Petition to Ban Trump in England

[jojoandleo]

The British Parliament could soon review a petition calling for U.S. presidential candidate and former reality TV star Donald Trump to be barred from entering the country on grounds that he has violated the U.K.’s laws against hateful and defamatory speech.

The Independent reported that a petition begun by Suzanne Kelly from Aberdeen, Scotland must gather 100,000 signatures before it can be taken up for debate by the House of Commons.


This is not Kelly’s first run-in with the real estate tycoon. She led a 2013 effort to block Trump’s proposed construction on “the greatest golf course in the world” at Scotland’s historic Menie Estate. Kelly raised serious concerns about the development project’s environmental impact.

Plans for Menie Estate are still tied up in court, with Trump angrily opposing a planned wind turbine farm off the Aberdeen coast. The 11 green energy wind turbines, says the mogul, will “spoil the view.”

Kelly’s current petition against Trump, who has roiled racist tensions in the U.S. with his remarks about Latino immigrants and people of color. Some in Britain believe that the newly minted politician’s remarks are dangerously racist.

The petition to block him from entering the country reads, in part:

The signatories believe Donald J Trump should be banned from UK entry for his continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour. His unacceptable behaviour is well documented, and we feel it foments racial, religious and nationalistic intolerance which should not be welcome in the UK.

The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech. This same principle should apply to Donald J Trump. We cannot see how the United Kingdom can condone his entry to the country when many people have been barred for less.

Furthermore, some British politicians like Scottish National Party defense head Brendan O’Hara are attempting to have Trump’s access to nuclear weapons preemptively curtailed should he win the Republican nomination for 2016.

O’Hara is spearheading an effort to end the U.K.’s nuclear missile program on the grounds that it will inevitably be an American president and not a British official who gives the order to fire the weapons.


“The UK’s independent nuclear deterrent isn’t, I believe, all that independent,” O’Hara said in Parliament last week. “In reality, it will be an American commander-in-chief who will ultimately decide, and in 18 months time that commander-in-chief could be President Donald Trump.”

www.rawstory.com/2015/12/britons-launch-campaign-to-ban-donald-trump-from-the-uk-over-hate-speech-violations/

[jeaniebueller]

THe problem with petitions like this is that it just adds fuel to Trump's fire. He and his supports do not care.

[mcsangel2]

I love it.

[mrsukyankee]

I'm signing it as long as it makes it through the initial review (which happens before you can actually put this forward).

[jdnotbyrider]

A BBC article on the whole situation:

www.bbc.com/news/uk-35052505

A petition calling for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be barred from entering UK has gathered more than 200,000 names, so MPs will have to consider debating the issue.

The petition went on Parliament's e-petition website on Tuesday.

It was posted in response to Mr Trump's call for a temporary halt on Muslims entering the United States.

Chancellor George Osborne criticised Mr Trump's comments but rejected calls for him to be banned from the UK.
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Can Donald Trump be banned from The UK?


. Labour home affairs spokesman Jack Dromey and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett have
backed the petition to ban Trump from entering the country, with Conservative MP
Sarah Wollaston saying the proposal merited "serious discussion".

. The Home Office has powers to ban speakers from overseas coming to the UK under the
"unacceptable behaviours or extremism exclusion policy".

. Last year, Home Secretary Theresa May said she had excluded "hundreds" of people.

. People banned from entering the UK under the exclusion policy in recent years
include leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church, Islamist preachers and Ku Klux Klan
officials, and two anti-Muslim bloggers.

Home Secretary Theresa May can exclude an individual if she considers their presence is "not conducive to the public good or if their exclusion is justified on public policy grounds".

Mr Osborne told the Commons that the remarks by Mr Trump flew in the face of America's founding principles and "were not welcome".

Downing Street said it was not aware of any plans for the billionaire businessman to visit, so any question of a ban on him coming to Britain was "hypothetical".

The full text of the petition - entitled "Block Donald J Trump from UK entry" - reads: "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."

In the US, the Pentagon has warned that Mr Trump's rhetoric on Muslims undermines US national security by boosting the Islamic State (IS) group.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry added to the widespread condemnation of Mr Trump's comments, saying they were "not constructive" in the fight against IS.

Mr Trump called for the ban on Muslims entering the United States following a mass shooting in San Bernadino, California.

A Muslim couple, believed to have been radicalised, killed 14 people at a health centre.

The prime minister's official spokeswoman has said David Cameron "completely disagrees with Donald Trump".

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It is important to note that while 14 petitions have been granted for a debate in Parliament, none of them have resulted in changes of stances or laws.

[jdnotbyrider]

I will add something of my own to my last post: The petition has over 275,000 signatures at this point in time, and I refreshed the page for shits and giggles, and I noticed that 20 new signatures were added to the petition EVERY SECOND.

[mrsukyankee]

Go us!

[mbcdefg]

Meanwhile, in Scotland, Robert Gordon University revoked Trump's honorary degree due to his remarks on Islam, while First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon canceled Trump's GlobalScot ambassador appointment.

news.stv.tv/north/1335389-university-strips-donald-trump-of-honorary-doctorate-after-petition/

[heyjude]

I hope these nations know...

#notallamericans

[jdnotbyrider]

With over 450,000 thousand signatures, the petition is now the MOST SIGNED PETITION IN THE WEBSITES HISTORY.

However, there's a "Don't Ban Donald Trump from the UK" petition that has 50,000 signatures and growing.