UK Parliament Debates Banning Trump

All public petitions that receive more than 100,000 signatures are considered for debate by the House of Commons.

Monday’s debate won’t result in a vote.

The comments from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a socialist who represents a multi-ethnic district of north London, come a day before the British parliament debates a motion calling for a ban on half-Scottish Trump from visiting the country.

“As with any decision to schedule a petition for debate, it simply means that the committee has decided that the subject should be debated”, Jones said. But it was a rare opportunity for members of Parliament to share their views about the billionaire real estate tycoon-turned-politician and debate USA politics.

Though Trump was openly and ruthlessly criticised, Prime Minister David Cameron does not support the idea of banning him from entering Britain. In a hearty, three-hour debate, United Kingdom parliamentarians ridiculed the controversial candidate, but ultimately opted not to ban him from visiting their country.

Conservative Sarah Wollaston (Totnes) said a ban would “send a very clear message” to the USA about people who “demonise an entire people for no reason other than their religion”.

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).

Flynn told the Associated Press that he would try to convey the anger of petitioners, but suggested banning Trump could be “counter-productive” by making him appear to be a victim. “I want to ban all Donald Trumps from Scotland”, he said on Sunday.

Trump is now leading the Republican race across the board, with 34.5 percentage points in the national polls, Ted Cruz trailing a distant second at 19.3 percentage points.

And Labour’s Paul Flynn insisted attacking Mr Trump could “fix on him a halo of victimhood” and boost the cause of his supporters.

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, SNP member for Ochil and South Perthshire, said Trump was racist and she felt so strongly in favour of a ban because his words about Muslims applied to her, her family and her friends. It called for Trump to be excluded from the U.K.as a effect of his call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. She added that Trump’s words were “not amusing, but poisonous”.

Labour legislator Naz Shah was one of several lawmakers who invited Trump to visit their constituencies to see Britain’s multiethnic society first-hand.

“In that event, would such a ban be overturned, since it would be one almighty snub to the American citizens to which you have been referring”. Instead, she said she would welcome him and challenge him on his views by showing him the British Muslim community.