You can keep him!

[Gob]

More than 875,000 people have signed a petition demanding Donald Trump's state visit to the UK be cancelled in the wake of his Muslim travel ban.

The enormous response easily passed the 100,000 target needed for MPs to consider holding a debate on the motion in the House of Commons this morning, with more and more people flocking to sign it.

It is currently rising at an average of more than 1,000 signatures per minute and is already the third most popular petition in Parliament's history.

Plans for a state visit for President Trump were only announced 48 hours ago when Theresa May revealed he had accepted an invitation from the Queen.

But the call for action is still a long way off the largest Parliamentary petition in history when more than 4million people demanded a second referendum over EU membership.


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Petition
Prevent Donald Trump from making a State Visit to the United Kingdom.

Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen.


Donald Trump's well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prince of Wales. Therefore during the term of his presidency Donald Trump should not be invited to the United Kingdom for an official State Visit.



https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928

[Econoline]

If we get more signatures over here on this side of the pond, can we make you let him in and keep him from returning?

I'm thinking we could get at least 73,649,167 signatures.

[Econoline]

[Econoline]

As the state visit will apparently not be cancelled, the Queen prepares for her meeting with Trump:

[Bicycle Bill]

ON THIS DATE IN 1606 ....

Guy Fawkes was executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot of 6 November 1605.  He was convicted of high treason against the Crown and was sentenced to be hung until nearly dead, then brought down and emasculated and his genitals burnt before his eyes before then being disemboweled, beheaded, and finally quartered (although he managed to escape the physical agony of the latter part of his sentence by jumping from the scaffold and breaking his own neck) and the four parts of his body sent "to the four corners of the kingdom" as a warning to other potential traitors.

What Trump and his cohorts are doing to this country I would definitely call treason, and has the potential to be far more devastating than anything Fawkes and his co-conspirators could have ever imagined.  Even though we broke from England over 240 years ago, maybe there are some English customs and traditions we should have kept.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

If we get more signatures over here on this side of the pond, can we make you let him in and keep him from returning?

Well, let's see...

A mentally unbalanced person with a history of making threats and access to nuclear weapons...

That certainly should be enough to exclude him from re-entering the country...

[rubato]

They must all have been anti-Brexit voters. Brexit voters share his racism, ignorance, and unthinking nationalism so they would throw their arms around Trump and call him "brother".


yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

ignorance, and unthinking

[rubato]

Brexit will be a 'great thing' for UK, says Donald Trump

President-elect promises to move 'very quickly' to secure trade deal with Britain

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in Trump Tower Reuters

Donald Trump has pledged to move “very quickly” in securing a trade agreement with Britain after Brexit and predicted that leaving the European Union would be a “great thing” for the UK.

In an interview published in The Times with Michael Gove, the former Justice Secretary and prominent Leave campaigner, the President-elect suggested the fall in the value of the pound was “great” because “business is unbelievable in a lot of parts in the UK”.

“I think Brexit is going to be a great thing,” he added. “I thought the UK was so smart in getting out.”

A clear majority of UK voters LOVE Donald T-Rump!

[Lord Jim]

Well rube, just because Donald Trump says something, doesn't automatically make it wrong, (though certainly more often then not that will be the case.)

He's just like you in that respect...

Nobody's wrong 100% of the time; even you manage to somehow stumble blindly on to the truth every now and then...

If somebody who dedicates himself to being wrong with the kind of tenacity and determination you bring to the task can still inadvertently manage to be right occasionally, so can he...

[Gob]

Oh it's just rubato's inbuilt bigotry and racism coming to the fore, nothing new.

Poor soul, his Aspergers makes him unable to react outside of his stereotypical obsessiveness.

He's so upset that his new President is the wrong colour.

Rather than ban him, comedy writer David Baddiel proposes:

“I personally think it’d be funnier to let Donald come but hold him at the airport because he comes from a country that promotes terrorism.”

[Scooter]

Theresa May left alone and humiliated, as UK Parliament unites to send its own message to Donald Trump

Theresa May and her government have been left humiliated after the UK parliament voted unanimously to oppose the Muslim ban of US President Donald Trump. The May government now finds itself alongside UKIP and fascist groups like Britain First as the only voices in Britain backing the ban.

