It appears that British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has played his Trump card - literally.
In a speech at Chatham House on foreign policy, Corbyn lambasted President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May's hands-on closeness to him:
Britain deserves better than simply outsourcing our country’s security and prosperity to the whims of the Trump White House. While Theresa May seeks to build a coalition of risk and insecurity with Donald Trump, a Labour government will refocus Britain’s influence towards cooperation, peaceful settlements, and social justice.
Heading for electoral disaster, at this point, what does Corbyn have left to lose? Far better for Corbyn to set his sites on Trump than have to talk about snubbing war veterans at Labour Party rallies where soldiers are booed. After all, Trump is not a popular man in the UK. In a poll released in February by The Guardian, 65% of voters called him a threat to international stability while 50% of voters called him dangerous. Donald Trump might very well be the one man even less popular in Britain than Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn has long odds, but if he can convince the British public that May is "a poodle" of Trump then he has a shot at moving into Number 10 Downing Street. The election will take place on June 8th, less than four weeks away. As the late Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously put it, "A week in politics is a lifetime." Four weeks might be a millennium.
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