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Comment WTO troubles (Score 1) 320

That something is likely to get him into trouble with the WTO. It may save some auto jobs in the short term, but US expert will be hit in the medium term as the WTO will authorize retaliatory tariffs to compensate foreign businesses.

You can put anti-dumping tariffs in place, not protectionist ones.

Of course, the US could quite the WTO, but that would have massive impact on US exporters.

Comment Champion of the "Snoopers Charter" (Score 1) 238

In her previous incarnation she was champion of the "Snoopers Charter": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"The Draft Communications Data Bill (nicknamed the Snoopers' Charter or Snooper's Charter) is draft legislation proposed by Home Secretary Theresa May in the United Kingdom which would require Internet service providers and mobile phone companies to maintain records of each user's internet browsing activity (including social media), email correspondence, voice calls, internet gaming, and mobile phone messaging services and store the records for 12 months. Retention of email and telephone contact data for this time is already required by the Data Retention Regulations 2014.[1] The anticipated cost is £1.8 billion."

Comment Re:Statehood for England (Score 1) 360

You kind of lost the moral high ground a long time ago.

Difficult to lecture people on free speech when your government spends its time torturing people to get them to talk.

That's not an argument in favour of censorship, just highlighting what happens when you have double-standards: people don't listen to you any more.

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