We should let Donald Trump come to the UK – so we can let him know what the British people think of him

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Over 1 million people have signed a petition against Donald Trump making a State Visit to the UK

I note a call to boycott America in response to President Trump's actions. Realistically, we cannot enter into commerce-based aggression against a major trading partner. Equally realistically, now the wrong-headed muddled invitation for the man to visit has been tendered and accepted, it is virtually inconceivable that it will be rescinded (although I will surely sign the appropriate petition).

However, the most practical show of public disapproval would be to hit him where it hurts most – his overinflated, fragile ego.

Therefore I invite the populations of London and Scotland (to our shame, one of the nations that engendered him) to simply not turn up to celebrate his pomp and glory. Simply boycott the parades. We already know that it will be stated by Trump News that more than 75 million people will have turned up – the biggest crowd in history, ever, period. But the man himself will see just what we think of him, his alternative facts notwithstanding.

Stuart Baker
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If Donald Trump makes a state visit to the UK, maybe he could be told that the Queen has been unavoidably detained and that Prince Charles will be his host!

Sarah Pegg
East Sussex

Please, if Donald Trump does visit the UK, put your coverage in a short paragraph at the bottom of page 11!

Ann Smith
​Southport

The hypocrisy over Trump's state visit is palpable

Jeremy Corbyn and a million others question the state visit later this year of President Trump (long after the Muslim ban will have been lifted). Were they all as vociferous in the lead-up to the state visit a year or so ago for the President of China – a country where human rights abuses are in excess of anything Trump could imagine?

Edward Thomas
​Eastbourne

We should have a referendum over Trump

Less than one-sixtieth of the UK population has signed a petition against a state visit by Donald Trump; this is the vocal minority. The only way to find out what the British people really think is to have a referendum.

The last time that happened things didn't go too well for the liberal left who found that they were out of touch with the feelings of a sizeable portion of the population.

Andy Brown
Derby

Theresa May’s response to Trump is shameful

Immediate condemnation should have been the unequivocal response of any Western democracy to Trump's latest shameful affront to decency. The fact that it has been “clarified” that the impact on certain UK nationals will be less adverse than at first thought is irrelevant. Theresa May’s belated statements are weak and pathetic. If the US no longer speaks up for the free world then the UK must.

Debbie Stamper
Epsom

The British people are not by nature xenophobic bigots. So May's inability to recognize and immediately condemn Trump's latest attack on liberal democracy is more than a simple diplomatic failure. She has failed our great country. She shames us all.

Mark Grey
London

Is this really the best time to leave the EU?

In June 2016 the British public voted by a small majority to leave the European Union. They did that based on a very unclear understanding of what Brexit would entail, and also the world situation at the time. However, the world has changed a lot since June and we now find ourselves having to align with an increasingly xenophobic United States run by a leader whom no one can trust. We also find ourselves making overtures to an equally dubious regime in Turkey.

In view of this, all MPs of whatever party have a duty to ask themselves whether the British public are now best served by leaving the EU at this time. MPs are far better placed to understand the consequences of this than most of their constituents, and their constituents expect them to make up to date decisions on the public’s behalf. Given where we are now, do the majority of MPs really think that our long term interests are best served by leaving the EU and aligning ourselves with the US and Turkey? All MPs ought to be given a free vote uninfluenced by the June referendum result or party whips.

Charles Tricks
Bristol

Hurrah for Corbyn – he has realised that democracy trumps socialism

The claim made by the critics of Jeremy Corbyn's stance on Brexit that he is betraying the grassroots whom they represent is both misguided and arrogant. I must be amongst tens of thousands of his supporters who feel that, between a rock and hard place as the Labour party is, its leader has made the right and principled call. To go against the referendum result would not only have finished his personal reputation as a man of integrity but it would have set an extremely dangerous precedent available to anyone who wishes to oppose decisions they do not like.

The assertion that socialism takes precedence over democracy shows a woeful ignorance of its history in the last century when it was clearly shown that socialism without democracy was a tragic nonsense.

David Parker
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Brexit is far worse than Trump

I disagree with the comment in your editorial that the election of Trump was more momentous than the result of the referendum and the choice of a hard Brexit by the Government. Trump will be gone relatively soon, and may well not succeed in making any lasting changes but the Brexit referendum will affect all of Europe for the foreseeable future.

Dale Thomson
Winchester

Trump cannot sugarcoat this – it is a Muslim ban

The ban on immigration from seven countries by President Trump is not only unconstitutional but utterly nonsensical. Trump claims that "This is not about religion – this is about terror and keeping our country safe.”

However, of those from the Muslim-majority countries of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, none were involved in the 9/11 attacks in the US. Indeed, it has been reported that 80 per cent of terrorist attacks in the US have been undertaken by US citizens.

This a Muslim ban, nothing more and nothing less, truly contemptible and reprehensible. Trump should wake up to the mass protests and court rulings, and reverse this executive order.

Alex Orr
Edinburgh

Why are we in the UK, as a Government and country, not railing against Donald Trump and his preposterous order to prevent people from mainly Muslim countries entry to the US? Theresa May should stand up and be counted as vociferously against it on our behalf.

It is a travesty of people's right to freedom and should be fought at every step. Added to which, it gives Isis the best reason ever to attack America.

Can no one stop him? Are we truly looking at the end of days? I despair.

Fiona Coombes
Clitheroe

The treatment of racehorses is despicable

RIP, Many Clouds, the former Grand National winner who collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack at Cheltenham this weekend. Of course, it didn't take a crystal ball to predict that he would die while racing, given that he'd been raced nearly to death at last year's Grand National and had needed oxygen and treatment immediately afterwards just to stay alive.

His death will by no means be the last in the racing industry, which routinely pushes horses beyond the breaking point. No decent person should tolerate allowing animals to suffer and even pay the ultimate price for humans' cruel pursuits.

Jennifer White – Assistant Press Officer, Peta UK
London

Twitter is a breeding ground for idiocy

Twitting would be a more apt word for using Twitter. Tweeting is too twee for the uses to which it is now put.

Steve Ford
Haydon Bridge