“IS THE UK about to be handed over to the transnational corporations?”, asks Lee Dalton (July 25th). Obviously, yes.

Lee Dalton has, as I have, flagged up the Transatlantic Investment and Trade Partnership on several occasions. But this now not-so-secret organisation is getting the oxygen of publicity it no doubt does not want.

But of course, it is not any surprise that Tory Simon Hoare is in favour of TTIP. After all, he does represent free enterprise in all its many guises.

And, probably why, he assures us that “none of our fears were well founded”. Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he.

No, the whole ethos of the TTIP is but one thing, to commodity everything for profit.

The NHS is just one of many over-ripe fruits ready to be picked and consumed.

And by way of an apt illustration of this ongoing economic methodology – that everything must be inevitably commodified for profit, here is what the Tory MP Oliver Letwin said in his column “West Dorset To Westminster” talking about West Bay “For those of us that live amongst it, we have in it a great source of continuing revenue”. I rest my case.

Andrew Martin

Abbotsbury Road

Weymouth