"As far as the petition is concerned the heartlands of this campaign as seen from the petitions map is Oxford, Cambridge and central London – hardly representative of the Muslim community of Britain." Unfortunately, this statement renders the rest of your post irrelevant; a clumsy attempt to deflect debate from the core issue at the heart of the petition, the fact people don't want to give legitimacy to an authoritarian who has promoted his family and white supremacists to the White staff and who for many represents a return to the darker politics of the past, as he demonstrated in his campaign. It's utterly irrelevant where the "campaign heartlands" are or what the demographic of the signatories of the petition are; this is an exercise in democracy and the debate is going ahead, exactly as it should.
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