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Thursday, December 31st, 2015

Government ‘may exclude’ Donald Trump after 565,000 sign petition calling for UK entry ban

Author:     Michael Wilkinson
Source:     The Telegraph (U.K.)
Publication Date:     11:47AM GMT 30 Dec 2015
 Link: Government ‘may exclude’ Donald Trump after 565,000 sign petition calling for UK entry ban
Stephan:   This is an absolutely appalling story. Think about it for a minute: The leading Republican Presidential Candidate for the 2016 election is considered so vile and vulgar, that over half a million people and growing more day-by-day, in our second oldest ally in the world -- France, with whom we have never gone to war is the oldest -- write their national leaders demanding that he be disallowed from entering the country. Then ask yourself why isn't this story news in the U.S.? Everything else about Trump is covered at granular level. MSNBC and CNN have become the Trump Networks. Why did I have to go to a British paper to find any mention of this development.
Donald Trump, Republican Presidential Candidate Credit: Reuters

Donald Trump, Republican Presidential Candidate
Credit: Reuters

Donald Trump could be banned from entering the UK after Theresa May, the Home Secretary, declared that she ‘may exclude’ people who are not ‘conducive to the public good’.

Banning entry to the UK for the US Republican presidential contender, who remains the frontrunner in the heated contest, has been called for by more than 560,000 people in a petition to the Government.

After reaching 100,000 signatures, the Government confirmed that the petition could be discussed in Parliament.

Now a spokesman for Mrs May has responded officially warning that Mr Trump’s comments, in which he called for a ban on Muslims entering the USA in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, were “divisive, unhelpful and wrong”.

The statement said: “The Home Secretary may exclude a non-European Economic Area national from the UK if she considers their presence in the UK to be non-conducive to the public good.

The Home Secretary has said that coming to the UK is […]

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