UK lawmakers slam Trump, but most oppose banning him

In the United Kingdom, more than half a million people have signed a petition calling for the billionaire to be barred from entering Britain, where he has business interests.

“The line will go out “Here’s these foreigners interfering, telling us what to do”.

And he has made controversial remarks about Mexicans, saying numerous migrants who crossed into America were rapists and criminals.

MPs are debating a pro-ban petition, which has attracted 574,000 signatures.

Trump is leading the polls for the Republican nomination for the White House ahead of the US Presidential election in November.

But Tulip Siddiq, who supported a ban, said Trump’s words “are not amusing, his words are poisonous” and added they “risk inflaming tension between vulnerable communities”.

Trump drew global outrage with his comments, which came after 14 people died in a shooting spree in California by two Muslims, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation said had been radicalized.

In an intervention, one Conservative MP, Andrew Murrison, warned that parliament must not deliver an “almighty snub” to the USA and highlighted the fact that the U.S. might actually elect “this ridiculous man” to be their president.

Trump’s mother was born in Scotland, and he owns a golf resort there.

“Donald Trump is free to be a fool but he is not free to be a unsafe fool in Britain”.

It was gathered that many people were angered by the Republican presidential candidate’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States in an attempt to combat extremism and terrorism.

“I happen to disagree with Donald Trump’s view, but whatever people think surely he should be entitled to have this opinion and to express it, and to give all of those people who have that view a voice in the political process”. Cameron has condemned Trump’s remarks as bing “divisive, stupid and wrong”. But Tasmina Ahmed-Sheik of the Scottish National Party argued that Trump is best addressed “not with a ban but with the great British response of ridicule”.

He told MPs: “His entire style of politics is to stoke controversy and say outrageous things”. “Lavishing him with attention, even if our intent is to condemn or deride, is only falling into the trap he has set for us”.

The biggest problem with the debate was pointed out by Paul Scully, a Conservative.

“I’ve heard of a number of cases where people have been excluded for incitement, for hatred”.

Labour MP Paul Flynn opened the debate by revealing record numbers support the motion but he did not support a ban.

British Home Secretary Theresa May already has the power to ban certain visitors – including those deemed nonconducive to the public good for reasons such as a record of hate speech – but such a move would appear highly unlikely. “I want to ban all Donald Trumps from Scotland”, he said on Sunday.