PM refuses to revoke Trump state visit despite far right retweets

To my mind, the special relationship is over until he goes.

Trump did a politically incorrect tweet -- must be time for us to abandon our entire foreign policy.

Yup. Virtue signalling gone mad.

Speaking of which, one wonders why the PM felt the need to comment on the re-tweets at all. Any sane person would just completely ignore anything tweeted by him, no matter what it contained.

Although his views are abhorrent, we shouldn't block free speech...it's a slippery slope. Perhaps we could have a vote on whether Trump's visit should be cancelled?

Although his views are abhorrent, we shouldn't block free speech...it's a slippery slope. Perhaps we could have a vote on whether Trump's visit should be cancelled?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42172032
"later a Downing Street spokesman said: "British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents - decency tolerance and respect." He added: "It is wrong for the president to have done this." Downing Street also made clear that the invitation to the US president to make a state visit to the UK still stood."

So essentially what the PM wants to say is "Oh, that's a bit rude, but I don't really care. I still love you Donald, please give me a trade deal so I can look like I'm making a success of Brexit while I'm flushing Britain's economic future down the toilet through a hard Brexit in order to satisfy my hard-right backbenchers and avoid a leadership challenge with Boris or JRM"

Theresa May is right to condemn him, but it's not good to make a mountain out of a molehill over a few retweets. We have a great relationship with the US, and we should strengthen our ties with the US, and not weaken them.

Here is a thorough analysis of the content of the videos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/29/the-murky-origins-of-the-britain-first-videos-trump-retweeted/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_tweet-830am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.90f011a9f221

In all cases, the far right are distorting the context and meaning of the events depicted.

The President of the United States is always welcome in the UK, despite what the bleeding heart liberals may think. I know that if it were up to them, he would be banned from coming to the UK! But, thankfully it's not going to happen.

Theresa May is right to condemn him, but it's not good to make a mountain out of a molehill over a few retweets. We have a great relationship with the US, and we should strengthen our ties with the US, and not weaken them.

Because the WaPo is the beacon of unbiased truth isn't it? They have a hate boner for Trump so don't post propaganda.

The tweets he retweeted were in criticism of Islamic extremism? Is it wrong for us to criticize them for the acts they committed in those videos?