Banning Trump from The UK?

Many people I have spoken to recently have gleefully said how they have signed that petition to ban Donald Trump from our country... They seem utterly surprised that I find this petition abhorrent.

This kind of arbitrary illiberal meddling demand is why the right don't feel they need to step up and defend themselves. All they have to do is go along with the puppet show for as long as people are stupid enough to focus on this rubbish instead of the horrendous politicking that they are up to.

Call Trump dangerous if you like, I can certainly see him emboldening many in the right... But that's exactly what we need! He wont be appealing to the centre; they are the demographic that decides elections and if Trump makes them feel silly for voting right wing then they will be less likely to hand the Tories yet more license to abuse their power. 

The reaction I would expect from politicians here is to distance themselves from the dumb things Trump says, and that means affirmatively declaring things that are contrary to their actions. Which makes it so much easier to show middle-ground voters that they are being lied to, and who it is doing the lying.

When you consider this it seems madness to me that we should actually want to instead make the illiberal demand to this illiberal government that people can be banned from the country because of their political opinions... Things they say, not do! Words, spoken out loud no less! Oh the horror!

WE REALLY DON'T WANT THAT TO BECOME ACCEPTABLE! 

Daesh has to be destroyed... BUT...

Daesh has to be destroyed.

My concern is that it is a faction of cooperation, not enforcement.

Yes, they've moved onto enforcement of their ideology and that's why they are a problem for the world at large, but that isn't where they come from. It isn't like the usual despot whose power comes from the perception of power they already have, it comes from there being a school of thought within Islam that what they are doing is the right thing to do.

It's easy to de-claw the beast, we can easily say "think of those that would die if we didn't" to justify ourselves but once we take out the enforcement based action that is Daesh itself, how do we stop this hydra from forming another head?

History shows time and time again that strategies based upon enforcement will lose against strategies based upon cooperation. It was said during the Iraq occupation that the real war was for hearts and minds, and that goes for this a thousand fold.

We have to take actions that address the underlying problems; the reason Daesh hate the refugees fleeing the region is that, in their minds, all "true" Muslims should be flocking to them, the Quran is quite clear on that apparently. The fact of the refugees running in exactly the opposite direction, whilst militias including women fight against them and win at least some of the time, that's what damages Daesh, not bombs.