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The Tories want to put the UK into the TPP.

That would imply subjecting it to the ISDS clause ("I sue democratic states") that gives foreign companies more rights than citizens.

Australia has suffered greatly from the ISDS clauses.

The British and Australian governments plan to subject those two countries to a business-supremacy treaty which gives businesses direct power over what laws the countries can have.

This would be implemented with an ISDS clause ("I Sue Democratic States") that would empower foreign businesses to sue the state if it does anything that would reduce the profits those businesses expect to make.

The advocates of taking the UK out of the European Union said that the goal was to recover Britain's sovereignty. I warned that the Tories would give that sovereignty to global business instead, and now they are about to do it.

Australia has bad experiences with an ISDS clause, and politicians should have learned their lesson never to accept one again. But the current government of Australia is irredeemably plutocratist.

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