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To: moose07
What is it like around Wembley Stadium?

All I know about it is that is where The Chiefs beat The Lions back in 2015.

What does it normally take to get banned from speaking in Parliament?

19 posted on 02/12/2017 8:00:12 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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To: KC_Lion
I worked around wembley area for six weeks back in 92-93, it was eventful to say the least. Anything not physically immovable developed legs. The Works Trucks had to be left guarded in a locked compound during the day, after dropping the kit and workforce off at the site. Generators and cable winches where chained to the support vehicle whilst in use.
Any hand tools had to be kept on you.

The food in the Cafes was good.
Getting rid of our commercial waste was easy (Cable sheathing)....just leave it in bags unattended. The company that was contracted to remove it complained that there was nothing for them to remove...we'd been gone for an hour.
The locals will take the whole bag and examine the contents later. I kid you not.
I would imagine that the area is under sharia law by now...

The only people I've ever seen speak in Parliament are politicians, so no dead if there are any criteria on being banned. Apart from being who you say you are.....

20 posted on 02/12/2017 8:34:40 AM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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To: KC_Lion

Rather too much is being made of the Parliamentary address issue. There’s no great tradition of US Presidents doing this on state visits. It’s only ever happened three times - Reagan, Clinton and Obama. Make of that trio what you will...


22 posted on 02/12/2017 9:50:31 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: KC_Lion
Again, this 'banned from Parliament' thing is to a great extent, 'fake news'. Part of the media - mostly the anti-Trump media but other organisations seem to have swallowed their spin as well - have turned this into a huge story far beyond what is justified.

What is true is that Speaker Bercow has chosen to insult President Trump, and he does have the power - probably - to stop President Trump speaking at one venue, Westminster Hall, which has occasionally been used for addresses to Parliament. He doesn't have the same power to block President Trump from speaking at the Royal Gallery, which is more commonly used for that purpose, or the Banqueting House which is also a suitable location. He has not banned President Trump from speaking. Nobody has.

It was never at all certain that President Trump would be invited to address Parliament on his first official visit to the United Kingdom, especially so soon after his election. President Clinton addressed Parliament on his third official visit to the United States. So did President Obama. It's true that President Reagan addressed Parliament on his first visit, but he had already been in office a year and a half at that point, and such visits were rarer back then.

The media has spun Bercow's personal rejection of the idea of a speech into a ban by Parliament. And made it look like if no invitation is made it must be because of that ban - rather than consider it was quite likely that an address to Parliament was never planned to be part of this trip. If you go back and look at the press reports from late January, and early February before Bercow decided to speak, you'll find speculation about the possibility that President Trump might be invited to address Parliament, but certainly nothing firm to suggest he would be. This only became a story when Bercow decided to go after the headlines.

23 posted on 02/12/2017 11:39:07 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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