I can’t wait for Donald Trump to be elected president so he can tell these pompous twits to get lost and to pay for their own defense. They’ve been sucking on the American tit for too long. Grow up mates! Time for America to leave NATO.
In an unusually disdainful statement, London’s Metropolitan Police said, “Mr. Trump could not be more wrong.”
London Mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the right-wing Conservative Party who is tipped by some to be the next British leader, also responded: “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron described Trump’s comments as “divisive, stupid and wrong.”
But the petition to ban Trump from entering Britain could go beyond words. The British Home Office really does reserve the right to refuse entry to foreigners coming to the country to speak under the unacceptable behaviors or extremism exclusion policy.
Anti-Muslim American speakers such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been blocked from entering the country by these rules before, as have extremist Islamic preachers and others whose presence the home secretary has decided would “not be conducive to the public good.”
Some prominent politicians, including Jack Dromey, home affairs spokesman of the opposition Labour Party, and Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, have backed the proposed Trump ban.
To an American reader, banning someone from entering the country because of words they’ve uttered may seem extreme, but Britain and much of Europe have a very different attitude toward free speech. There has been some debate in the country as to whether to ban the Islamic State’s signature flag, for example. In theory, at least, anti-Muslim sentiment is dealt with just as seriously.
