To Parliament, for the mass lobby for EU citizens. Most of us there were not British, and spoke up for their own rights. I went to communicate my desire for co-operation in Europe, and treating people decently. After, there was a demonstration against Mr Trump, to coincide with the Debate on our demand to rescind the State visit invitation.
Parliament is impressive.
I claim Cromwell for Remainers. He fought for the people against the Moneyed Elites.
More on this later. I don’t like writing on my phone.
I think the state visit isn’t about Donald Trump any more than it’s about Theresa May or Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; it’s about the President of the United States meeting with the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Queen of the United Kingdom. Declining to entertain such a visit on personal grounds demonstrates a significant confusion and ignorance about the role of heads of state in reciprocal diplomacy in international affairs and shows a willingness to act on that confusion to the detriment of one’s country. Refusing the president entry would be a significant insult to its closest ally and harm the state-to-state relationship as if the heads of state were the people who occupy then office rather than temporary representatives of that office and the citizenry it represents.
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However the current President is a psychopathic narcissist seeking to foment hatred within his country and possibly war abroad. His relationship to Russia is only explicable if he is in their thrall. Normal rules do not apply.
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