United Kingdom lawmakers debate banning Donald Trump from Britain

US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was called all manner of names by British MPs on 18 January during a heated debate on whether to ban him from entering the UK.

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. “It would probably give him a halo of victimhood as a martyr and perversely that will attract more support for him”, he said.

A counter-petition calling for Trump not to be banned has gathered more than 42,000 signatures.

“We shouldn’t build him up with our attacks”.

Mr Dromey said said: “I don’t think Donald Trump should be allowed within 1,000 miles of our shore because he would embolden the EDL on the one hand and fuel the flames of terrorism on the other hand”.

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 call to ban Trump received more signatures than any other listed on the site, and multiple British news outlets reported lines out the door of members of the public hoping to get in.

“His comments regarding Muslims are wrong”.

“This online petition signed by almost 600,000 people shows that when people feel a sense of justice, when people feel that we need to stop a poisonous, corrosive man (from) entering our country, they will act in good conscience”. His (Trump’s) words are not comical, not amusing.

“But I don’t want to assist Donald Trump in any way and I think that is the view of almost all MPs, and we could perversely by banning him, increase his standing amongst his supporters in America”.

Alex Chalk of the governing Conservative Party argued that Trump’s behaviour was “buffoonery” which should be met with “the classic British response of ridicule”.

However Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, said he could relate to Mr Trump’s fight against political correctness, and as a Yorkshireman, he applauds the presidential candidate’s straight-talking approach to politics.

Trump has threatened to pull £700m of investment in Scottish golf courses if he were to be slapped with a ban.

She said she couldn’t believe “valuable parliamentary time was being wasted debating a matter raised as part of the American Presidential election”.

She said: “I, as a Member of Parliament for Bradford West, would give an open invitation to Donald Trump to visit my constituency”.

“Using the powers vested in her, Theresa May has excluded people who have included serious criminals, far-right extremists, homophobic extremists and these rules should be applied consistently and equally to all”.

A government statement on the petition webpage said: “The Prime Minister has made clear that he completely disagrees with Donald Trump’s remarks”.