Posted on 01/06/2016 10:50:46 AM PST by doug from upland
MPs are to debate whether to bar Donald Trump from entering the UK in response to a public petition calling for action against the US Presidential candidate.
About 568,000 people have backed a petition calling on the tycoon to be barred for comments he made about banning Muslims from the US.
Labour MP Paul Flynn will lead a debate in Westminster Hall on 18 January.
David Cameron has condemned Mr Trump, who has major business interests in the UK, but said he should be allowed in.
The Commons petitions committee decided to hold a debate on the issue after considering the matter at a meeting on Tuesday. Under the current rules, MPs have to consider any petition with 100,000 signatures for discussion in Parliament.
'Range of views'
The debate will be held in the Commons' secondary debating chamber rather than the full chamber and there will be no vote at the end of it.
Helen Jones, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said it would allow for "a range of views" to be expressed.
"By scheduling a debate on these petitions, the committee is not expressing a view on whether or not the government should exclude Donald Trump from the UK," she said.
"As with any decision to schedule a petition for debate, it simply means that the committee has decided that the subject should be debated."
But Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron questioned the decision to allocate parliamentary time to discussing Mr Trump.
He tweeted: "Trump is a bloviating billionaire with downright offensive views. But I'd rather we debated inequality or the NHS."
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Didn’t I read somewhere that mnost of the people who signed the petition were not from the UK?
Will they carry on TV?
don’t know
we should deport the Muslims to UK!
Trump is going to come out of this a hero in the UK.
The craddle of the Magna Carta...debating Donald Trump. Churchill would be laughing so hard....he’d probably have a stroke.
If they ban him....I think around forty million of us should send a personalized letter to the dimwits asking that we be banned too, and if Nazis ever show up to threaten their shores...Trump will be the first American to land and defend their soil.
Let them ban Trump, then when he wins the presidency, he tours Britain on diplomatic privilege while banned. :-)
Wouldn’t they be better served debating about removing Muslims from the UK?
And muslime as well.
They invite throat-cutters who 80% are on the dole and their PC-infected minds want to ban someone who wants to preserve THEIR culture.
The self-hate of Socialism is suicidal.
We should ban Islam, as the correct example for Britain.
I hope so. The remaining English, Scots, and Welsh understand, probably better than we do.
“Let them ban Trump, then when he wins the presidency, he tours Britain on diplomatic privilege while banned.”
If I were President Trump, I’d abide by the ban. That would be the strongest rebuke of the UK the world has ever seen. Paraphrasing what Jackie Gleason said in “Smokey and the Bandit” when referring to his son: “ There’s no way, no way that we could have ever come from their loins!” They have shamed our English heritage!
About 568,000 people have backed a petition , all named Mohammad
The more intelligent MPs will discover that they have urgent business elsewhere that day.
But they have no trouble admitting leaders of countries (China, etc.) where persecution of Christians is official policy.
I think with that many siggies they’re obligated to debate. I’d love a transcript. British Parliamentary debates can occasionally be...ah...vigorous...
Government by petition?
Whod'a thought.
According to this chart, that number of petition signers should be closer to 4,200,000...
But it WILL get better... < /s >
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