MPs say we need more politicians like Donald Trump

More than 570,000 people signed a petition calling on the Government to stop Mr Trump entering the country following his remarks, with the petition sent forward for a debate in the House of Commons.

USA presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been branded a “buffoon” during a parliamentary debate on whether to ban him from entering Britain.

Under British law, any online petition backed by 100,000 people – who must provide and confirm an email address – is considered for parliamentary debate.

British MP Tulip Siddiq from the opposition Labour Party was in favour of the ban, telling Parliament Mr Trump risked inflaming tensions between vulnerable communities. Labour Party legislator Paul Flynn, who opened the session, said Trump had already received “far too much attention.”“The great danger by attacking this one man is that we can fix on him a halo of victimhood” and boost his popularity among supporters, Flynn said.

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.

Banning Donald Trump from the United Kingdom would “play into his hands”, an MP has warned.

“I think in this country we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board”. Even those who opposed the ban condemned Trump, yet argued that its proponents are inadvertently helping him by “fueling the man’s publicity machine”, in the words of Conservative MP Victoria Atkins, the Washington Post reported.

He responded to the British petition saying Britain was trying to disguise a “massive Muslim problem” and threatening to withhold planned investments in his two golf courses in Scotland in the hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars, euros).

Trump raised the ire of British Prime Minister David Cameron after last month’s terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., by proposing to keep Muslims out until more rigorous security checks are in place.

Paul Scully, a member of the Conservative Party, noted that people have been barred from the country for hate speech and inciting violence, “but not for stupidity”.

In an official response to the petition, a UK Government spokesman said Home Secretary Theresa May had the power to ban non-EU residents from the UK if their presence was believed to be “non-conductive to the public good”.

Also banned was Terry Jones, a Florida pastor who tried to organize a Qur’an-burning protest several years ago.

She said she would invite Trump to her constituency and take him to mosques, synagogues and churches. Donald Trump would like me banned from America…in my Islam… what it teaches me, is that goodness is better than evil, if someone does bad, you do good in return. “I will not allow the rhetoric of badness into my heart”, she said.