Which side is your future MP on?

Dear
John
,

Will your next MP be committed to defending our NHS?

With less than a week to go, and the polls tightening, it's more important than ever to find out which election candidates are on the side of the NHS. We want the new Parliament to be full of MPs who are willing to stand up for our NHS against Trump's trade deal.

Check here to see if the candidate you're voting for has signed the pledge ([link removed]) to protect the NHS from trade deals by ending privatisation. If they haven't:
Ask them to sign now! ([link removed])
There's been a lot of noise about whether the NHS is 'on the table' or not.

Thanks to the leaked trade documents we saw last week, we can confirm that it is. This blog explains exactly what's in those documents, and what it means for the NHS ([link removed]) , but one phrase in particular sums it up:

The US wants to 'lock in current market access' for public services. For the NHS, that's not just the 18% of budget that currently goes to private companies - that's the whole of the NHS. Thanks to the Health and Social Care Act 2012, all NHS services have to go out to tender, so that private companies can compete with public NHS bodies to provide the service.

So if we sign a trade deal on the terms that the US want to set, we'd be locking in the privatisation of the HSCA - and making it impossible for us to restore the NHS to a fully public, national health service.

And it's not obvious that the UK would be able to refuse these terms, even if we wanted to. We're in a weak negotiating position because of our desperate need for trade after leaving the EU.

So don't believe Boris Johnson when he says the NHS is not for sale. He couldn't resist the prospect of US trade, even if he did want to save the NHS. And we know he doesn't. ([link removed])

In this election, candidates can choose to stand up for our NHS, or bow down to Donald Trump. Which side are your candidates on? If they haven't signed this pledge, they're not on the side of the NHS:
Email your candidates ([link removed])
Over 500 candidates have signed so far, from all over the country.
* Labour candidates are currently in the lead, closely followed by Greens.
* The SNP and Plaid are backing the pledge, and a fair few of their candidates have signed.
* The Lib Dem leadership has not endorse our pledge, but despite this, a few Lib Dem candidates have signed up.
* Conservatives have been instructed not to sign at all - but two have broken ranks!

Are you voting for someone who has signed the pledge?
Take 1 minute to ask ([link removed])
Solidarity,

Cat, Alice, Chris, Ellen - the We Own It team
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