“If other people have been stopped from coming into the country the same rules need to apply to Donald Trump”.
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Trump is the frontrunner in the race to win the Republican nomination for the USA 2016 presidential election, and has suggested banning Muslims from entering the United States and labelled Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers.
RANDALL HILL/REUTERS More than 500,000 United Kingdom residents signed an online petition calling for Donald Trump to be barred from the country for his “hate speech” calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. He said a ban could potentially pose bigger diplomatic issues: “He could conceivably become president of our most important ally”.
He sparked fierce controversy last month when he called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on”. Trump has also claimed that some areas of Britain are so radicalized that police fear for their lives.
Any petition that attracts more than 100,000 signatories is considered by British MPs for a debate.
More than 570,000 people have signed a petition asking the UK Government to bar Mr Trump, arguing there must be action against “hate speech” regardless of a person’s wealth or power.
The Democratic National Committee gleefully highlighted the debate, and linked to live web video of the debate in London, saying it was “shameful” that a Republican presidential candidate was the subject of such a debate.
She added: “In the words of the club captain, ‘If the Trump Organisation pulls out of Turnberry because its head is locked out, it would be a catastrophe for the resort and a tragedy for the local community”.
He warned it could “fix on him a halo of victimhood” and boost the cause of his supporters. Conservative Paul Scully said that while people had been excluded from Britain for incitement or hatred, I have never heard of one for stupidity and Im not sure we should be starting now.But Labours Jack Dromey said Trump was risky because he stirred up hatred among different faiths.Donald Trump is a fool, Dromey said.
He continued, “The line will go out: ‘Here’s the foreigners interfering, telling us what to do”.
Some argued Trump’s rhetoric is poisonous and corrosive, and the government should make use of its power to deny entry to people who are considered not “conducive to the public good”.
During the debate, which had been triggered by a huge petition, Labour MP Rupa Huq asked fellow Labour MP Tulip Siddiq whether she was aware that Trump was racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. He’s free to be a fool.
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Britain has banned people for controversial statements before, including Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who infamously burned a copy of the Koran during a service in 2012. A highly regarded “Spirit of Scotland” award was given to one Michael Forbes, hero of the film “You’ve Been Trumped”, a Scottish landowner who refused to sell his coastal property for a Trump golf course.
