Donald Trump-style blanket travel bans on foreign citizens could be “viable” in the UK, Kemi Badenoch has said after giving a speech about law and immigration.
The Conservative party leader said she had not seen Trump’s list of banned countries but said: “I think there are scenarios where that is viable.”
Earlier this week the US president signed a travel ban on 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar and Haiti, citing national security risks. Nationals from those countries will not be allowed to enter the US unless they qualify for an exemption. Seven other countries will face partial restrictions.
Asked whether she would ever consider implementing a similar system in the UK, Badenoch said: “Parliament needs to be able to decide who comes into the country, for how long, and who needs to leave, and that does include travel bans. On a country-specific basis it’s much tougher, it’s often more vague. But I think there are scenarios where that is viable.”
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That sound you hear is William Gladstone’s grave.
But if we’re starting with blanket bans, I say, start with the Dutch!
After all, if Badenoch gets to 10 Downing and manages to implement this, parliamentary supremacy is to blame.
Send all that crummy Cromwellian Calvinism and those pamphleteer presbyterian Protestants back to where they belong – to the continent!
The King who brought back partying, who sheltered in the Spaniard Netherlands and France (our natural claim, were it not for an illiterate peasantress, need I remind?) wouldn’t have stood for this!
Ergo, down with the ascendancy and the low church, and up with the Stuarts and the high!
Blanket ban against any country that has a day celebrating independence from the UK.
If they are gonna go stupid, go big it go home.