UK lawmakers to debate banning Donald Trump

The parliamentary debate was sparked by a Scottish activist, whose petition calling for Trump to be barred entry to the country has received more than 500,000 signatures, far more than needed to prompt a Parliamentary response.

The petition will be debated in Westminster Hall, not in the House of Commons, for three hours later today (Monday January 18).

He warned it would be an “almighty snub” to those who voted for him if it remained in place.

“With the collapse of the oil price, the investment in Aberdeen has never been more important and Mr Trump is likely to spend more than he initially planned when the economy recovers”.

“So I will not allow the rhetoric of badness into my life, into my heart, but what I will do is challenge that with goodness”.

But a Conservative MP said if the Government banned him it would be “falling into a trap”, and he also pointed out that Mr Trump could conceivably become president.

“This is not what we’re saying”.

He said: “I was going to go down to the mosque with him and let him talk to people there”. “It would probably give him a halo of victimhood as a martyr and perversely that will attract more support for him”, he said. “I think he should come here, have a lesson in going to all our cities”.

Mr Corbyn added that he didn’t think the US Presidential hopeful should be banned from the United Kingdom, despite his “weird and off-the-wall views”.

Flynn acknowledged that Trump’s remarks had caused “a great deal of upset”, but said “I think we might already be in error in giving him far too much attention”.

Britain also turned away anti-Islam Dutch legislator Geert Wilders at an airport in 2009.

Does the debate reflect British public opinion on Trump?

“This is the public speaking with a very loud voice indeed”, Flynn added.

Campaigners staged protests at two golf resorts owned by Mr Trump in Scotland on Sunday ahead of the Westminster debate.

Donald Trump’s reality-show-style emergence as Republican front-runner, however, is putting that notion to the test. Brits have watched his rise with a mixture of bemusement, alarm and indignation – the latter coming after he alleged that certain areas of London were off-limits to police because of rampant Islamic radicalization. We should greet him with courtesy.

David Cameron also has said he does not support a ban, while condemning Trump’s comments about Muslims as “divisive, stupid and wrong”.

“My personal view is that we shouldn’t ban people like Donald Trump, but we should have the confidence to stand up for what we believe in, have an open debate and defeat the views in open debate”.

He told MPs: “His entire style of politics is to stoke controversy and say outrageous things”.

It’s the No. 1 question headed into the primary season: Does Donald Trump merely have fans, or does the national front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination have voters who will mobilize come caucus day?

Parliament should focus on tackling the real problems around security, terrorism and immigration, he continued, rather than “worrying about one man’s ego”.

He added: “In a free country we have the freedom to offend people”.