Well, I guess they're free to ban whomever they like. In Savage's case, it seems a bit silly. Of the sixteen people on the Home Office's banned list, seven are American. They really don't like us much, do they.

Why would they ban somebody who tells it like it is.

He is quite a crazy man.Maybe they want the country to remain sane.

No. Definitely not. Makes me glad that we still have free speech here in the USA. I don't believe that it's guaranteed over there. He may be a little bombastic, but Michael Savage is one of the few sane people in the media that speaks the Truth.

Probably not. The man clearly has an arsehole tight enough to cause him discomfort and make him sputter hateful screeds into poor American radio waves...but is this cause to ban him? I'm not sure he is "inciting hatred" more than he is trying to make money out of people that buy into his bullshit. By putting him on this list, we have probably helped him out with that.

Absolutely not. The more time he spends in countries other than the United States, the higher our collective IQ and standard measures of sanity rise. If Britain would let him in, THEY could prosecute him for being a hate spewing disgusting bigot. Which would have been fun to watch but, on the other hand, I'm an American, he's an American and we have our free speech principles. Which in my case stretches to protecting his right to express his opinion. His conception of free speech can be pretty accurately described as encouraging other people to burn a cross on my front yard. He's a disgusting excuse for a human being, and he and the people who listen to him ought to be ashamed of themselves. But they have a Constitutionally protected right to be hateful morons.

Not sure what the English rules are for free speech but it was a bad decision - and has since been rescinded.

I will go against the grain and say yes... it is rare that I agree with the awful woman that is Jacqui Smith but I quite agree with her commentry on the reasons behind the decision: "I think it's important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it's a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won't be welcome in this country...Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can't live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you from this country". She is right, coming to the UK is a privilege and - while I am a great believer in the free movement of people - if this free movement may result in a negative affect upon the country by breeding hatred, a hatred that is quite the opposite of the values of the country, then I do not support it in any but the most necessary of situations. It's our country and if we want to ban a foreigner for entering due to his hateful attitude, then we can. Nobody is taking away his right to free speech, not in the slightest, but we are just upholding our right to decide who can and cannot enter our country.

Well he is a crazy hatemonger - but Britain has a great many of those already - so what difference is one more going to make? I think the ban is an overkill - but then again - there may be stuff about Savage that we don't know - he could have links with right wing extremist organizations which are banned in the UK..I'm sure there's more to this than meets the eye.

Guess all those immigrants who try to impose their culture, values, attitude should be banned. They are losers in their own country, go out for work to earn money, when their stomachs are filled to the throat they start barking like filthy street dogs.

It's thier House, we should ban most of the people we allow into our house, we might have a safer cleaner house! Or wallet might gain weight! lol

no i dont but i think they had to because if they let him in they would proberly be contradicting the laws againt insiteing hate but i dont know enough about him to be sure.