London to hold 'biggest protest ever' against US President

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

Campaigners are urging people to stage “the biggest protest ever” in London, when Donald Trump comes to the UK on a state visit later this year.

Anti-Trump campaigners took to social media to call for a demonstration in the streets of the capital after Theresa May revealed the US President had accepted an invitation from the Queen.

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A Facebook event has already been created by the organisation Stand Up To Racism to protest Mr Trump’s visit to the UK.

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Stop the War, People’s Assembly and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) are also backing the event and are urging people to “oppose Trump's racism, sexism and bigotry”.

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Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/donald-trump-london-protest-demonstration-us-president-theresa-may-a7550591.html

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Welcome to the real world. Donald. It despises you.

[raccoon]

1. Good going, Brits. nt

[Glamrock]

2. It's gonna be yuuuuuuuuuuge!

Well done, mates!

[livetohike]

3. They will do it too. n/t

[Squinch]

4. The entire world despises him. I'm not sorry.

[KittyWampus]

33. Some areas love him. Like Russia.

[tenorly]

5. A pointed message for Theresa May as well.

As in 'no, you may not'.

[Maraya1969]

31. Yea, what's her friggin problem?

She a racist like our jackass in the whitehouse

[tenorly]

38. Britain's Conservatives have always had a racist vein

There were unabashedly white supremacist Tory figures like longtime MP Enoch Powell, and posters like this one from the 1964 election (which they narrowly lost):



But even more mainstream Conservatives like Thatcher often betrayed their own bigotry - even at the cost of British standing abroad sometimes.

She famously shielded Apartheid South Africa from sanctions and helped them get around once the U.S. imposed them (over Reagan's veto, you'll recall). David Cameron, then a young party hack, actually started his Tory career agitating in favor of the Apartheid regime - "Hang Mandela" posters and all.

"Were it not for Reagan and Thatcher," Botha (the last hard-line Apartheid President) observed at the time, "we'd be alone in the world."

[center]

Botha and Maggie: so happy together.[/center]

[Achilleaze]

6. Speak out, and take action

Republican-Russian Fascism is an evil disgrace.

[dalton99a]

7. Excellent.

[MrModerate]

8. Shut the place down.

Can't let Trump think he can travel the world scot-free after having promised to trash it.

[mountain grammy]

9. Welcome to your eighth day

We will not go away!

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. The Queen did the right thing.

She set Trumpy up for the big surprise. She is lending legitimacy to the world-wide hatred of Trumpy by setting up the conditions for a huge protest. Trumpy can't refuse the invitation, and now he can't dismiss the hatred. And May is all the more pleased that she met with Trumpy and told him how he should behave BEFORE Trumpy talks to his master, Vlad Putin. (May, at first blush, is WAY smarter than Trumpy, and can play him like a dog on a leash.) So Trumpy is in a politically strategic vice. He's being squeezed. He has to decide who will control him: Putin or western Europe. He MUST make a public declaration and he MUST make policy. He's lately been signaling equivocation: thinking about lifting SOME of the sanctions. But he surely won't do so without exposing his "loyalties" (read: vulnerabilities) to Putin.

Christopher Steele was right. He deserves our admiration and thanks. Trumpy is being blackmailed by Putin.

[Maraya1969]

32. You're saying the Queen did this on purpose because she knew it would result in protests?

If true I just say, "Hail to the Queen"

[Eyeball_Kid]

40. The Brits have to play a different game.

They have a history of being attacked on their own territory. They know the meaning of vulnerability. They are more accustomed to thinking many steps ahead. And they all know that Trumpy is a danger to himself and others and he's a lightning rod for political unrest. They invite him to the UK when the western world is ablaze with anti-Trumpy protests. The UK establishment is not fond of Brexit and this will give their citizens a chance to protest both Brexit and Trumpy. Conflating the two is exactly what the UK establishment would have ordered.

[MissKat]

11. Don't let his plane even land

Now that would be brilliant. Make it fly back to Washington.

[Pachamama]

12. Guess the Brits don't like Miss May's new love interest

...they look so cute together those two the last few days...



Thank you to our friends everywhere who realize what is happening and are speaking out as we are...

[Dustlawyer]

13. How do you like it now that the whole world despises you?

We all see how the Donald has no clothes!!!

ugh!

[smirkymonkey]

14. The idiot will probably think they are there to welcome him.

That's how delusional he is.

[Donkees]

15. :)

[zentrum]

19. She needs to

.....cancel her meeting with him that's coming up. As of today, with his Muslim ban, it will be like appeasing you know who--that WW2 aggressor whose name begins with "H".

[dflprincess]

34. I'm so looking forward to the Queen snubbing him

(especially after how she appeared to like the Obamas so much).

In a very regal way, of course.

If nothing else she can always use her age as an excuse to skip meeting him and send a lesser royal to do it. Perhaps someone who is like 50th in line for the throne.

(I have an 94 year old aunt who says age is a great excuse to get out of doing something you don't want to do, no one dares question you.)

[zentrum]

39. Hope you're right--

....that she'll snub him.

[Myrddin]

22. Just make it look like an...

...accident 007.

Failing that, just slot the c#nt in public, I've already pardoned you!

[Hugin]

16. I hope they come through with this...

I can't take another turd in my Advent Calendar.

[JTFrog]

17. K&R n/t

[zentrum]

18. Despises!

Can't wrap my mind around how Nazi-istic the country is becoming. Very damaging, on every level.

[Skittles]

20. GET TO IT, BRITS!!

I know they will not let us down

[Blue Idaho]

21. Theresa May needs to be careful here.

As a party appointed PM who was not elected by the people she is already on thin ice. If she thinks she can play Maggie Thatcher to Trump's Ronald Reagan she needs to remember how that all ended.

"Maggie Maggie Maggie - Daed Dead Dead!"

[dflprincess]

36. And Blair playing Bush's lap dog did work out well for Tony. nt

[Justice]

23. I feel good that we helped the world know it was right to object - that Americans don't agree

[trueblue2007]

24. FRANCE & GERMANY ARE YELLING AT HIM. the world hates Trump

FRANCE & GERMANY ARE YELLING AT HIM. the world hates Trump and THE WORLD NOW HATES THE US. Thanks Trump, The USA is losing friends left and right.


I hate you also Donald Rump.

[bdamomma]

28. Can't they arrest him when

he lands on their soul?

[Lifelong Protester]

25. The Whole World is Watching!

And they don't like what they see.

[bdamomma]

27. What is our Congress

fucking doing or saying?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Only someone as stupid as tRump could get best allies so angry at the USA. . . . nt

[bdamomma]

29. Aren't Americans in the streets now???

this stupid sick twisted madman needs to be arrested!!!!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

30. Great, he'll invent lies about how small the crowds are.

That man has some serious crowd-envy.

[Momgonepostal]

37. Or he'll say they were all cheering for him! nt

[treestar]

35. Wonderful

May he meet protesters wherever he goes!

[pfitz59]

41. "The Man Who Would be King" will be schooled

by a real life Queen...