Re: Trumped up ...

Originally Posted by
JR*
I understand that the UK (like here in the Emerald Isle) has a procedure whereby securing a substantial number of signatures to a public petition (300,000 in UK, I think) in favour of a particular topic requires the House of Commons to debate the matter - whether in Select Committee or on the Floor of the whole House I am not sure. The result of any such process would count as "advice" to the Government, but would not compel it to act in accordance with the result. At least one British national newspaper, this morning, claimed that the required number of signatures had been obtained for an "exclude Trump" proposal. I understand that the UK has, in the past, excluded a number of foreign politicians and agitators, but never, I think, in response to a public petition. I am not sure whether "the Don" has any intention of visiting Britain in the near future - but I can easily see why the British Government would welcome such a visit like a hole in the head ... Yours from Doonbeg (Trump) Golf Resort, JR.
The required threshold for a debate in Parliament is 100,000 - to date the total has reached 450,000.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to differentiate between the incompetent and the merely unfortunate - Curtis E LeMay
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