Before yesterday, I didn’t know much about TTIP. I was vaguely aware of it, but didn’t really understand what it was. Then I saw it being discussed briefly on this RT interview with Kerry-anne Mendoza, Editor-in-Chief of The Canary, and began to wonder why there weren’t currently mass protests over it. TTIP is an international deal which gives private companies to sue governments over legislation which prevents them from making profit. In other words, a company could come in, and if there was legislation or a public body in their way, they could sue the government for millions in taxpayers’ pounds. The greed of the individual would come before the authority of the state; power would be in the hands of the businessman, whose profit would be more important than our welfare. We can effectively wave goodbye to the NHS: under TTIP, a private health insurance company will be able to just wade in and claim that the NHS prevents it from making money – it will have to be broken up. Why aren’t we all out protesting against this disastrous loss of sovereignty? And why hasn’t there been anything about this in the mainstream media? Things like this are making me turn away from news sources like the beeb, and towards independent sites like The Canary.