It's more a corporations against the people thing. The problem those treaties solve is that they lock future legislative changes at the national level.
After signing it, how are you going to change it? It will be very hard and we will accept it because it's like "things work in the real world".
And the EU may not even gain all that much from car sales, either, if the EU car companies don't get serious about EVs. TTIP may just make it easier for Tesla to sell more cars into the EU.
And now you know why it's mostly being negotiated in secret. The NHS is basically the third rail of British politics. If you want to know what happens when a government tries a little too hard to undermine it, look at any of our newspapers from last Tuesday or Wednesday. If you want to know what happens when a government mounts an all-out attack on it, look up "political annihilation for at least a generation" in your dictionary of choice. The Liberal Democrats basically got wiped out as a force in British politics in a single election last time, and much of that was because of how they mishandled one sensitive issue several years earlier. Trying to force NHS privatisation and allow foreign companies to literally sue future British governments who sought to undo any resulting damage would make the tuition fees mess that brought down the Lib Dems look like a warm-up act.
It's more a corporations against the people thing. The problem those treaties solve is that they lock future legislative changes at the national level.
After signing it, how are you going to change it? It will be very hard and we will accept it because it's like "things work in the real world".