Donald Trump has threatened to withhold £700m of investment in Scotland if he is banned from entering the UK.
MPs will debate later this month whether the US presidential hopeful should be refused entry.
It follows the billionaire property tycoon calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.
More than half a million people backed a petition calling on the tycoon to be barred for his comments, triggering a debate in the Commons.
However, there will be no vote at the end of the debate and it will be up to Home Secretary Theresa May to decide whether or not Mr Trump should be excluded from the UK.
Mr Trump owns the Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire as well as Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen.
In a statement, his Trump Organisation said it had planned to invest more than £200m at Turnberry and a further £500m at the Aberdeenshire course.
But it warned that any action to restrict travel would force it to "immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom".
Keep the money, just stay away..
Keep the money, just stay away..
We have enough arseholes of our own thanks...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Gee, I was kinda hoping he would go to Scotland, and then we could bar him from re-entry to the US...
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What would be the reason he could be barred--voicing unpopular opinions?
I agree the man is an ass, and I could see where he could be told to stick his money up his ass, but have we come to the point in the UK where someone saying something unpopular (or even offensive) should be refused entry?
eta: Now I would see no reason for him to be officially received by any government official or to be treated any differently than any other tourist/visitor.
I agree the man is an ass, and I could see where he could be told to stick his money up his ass, but have we come to the point in the UK where someone saying something unpopular (or even offensive) should be refused entry?
eta: Now I would see no reason for him to be officially received by any government official or to be treated any differently than any other tourist/visitor.
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Big RR wrote:What would be the reason he could be barred--voicing unpopular opinions?
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The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 (c. 1) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which creates an offence in England and Wales of inciting hatred against a person on the grounds of their religion.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
But he didn't make those statements in England or Wales, so would that apply?
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Good point. We should wait until he makes them here, then kick him out...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Or arrest him; after all, when you're in a country you're subject to its laws. 
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Watching him being put on trial could be amusing.
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Letting him in would be a hair raising experience.