'Leave' campaign wants Leave supporter Marine Le Pen banned from the UK

[muriel_volestrangler]

As they say, you couldn't make it up - just for added irony, Gisela Stuart was born in Germany, and moved to Britain when she was 19, just after Britain joined the EEC.

Marine Le Pen should be barred from UK, says Vote Leave

A senior figure in the campaign for UK exit from the EU has urged the Home Office to bar French far right leader Marine Le Pen from visiting Britain.

Vote Leave co-chairman Gisela Stuart said Ms Le Pen held "divisive and inflammatory" views and her visit would not be "conducive to the public good".

The president of the French National Front, who backs Brexit, is expected to travel to the UK in the next few weeks.
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In a letter to Home Secretary Theresa May sent on Friday, Ms Stuart said the National Front leader "has previously made many divisive and inflammatory comments, including comparing Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation of France".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36123014

Later in the interview she (Theresa May) said the fact that Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP chairing the official Out campaign, had urged her to block Marine Le Pen, the far-right French politician, from entering the UK proved ministers do control Britain’s borders.

“Contrary to what I think you were trying to say earlier, the fact that she’s written to me to suggest that I should stop somebody coming into the country rather does suggest we have control of our borders,” Mrs May said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/24/britain-has-control-of-borders-theresa-may-insists-despite-3m-mi/

Always embarrassing when the racist relative wants to come and visit - maybe 'Leave' should just turn out the lights and pretend they're not home?

[non sociopath skin]

1. Pesky furriners!

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[LeftishBrit]

2. Maybe Gisela Stuart should reflect on the company her group is keeping..

Trump also backs Brexit!

As regards EU immigrants who back Brexit or UKIP, it's not uncommon. Nigel Farage's wife is German. For some time, one of my UKIP MEPs - she later switched to the Tories - was Marta Andreasen, a Spaniard, who had worked for Price Waterhouse Cooper, but otherwise had little obvious previous connection to the UK.

I often think it's ironic that our most xenophobic types tend to express great admiration for the Queen (of German and Danish descent, and married to a Greek) and St George (from Turkey I believe; of Greek and Middle Eastern origin).

[LeftishBrit]

3. BTW, I previously mainly associated Gisela Stuart with her being the only Labour MP who openly

supported Bush's re-election in 2004.

Neither Blair, nor most Tories, went as far as that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. To me, she is a member of the neocon Henry Jackson Society

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x13042

so it doesn't surprise me she supported Bush. Since it was founded, it's got worse - here was one of its academics, after he resigned:

No longer is it a centrist, bipartisan think-tank seeking to promote democratic geopolitics through providing sober, objective and informed analysis to policy-makers. Instead, it has become an abrasively right-wing forum with an anti-Muslim tinge, churning out polemical and superficial pieces by aspiring journalists and pundits that pander to a narrow readership of extreme Europhobic British Tories, hardline US Republicans and Israeli Likudniks.

https://greatersurbiton.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/alan-mendozas-putsch-in-the-henry-jackson-society/

And it's still churning out crap like 'The View from Britainistan'; Stuart is still on its 'Political Council'.

[non sociopath skin]

5. And the other "Labour" stalwart is Denis McShane? 'Nuff said.

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[T_i_B]

6. The amazing thing about that....

...is there there are still some people out there who think that Dennis MacShane is in any way somebody worth listening to.