To be fair, I don’t watch horror films. In fact I rarely watch anything more upsetting than Fraulein Maria going back to the abbey in The Sound of Music. However, Donald Trump’s visit to the UK on July 13th is pretty horrific, more because it seems like a rather desperate attempt to pretend that we are going to be relevant as a country once we’re in not very splendid post Brexit isolation.
We should not be pandering to someone who uses his keyboard to lambast people from marginalised groups on Twitter and, worse, his pen to sign executive orders which make their lives more difficult.
There may be one or two protests when Trump arrives – and Jo Swinson made it known that we would be there.
The government has made the right decision to cancel Trump’s state visit, but this scaled down trip must not be met with scaled down protests.
Protesting against a man with dangerous, misogynistic and racist views is our responsibility. It is our opportunity to stand in solidarity with all the people he has abused and denigrated.
When he comes to the UK the Liberal Democrats will be front and centre of the protests.
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I have never protested against an individual person in my life. It’s not something that feels right to me, instinctively. However, the first thing I did when I went into work this morning was book 13 July off. it’s good to know there will be a LD banner to march under.
I’m not sure it’ll do any good. As far as I can make out, Trump is bonkers. He is off his rocker.
He’s certainly irrational and his oversized ego could actually feed on the protests. It might be best for everyone to just ignore him.
Photos of Blair and Bush together proved very useful to us in 2005.
So I hope the campaigns team are ready to get lots of nice photos of Trump with May, Trump with Boris and Trump with any other possible contender for Tory leader.
Either he should be ignored or, if there is some form of protest, it should be huge and totally silent.
@Alan Do you remember that fantastic leaflet of Jo’s in 2005 with the picture of Blair and Brown on one side and Charles on the other? One of my favourite leaflets of all time.
@Caron. I should do, I delivered enough of them 🙂
Perhaps Donald Trump should spend the Twelfth of July in Ulster, where he could see a similar style of rhetoric to his own on Orange platforms at the Field where the traditional march heads. I note that there is some talk of his visiting his hotel in Turnberry, about 50 miles from Belfast, where the biggest march starts. In the early days of television thereabouts (1960s) the only TV the Ayrshire coast could get was from Northern Ireland. Maybe, instead of a visit in person he could watch the march on TV in Turnberry…
Peter Martin – whether it will ‘do any good’ is not really the point. I’m not expecting him to change his ways because of a protest. It’s more about doing what you think is right, making a stand.