Whether one reveres or loathes him, Donald J Trump is President of the United States, the most steadfast ally of the United Kingdom and a nation with which we have the tightest possible bonds. As such, President Trump is entitled to be shown at least the respect which any visiting head of state might expect.
Sadly, almost shockingly, on visiting our shores the President has been greeted with some appalling rudeness and incivility, exclusively from the left wing of our political establishment. Assorted individuals, most notably the egregious Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, the rabble rousing Jeremy Corbyn, and the increasingly batty Vince Cable have all refused invitations to attend a State Banquet, hosted by the Queen, in honour of the President. Bercow has refused to allow Mr Trump to address Parliament because he doesn't like the President's political views. Corbyn has chosen to show his support for anti-Trump protesters by addressing a street gathering of them, while Cable has opined that we all know the President's visit is about 'fixing Brexit'; given that the invitation to the President was issued when the question of Brexit was barely out of nappies, Cable's opinion seems like ludicrous nonsense. Reporters for the BBC have shown an almost universal lack of respect for the President by the nature, tone and tenor of their questions and comments, the only one who made an attempt to be even-handed being Norman Smith, perhaps and older and wiser head.
Also crawling out of the muddy slime, Sadiq Khan, rumoured to be a politician of importance though whether or not he is may be a matter of conjecture, has made various nasty and entirely disrespectful remarks about Mr Trump, and then, together with his left wing buddies, exhibited mock outrage when the President has responded in like fashion. Reporting on this childish spat, the media, led by the BBC, has largely ignored Khan's nastiness and concentrated instead on the President's responses, making it seem that it is he who is to blame on account of his 'right wing' views. Khan has gone on to call the President of the United States a "poster boy for the far right"; far right is, of course, a euphemism for all those nasty groupings such as NAZIs and Fascists, and an epithet used by the left as a label for anything or anyone with whom they disagree.
In a continuation of this left wing assault on the President, the General Secretary of the TUC, Frances O'Grady, another left wing mouth, has called Trump a "dirty old man" when addressing a crowd of scruffy herberts at a street gathering in Whitehall. To my knowledge, Mr Trump has not replied to this rude and offensive remark but then why would he ? Ms O'Grady is not exactly a shining light in the left wing firmament, more a dim candle. Other, even less significant, figures have attempted to grab the headlines by launching or displaying offensive balloons and blimps in and over London, in reality displaying little more than their own prejudices, bigotry, bad taste and stupidity.
I don't recall there being this huge outpouring of rudeness, offensiveness, prejudice and bigotry when other, far more objectionable national leaders have visited the United Kingdom. Heads of State from Russia and China, two of the most tyrannical nations, may have drawn a few protestors out but nothing on the same scale as for President Trump's visit; of course, extreme left wing dictators are always more acceptable than moderately right wing democratically elected leaders, at least to those most prone to demonstrating their moral rectitude, that is, the left wing rabble rousers so beloved of the likes of Corbyn, Cable, Khan, O'Grady and the rest.
It really is time for the Right Wing to wake up to this constant stream of bigotry that is emanating from the left, and to the 'liberal elite' which does everything it can to appease the demands of the left in order to retain power. If it continues to sit on its hands and does nothing, we are heading for bloody revolution.
