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Britain
1M Poms sign petition demanding DJT meeting with HMQ be cancelled
2017-01-30
[STUFF NZ] Over a million people in Britain have signed a petition calling for US President Donald Trump's planned state visit to be cancelled to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, in a grassroots backlash against his immigration policies.

The invitation to make a state visit, which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by the monarch, was conveyed by British Prime Minister Theresa May when she visited Trump in Washington last week.

The petition was started before May's trip, but gained traction after Trump issued an executive order barring Syrian refugees and suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, sparking protests at home and abroad.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Abu, somehow I doubt that Trump will gift her with the first few seasons of "The Apprentice" so there is that.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-01-30 14:06  

#6  My guess is the Queen will get on with Trump a lot better than his predecessor.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-30 11:13  

#5  It is an on-line petition which means the results are immediately dubious.

Downloading the JSON file they so helpfully provide, we see a 'signatures_by_country' category. Some crude math says about 48,000 voters from outside the UK. Thanks to people from the UAE, Hong Kong, Denmark and France for playing!

Give me a bit to gin up a script and we can get that total over a trillion - assuming we don't hit integer overflow along the way.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-01-30 11:01  

#4  Add the signers to Trump's No Entry List. The CIA and NSA thank you for self identifying.
Posted by: Guillibaldo Stalin4227   2017-01-30 10:32  

#3  One million Poms named Ahmed?
Posted by: JFM   2017-01-30 10:12  

#2  They didn't most of the sigs are fakes
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-01-30 09:33  

#1  No issues here. We really cannot afford to have him away that long. Perhaps next year.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-30 08:21  

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