like with the NHS and everything else, the Tories want to sell off the family silver to enrich themselves. They MUST be stopped.