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband and Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi triggered an emergency debate in the House of Commons on 30 January. And the debate came at a critical moment. More than 1.5 million people have signed a petition demanding the cancellation of Trump’s state visit later this year. But resistance is happening offline too, with tens of thousands of people hitting the streets to protest the ban and Britain’s alliance with the US President.

[Bicycle Bill]

... resistance is happening offline too, with tens of thousands of people hitting the streets to protest the ban and Britain’s alliance with the US President.

I think Ms. May has found herself in the unenviable position of not wanting to alienate a long-term and powerful ally (the United States) even though the US ain't what it used to be even six months ago as it is currently being run by a pack of baboons.  She's praying that "this, too, will pass" and is basically riding out the storm and trying not to rock the boat until Trump and Co. gets the heave-ho and cooler heads prevail in the former colonies.

-"BB"-

[wesw]

brexit was resoundingly endorsed by parliament

did you see the vote tally?

#landslide

#quietly,quietly

#

[Scooter]

Someone is certainly doing a good job with the cut and paste of the Twitter talking points today. To the point of forgetting to remove the tags that serve zero purpose here.

[wesw]

never been on twitter, or even seen the site.

I just like making fun of hashtags

do you like my humour?

yes or no

circle one and pass the note back

#wes loves scooter

[Bicycle Bill]

Rather than building a wall on the southern border and making Mexico pay for it, let's build a wall around Trump instead.
We'll have no trouble getting donations to pay for it.

-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

Someone is certainly doing a good job with the cut and paste of the Twitter talking points today. To the point of forgetting to remove the tags that serve zero purpose here.

He has no clue - using spaces and punctuation in the 'hashtags', etc. Just trying to be a Twitler, like his idol.

[Lord Jim]

The May government now finds itself alongside UKIP and fascist groups like Britain First as the only voices in Britain backing the ban.

I'm sorry, but the charge that May is "backing the ban" is complete BS...

She said this last Saturday night:

Theresa May has issued a late-night statement saying she “does not agree” with Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the US, after coming under intense political pressure to condemn the order.

The prime minister released her comments through a spokesman shortly after midnight, saying the UK would “make representations” if British citizens were affected by the 90-day ban on travel to the US for those from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen.

“Immigration policy in the United States is a matter for the government of the United States, just the same as immigration policy for this country should be set by our government,” the spokesman said.

“But we do not agree with this kind of approach and it is not one we will be taking.

We are studying this new executive order to see what it means and what the legal effects are, and in particular what the consequences are for UK nationals. If there is any impact on UK nationals then clearly we will make representations to the US government about that.”

That may not sound like an aggressive condemnation, but it can hardly be accurately characterized as "backing the ban"...

And yesterday she went further:

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May called President Trump’s controversial travel ban “divisive and wrong” on Wednesday, a delayed response to the backlash she faced at home for failing to criticize the executive order.[Another mischaracterization; saying you don't agree with something is clearly an expression of criticism]

May, the first foreign leader to meet with Trump at the White House last Friday, told Parliament that “this government is clear that that policy is wrong. We wouldn’t do it. We believe it is divisive and wrong.”

I'm certainly prepared to cut May some slack here, since she was blind-sided by this fiat, just hours after she had completed a visit with Trump at the White House...

But even her initial response could in no way shape or form be called "backing the ban"...

[Gob]

British MPs lined up on Monday to pour scorn on a “racist and sexist” Donald Trump, who they said should not be allowed to come to Britain for a state visit because of the risk it would embarrass the Queen.

The US president was compared to a “petulant child” and had his intelligence questioned by MPs during a three-hour debate triggered after more than 1.8m people signed a petition urging Theresa May to cancel her invitation.

So many politicians packed into Westminster Hall for the debate that they had to have their speeches limited to five minutes each.

Alex Salmond said he was unsure over whether to be appalled by the morality of the invitation or astonished by its stupidity.

“As an example of fawning subservience, the prime minister holding hands [with Trump] would be difficult to match,” the former Scottish first minister said. “To do it in the name of shared values was stomach churning. What exactly are the shared values that this house, this country would hope to have?”

Labour’s Paul Flynn said that only two US presidents had been accorded a state visit to Britain in more than half a century and it was “completely unprecedented” that Trump had been issued his within seven days of his presidency.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... sit-debate