Donald Trump should be charged with incitement to racial hatred if he enters the UK, Parliament hears

Parliament heard today how Donald Trump's official invite to the UK should be cancelled or otherwise the US President should face UK laws against incitement to racial hatred on arrival. The House of Commons reacted to Donald Trump reposting islamophobic tweets from far right islamophobic extremists Britain First today, and the President's rebuke of the Prime Minister after in a rare condemnation of Trump, Number 10's spokesperson had said Trump’s actions were wrong. Trump had angrily hit back at Theresa...

Dennis Skinner labels Donald Trump a “fascist” amid Commons revolt on state visit

Labour MP Dennis Skinner labelled Donald Trump a fascist in parliament today and put pressure on the government front bench to cancel the President's state visit to the UK. The comments come following a wide-scale backlash from MPs who have demanded Theresa May withdraws the invitation, saying he is "not welcome". Trump posted a series of Islamaphobic tweets yesterday connected to far-right party Britain First. Despite causing international outrage the President's press secretary defended his actions, saying "whether it’s a...

White House defends unverified Trump hate tweets – saying the “threat is real”

Donald Trump's press secretary has defended the President's choice to use unverified hate Tweets on his social media profile, saying "whether it's a real video, the threat is real". Trump tweeted a succession of Islamaphobic videos from the Deputy Leader of Britain First today - a move that has already being condemned by World leaders. But Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders maintained that the videos did not need to be verified, claiming the media was focusing on "the wrong thing". "I'm...

WATCH: Emily Thornberry reassures Damien Green that she won’t bring up extreme porn on his computer before devastating PMQs performance

https://www.facebook.com/NyeBevanNews/videos/2036043049942957/ Despite an investigation into extreme pornography found on his office computer amid the sleaze allegations that have embroiled 11%r of sitting Conservative MP's, Theresa May left Damien Green to field Prime Minister's Questions today. Emily Thornberry who was standing in for the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn put in a bravura performance in the House of Commons. She started by asking Damien Green if he was happy to be held to the same standards in Government that he...

Commons Speaker says Government faces contempt of parliament unless full Brexit impact files disclosed

David Davis ordered to surrender unedited full Brexit impact reports Brexit Secretary accused of contempt of parliament MPs say contempt could lead to vote of no confidence in Government Reports emerge suggesting Government agrees Brexit divorce bill of up to £49bn with EU Britain to pay Brexit bill for decades "I did not say that it was my advice that the motion was binding or effective; as Speaker, I ruled that it was binding or effective,” House of Commons Speaker...

Parliament hears criminal trials in jeopardy, children wrongly taken away from parents in growing forensic services privatisation crisis

BREAKING: Shocking details of the scandal behind the urgent review of 10,000 criminal cases possibly tainted by faulty or manipulated forensic data have been aired in an emergency parliamentary debate. Westminster heard how the Government had been warned that “murders and rapists will go free” because of their policy of privatising forensic services. Judges’ adoption and fostering decisions have relied on questionable forensic data too. “What assurance can the minister give that children haven’t been removed under false forensic evidence?”...

Research links Brexit vote to xenophobia and narcissism

British citizens who fear immigrants and thought they threatened their values and way of life were more likely to have voted Brexit And the results, partly driven by narcissism, were regardless of their age, gender or level of education. The research, published in Frontiers in Psychology, identified 'collective narcissism' as a new voting variable. Scientists from the UK, Poland and Portugal measured the effect of xenophobia on voting behaviour, and found that it was strongly related to voting in favour...

Caroline Lucas: The government has been “backpedalling” since the sentience vote

Caroline Lucas says the government has been "backpedalling" since they voted to reject the inclusion of animal sentience in the European Union Withdrawal Bill. Environment Secretary Michael Gove has hit out at social media for "corrupting and distorting" political reporting since the vote last week, but according to Green MP Lucas it is an attempt to backpeddle on the initial Commons vote. "What I was told in the chamber was that they had no need to take any account of my...

Rebekah Brooks told Cameron’s Conservatives: I’m running the government now

News International CEO Rebekah Brooks told Ken Clarke that she was running the government with David Cameron just days after a dodgy deal helped the Tories win the 2010 General Election. Clarke, who served as Cameron’s Justice Secretary, said Cameron may have done “some sort of deal” with The Sun’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, to gain support ahead of the 2010 general election. In a meeting shortly after a victory, in which the Tories secured a majority in parliament, Clarke was told by Brooks that...

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