BRITAIN: Over 200,000 Sign Petition Calling For Trump To Be Banned, Parliament Must Now Consider

Well, THAT didn’t take long. The BBC reports:

A petition calling for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be barred from entering UK has gathered more than 200,000 names, so MPs will have to consider debating the issue. The petition went on Parliament’s e-petition website on Tuesday. It was posted in response to Mr Trump’s call for a temporary halt on Muslims entering the United States. Chancellor George Osborne criticised Mr Trump’s comments but rejected calls for him to be banned from the UK. Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures is automatically considered for debate in Parliament.

And a bonus story from Scotland:

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has stripped Mr Trump of his status as a business ambassador for Scotland. A Scottish government spokeswoman said his “recent remarks” showed he was “no longer fit” to be in the role and his membership of the GlobalScot business network has been withdrawn.

(Tipped by JMG reader Julian)