Maybe a common sense approach would work
According to my brief researches on the internet it was Oscar Wilde who originated the bon mot about life tending to imitating art (rather than the other way around) and already it’s semi-amusing to see how the American right’s flirtation with its Trump Experiment is simultaneously shaking up the world order and causing the supposed defenders of Western democracy to flex their “I told you so!” muscles.
Meanwhile Theresa May – characterised openly by some as a hard-working, well-meaning plodder rather than charismatic natural political statesman – has played up to that stereotype by behaving like a plonker at a press conference upon her dash to Turkey over the weekend at which she stalled for time by claiming that “American’s policy on immigration is up to America and the UK’s is up to the UK” and then trying to correct this rather crass off the cuff reaction by having the Number 10 press team issue something more British and globally-impressive/responsible the minute she got home.
Elsewhere I read that an official Government online petition (a vehicle that needs to attract 100,000 signatures in order to prompt Parliament to hold a House of Commons debate on the subject) calling for President Trumps’ invitation to make a formal state visit to Britain to be withdrawn – an invitation extended by Mrs May last week during her visit to the White House which The Donald immediately accepted – has attracted over eight times that number in its first twelve hours.
As I awoke in the wee hours this morning to the dulcet tones of Dotun Adebayo on Radio Five Live reviewing the howls of outrage protest and anguish now reverberating around the world at Trump’s recent executive order instantly limiting the ability of refugees from seven named Muslim-majority countries (and various categories of others) to enter the USA, I rapidly hatched a rather good wheeze whereby the UK could attempt to assist the new US administration connect with its senses.
Or perhaps that should be ‘to appreciate the important lesson that every human being needs to learn at some stage, preferably at his/her mother’s knee’ – but which President Trump and those who sail with him have so far seemingly failed to grasp – i.e. that actions have consequences.
Why doesn’t the UK Government simply announce this week that, until further notice, nobody with – or claiming – Scottish ancestry, blood, kinship or citizenship can visit England, Wales or Northern Ireland?
Not only would this extract the UK Government from the problem of having placed the Queen in the embarrassing position of having to play host to a lunatic US President at some point in 2017, but it would mean that the rest of the UK wouldn’t be (as now) bored to death by having to listen to the 56 SNP MPs who have been elected to the House of Commons, still less Nicola Sturgeon – or indeed the hundreds of other Scots who come south of the Border every year to infest our radio waves and television channels and prevent proud, solid, law-abiding English and Welsh yeomen and women from having broadcasting equal opportunities in our own green and pleasant land.
