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welcome to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Meyers and with me today our spiked columnist Ella Wheeling

Hi and another spike columnist Luke Gitos

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Trump's UK visit, decolonization, and voting in prisons.

President Trump has torn up international agreements on refugees.

He's incited hatred against Muslims.

He's directly attacked women's rights.

Completely volatile, unreliable and dangerous in the way that Trump is.

I am even more strongly opposed to an address by President Trump in Westminster Hall. Last week, Buckingham Palace announced that Donald Trump will be making a state visit to the UK in June, to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Lib Dem leader Vince cable

have voiced their opposition to the visit and have rejected the invitation to

attend a state banquet. Now plans for Trump to address Parliament look likely to be dropped after strong opposition from Speaker John Burco.

Ella, what do you make of these snubs?

It's ridiculous, really.

I mean, not least because Jeremy Corbyn, of all people, a politician who has got into so much trouble

for meeting with certain individuals, certain groups, who's been labeled everything from a terrorist sympathizer to a mad Marxist for his associations.

For him to, he knows the kind of the ridiculousness of that argument and yet he's making it against Trump.

I mean he's saying that he will not meet with the president because he's used racist and

misogynistic rhetoric. I mean we all know the arguments about Trump using that kind of

rhetoric. He is very strong worded at times. He can be pretty nasty about women

and racist, but he is a democratically elected president. He is the head of the United States, it's mad that they're

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