Top 5 Donald Trump Insults from British Parliamentary Debate
Donald Trump has been branded a “fool”, “buffoon” and “wazzock” by British MPs.
Flynn said the public profile of Wilders’ anti-Muslims views “was multiplied one hundredfold by the ban”, and he did not want the same thing to happen with Trump.
More than 570,000 Britons signed an online petition demanding that Trump be banned from the United Kingdom, prompting Monday’s debate.
The SNP MP told the chamber that imposing a ban would be “little more than an irritant to the man”.
The debate was led by Labor member Paul Flynn, chairman of the Petitions Committee, who said there was a risk that banning Trump would give him a “halo of victimhood” that would only play into his hands.
Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower is seen through railings, at Britain’s Parliament buildings in Westminster in London, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016.
Muslim rhetoric… British MPs are to debate a call for U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from the UK.
Another to back the ban was Labour’s Tulip Siddiq, who said those who had signed the “ban” petition were standing up to a “poisonous, corrosive man”.
Britain also turned away anti-Islam Dutch legislator Geert Wilders at an airport in 2009. The petition cites Trump’s controversial views on Muslims and immigration, calling it “hate speech”.
“Just think what would happen in the current climate if he came… and preached that message of divisive hate”, said Jack Dromey, an opposition Labour Party spokesman on home affairs.
Could Donald Trump be persona non grata on the soil of one of America’s closest and strongest allies?
He said the policy is not targeted at a specific group, adding: ” It is in the UK’s interests that we engage with all presidential candidates – Democratic and Republican – even though we may disagree profoundly on important issues”.
“I’m not sure Trump is going to be terribly anxious about this debate”, Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh said.
Executive vice president Sarah Malone of Trump International Golf Links responded to the debate on behalf of the Republican candidate.
“I suspect that Donald Trump’s words were borne out of his own fears, although as an aspirant leader he should be leading the way towards a clearer understanding of the issue”. If someone does bad, you do good in return. He is not free to be a unsafe fool on our shores. Instead, she said she would welcome him and challenge him on his views by showing him the British Muslim community.
Mr. Trump appears to have taken the threat seriously enough that his company, the Trump Organization, said in a statement that it would pull back from plans to invest more than billion in Scotland should he be barred.