This is why being banned from entering the UK is not the moral stigma that many on the Left would like you to assume it to be. The fact is that the UK Home Office is completely cowed by Leftist and Islamic pressure groups inside the country. Those groups brought the full weight of their influence to bear so as to achieve the banning of Pamela Geller and me, with the objective of demonstrating that the UK was just as committed to fighting non-Muslim as well as Muslim “extremists.” Of course, the idea that resisting jihad makes one the equivalent of a jihadi is monstrously ridiculous, but that for another day.

This short list shows that who gets into Britain and who doesn’t is based entirely on who has friends and political allies in high places, and who doesn’t.

“As the petition to ban Donald Trump reaches 400,000, here’s who has been let into Britain,” by John Chapman, Express, December 11, 2015: