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Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:36 pm
by Gob
We have enough arseholes of our own thanks...
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".
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:38 pm
by Lord Jim
Gee, I was kinda hoping he would go to Scotland, and then we could bar him from re-entry to the US...
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:39 pm
by Big RR
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.
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:59 pm
by Gob
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.
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:02 pm
by Big RR
But he didn't make those statements in England or Wales, so would that apply?
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:04 pm
by Gob
Good point. We should wait until he makes them here, then kick him out...
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:21 pm
by Big RR
Or arrest him; after all, when you're in a country you're subject to its laws.
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:24 pm
by Lord Jim
Yes, arrest him and keep him there...
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:28 pm
by Big RR
Watching him being put on trial could be amusing.
Re: Keep the money, just stay away..
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:41 pm
by Long Run
Letting him in would be a hair raising experience.