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Originally Posted by feniin (Post 2977001)

I thought you right-wingers didn't want government intervention and regulation on private businesses? Can't the market sort that out?

Why do you think I'm right wing?

U.S. diplomat's wife leaves U.K. after becoming suspect in fatal road crash.

The wife of a U.S. diplomat has left the U.K. after becoming a suspect in an investigation into the death of a motorcyclist involved in a fatal road collision, police said. Harry Dunn, 19, died after his motorbike and a car collided near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.

The U.S. embassy in London said it offered its “deepest sympathies” to Dunn’s family following the accident “involving a vehicle driven by the spouse of a US diplomat assigned to the United Kingdom.”

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Originally Posted by Thrombosis (Post 2977006)

Why do you think I'm right wing?

Because I can read your post history?

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Originally Posted by feniin (Post 2977013)

Because I can read your post history?

Yeah but your judgement is horrible.

“Unless the police turn up at the doors of 10 Downing Street with a warrant for the prime minister’s arrest, he won’t be leaving.”

In an unprecedented escalation of the constitutional crisis, senior aides said Johnson would not stand aside if his proposals were rejected by Brussels and MPs tried to unseat him to avert a no-deal Brexit. They said Johnson was prepared to “squat” in Downing Street even if MPs declare no confidence in his government and agree a caretaker prime minister to replace him.

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Originally Posted by Horza (Post 2977435)

Daily Fail mirror to bypass the paywall.

EU Foreign Minister: EU needs more troops and must be prepared to use them.

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The EU must have more troops and be prepared to use them across the globe, the bloc’s incoming foreign affairs chief has told the European Parliament.

Josep Borrell, who is nominated to be the EU’s next chief diplomat, said that Europe could not allow itself to become “irrelevant” on a world stage dominated by superpowers such as the US and China.

“We have the instruments to play power politics,” he said at a European Parliament hearing into his candidacy to head up the EU foreign affairs service, “The EU has to learn to use the language of power.”

“We should reinforce the EU’s international role and further our military capacity to act,” the 72-year-old Spanish socialist added.

“We should pool our national sovereignties together to multiply the power of individual member states,” Mr Borrell said, "I am convinced that if we don't act together Europe will become irrelevant."

Mr Borrell called for the numbers of EU troops that could be deployed to be raised to at least 55-60,000. He said the 60,000 target was first set in 1999 by EU leaders after the Balkan war.

The EU does have “battlegroups” of 3,000 soldiers from across the EU on standby every six months but these have never been used and would require the unanimous support of every member state before they could be.

Mr Borrell said the EU had to speak with a unified "truly integrated" foreign policy voice on the world stage. He said the total defence spend in the EU was half the GDP of Belgium and more than in China and Russia.

But that spending did not translate into military capacity because it was fragmented among the EU member countries, Mr Borrell said.

"...just a dangerous fantasy" according to some.

The prime minister has urged the U.S. to reconsider giving a diplomat's wife immunity after she left the U.K. despite being a suspect in a fatal crash.

Anne Sacoolas is wanted by police over the death of motorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, in Northamptonshire on 27 August. The U.S. State Department said diplomatic immunity was "rarely waived."

Chief constable Nick Adderley said based on CCTV evidence, officers knew that on the night of the crash a vehicle had left the base "on the wrong side of the road."