Reading that story again, the block came from the US CBP

i.e. Customs and Border Protection, who presumably would have been fully briefed about the XO.

Maybe they've responded to all the criticism by softening it without announcing it or something.

I agree with you that not having Saudi on the list makes no sense whatsoever, however you interpret the ban per se,

Posted By: Old Man on January 29th 2017 at 21:24:14

Message Thread

Gov statement: (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 20:43:56
- They really don't have a clue what they're doing, do they? Should really be Rowan Atkinson (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Jan 29, 21:42:42
  - Shambles (n/m) (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 21:43:40
- Defo a hydra (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jan 29, 21:35:11
  - Talking to itself is usually a give-away too.. (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Jan 29, 21:38:56
    - Probably turn out it was tudders all along (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jan 29, 21:52:12
      - SMALL. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Jan 29, 22:24:22
        
        soz (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jan 30, 00:32:52
- Better to post some ignorant dull faux outrage than read facts (n/m) (General Chat) - wolfio, Jan 29, 21:22:21
- May is scared of him imo, she doesn't really believe what he'd doing is wrong... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 29, 20:59:52
  - She is desperate to leverage his mistrust of the EU and liking for Brexit (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 29, 21:05:48
    - And he wants to WIN again (n/m) (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 21:08:13
      - Oh yes - always! (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 29, 21:10:14
        
        I wouldn't break my morality if I were here and thus stand down, she has none. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 29, 21:17:16
        
        Me neither, and negotiating from strength rather than weakness tends to go better too (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 29, 21:20:56
        
        But how do you negotiate with a man who's deluded? Better to put a bit... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 29, 21:24:42
        
        That's the problem. We, as a piss ant little, isolated nation have absolutely (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 29, 21:24:23
        
        We have 5 other larger markets, but hey ho. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 29, 21:25:48
- To me, the fact you keep coming back to clarify it and defend your previous position (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Jan 29, 20:58:47
  - Because money is more important than life to some. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 29, 21:01:14
    - Don't mean our Boris on here, dunn't know him, but Tories seem to think that way. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 29, 21:03:09
- ...only what it says is not true (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 29, 20:52:16
  - That instance is Jimmy Carter's fault. (n/m) (General Chat) - harry boulders, Jan 29, 20:54:24
  - Didn't get to the US. So more than likely Costa Rica not understanding the (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 20:53:57
    - It was an American airline (United) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 29, 20:54:49
      - Well seems they got it wrong. One suspects the government are more likely to get it right (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 20:56:51
        
        Reading that story again, the block came from the US CBP (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 29, 21:24:14
- Pretty sure no one thought they wouldn't be. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Jan 29, 20:48:24
  - That certainly wasn't the case down there (n/m) (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 20:49:13
- Get in. The problem is over (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Jan 29, 20:46:33
- Telling bit at the bottom: (General Chat) - mr carra, Jan 29, 20:46:19
  - His job isnt it? Good news though isn't it? It appears media got a bit over the top (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 20:48:37
    - So if your common or garden Syrian, Somalian or Lybian terrorist (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 29, 21:18:09
      - Which will be shown by a stamp in their passport and logged on the system (n/m) (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 21:20:01
        
        One would certainly hope so. Will it stop American teenagers (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 29, 21:22:43
        
        One suspects not. They need to sort that out too. Probably more importantly. (n/m) (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 21:25:30
        
        Exactly, but the chances of that seem pretty close to zero now. (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 29, 21:27:54
        
        It would be near on impossible to implement, there's so many firearms in circulation (General Chat) - Boris, Jan 29, 21:31:00

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