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from The Washington Post....The many insulting adjectives the British
Parliament used to describe Donald TrumpBy KARLA ADAM | 6:24PM EST - Monday, January 2016LONDON — During the three-hour debate here in Westminster Hall on whether to ban Donald Trump from the United Kingdom, many British lawmakers extended the hand of friendship.
Trump was invited to have a curry in the city of Bradford, where about a quarter of the population is Muslim, and go on a walkabout in the multi-ethnic area of Brixton, a neighborhood in south London. More than one politician invited him to come along for a visit to a mosque.
But British politicians were notably less courteous when searching for words to describe the Republican presidential front-runner, with lawmakers from across the political spectrum dishing up a dictionary's worth of insulting adjectives.
If Trump were to wander into one of the pubs in her constituency, the Conservative MP Victoria Atkins said, he should be prepared to be called a “wazzock” — British slang for an annoying person. (The Guardian explains that “wazzock” is a mild insult that can be “used on telly without frightening your gran.”) She said that banning Trump would be a disproportionate response but also said his call last month to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the the United States was “bonkers!”
The overall tone of the evening debate was civil and high-minded, with weighty issues thoughtfully discussed amid the name-calling.
And plenty of name-calling there was. Although Britons are normally famous for their understatement, they didn't appear to hold back during the debate, which was triggered after more than 575,000 people signed a petition on a parliamentary website calling to ban Trump from the U.K.
Gavin Robinson, a Northern Irish member of Parliament who said that Trump should be allowed to visit the U.K. so that people could challenge his views, nonetheless called him a “buffoon” and a “ridiculous xenophobe”.
Naz Shah, the Labour politician who invited Trump to join her for a curry, said he was a “demagogue who panders to people’s fears, rather than their strengths.”
To Marcus Fysh, a Conservative politician who said that banning Trump would be counterproductive, he was “the orange prince of American self-publicity.”
Labour shadow minister Jack Dromey, one of the few members of Parliament who argued in favor of the ban — Trump shouldn't be allowed within a thousand miles of the U.K., is how he put it — said that Trump was a “fool” but that he wasn't free to be a “dangerous fool in Britain.”
Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, another lawmaker who supported the ban, said that Britain needed to prevent “a poisonous, corrosive man from entering our country.”
Not everyone was scornful of the business tycoon. Philip Davies, a Conservative politician who didn't go so far as to agree with Trump's views on banning Muslims, praised him for being “straight-talking” and said that Britain needed more people who were less concerned about being politically correct.
It was advice that, arguably, wasn't needed in Westminster Hall on Monday night.• Griff Witte contributed to this report.• Karla Adam is a reporter in The Washington Post's London bureau. Before joining the Post in 2006, she worked as a freelancer in London for the New York Times and People magazine.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/18/the-many-insulting-adjectives-used-to-describe-donald-trump
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