I understand your grief about all that is happening. It's not right. And it should not be that way.
But are you not opening up a can of worms by allowing outsiders to be able to legally petition changes in your own government?
If we Americans can petition your government to allow for Michael Savage to go where he obviously is not welcomed then couldn't some Islamic extremist also petition a Bin Laden type to someday legally become your PM?
I think if it's gone that far in your country (and I certainly do not doubt you), your last worry should be whether or not an AM talk radio host from the US can come and speak. You have serious problems that need to be taken care of before you end up on the floor 5 times a day.
Spot on.
Your government can petition all it likes to Westminster to let Farrakhan, Phelps, Savage or anybody else come over here.
We reserve the right to decide who we do and don’t want over here. The only issue is that under Blair the rules were tightened up to absurd lengths.
Having said that, they’re still not as absurd as your border controls.
The sheer amount of red tape I had to go through to even BOOK a trip to the States (despite being security cleared to work in datacenters in police headquarters all over Europe, having a 100% clean bill of health from the vetting agencies this side of the pond AND being in the UK at the invitation of a certain large American company) actually had me in half a mind to not bother.
And then I got felt up by the TSA on the way home.
Tell you what: we’ll let in Savage and Phelps, but first we’ll make them do six months of paperwork and then have a bunch of squeaky-voiced queens enthusiastically check their genitals for concealed explosive substances on the flight over.
Huzzah for freedom of speech... and freedom of movement.