Donald Trumble! Trump may be barred from the UK over muslim hate speech
Britons are sensitive people. That’s a fact.
A petition to bar Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom has garnered, as at the time of this report, 207,207 signatures in less than 24 hours.
The petition was posted on the UK parliament’s e-petition website, Tuesday, in response to the United States Republican presidential candidate’s call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States in the wake of the San Bernadino massacre.
Having garnered that many votes, the UK parliament will have to debate whether to ban the controversial billionaire from entering the UK.
Although Chancellor George Osborne in the House of Commons agree that Trump’s comments “were not welcome”, he doesn’t think the businessman should be barred.
Hamstead and Kilburn’s Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, has backed the call for Trump’s ban.
“I would say to him you are not welcome in our country in the same way that you want to ban people like me going into your country,” She told BBC Radio London.
But it isn’t up to him alone.
Any petition on the government’s official website that is signed by more than 100,000 is automatically considered for debate in Parliament.
Donald Trump, Tuesday, said the United States should close its borders to all Muslim migrants and later described parts of London as “so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives.”
The petition reads:
“The signatories believe Donald J Trump should be banned from UK entry.
The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech. The same principles should apply to everyone who wishes to enter the UK.
If the United Kingdom is to continue applying the ‘unacceptable behaviour’ criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as powerful.
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