Labour leader warns that election must be 'a wake-up call'
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has responded to Donald Trump’s election as US president, describing his approach to ‘the big questions’ as ‘clearly wrong’ and sending solidarity to ‘a nation of migrants, innovators and democrats.’
Here is his full statement:
“Many in Britain and elsewhere will be understandably shocked by Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, the rhetoric around it and what the election result means for the rest of the world, as well as America.
Trump’s election is an unmistakable rejection of a political establishment and an economic system that simply isn’t working for most people. It is one that has delivered escalating inequality and stagnating or falling living standards for the majority, both in the US and Britain.
This is a rejection of a failed economic consensus and a governing elite that has been seen not to have listened. And the public anger that has propelled Donald Trump to office has been reflected in political upheavals across the world.
But some of Trump’s answers to the big questions facing America, and the divisive rhetoric around them, are clearly wrong.
I have no doubt, however, that the decency and common sense of the American people will prevail, and we send our solidarity to a nation of migrants, innovators and democrats.
After this latest global wake up call, the need for a real alternative to a failed economic and political system could not be clearer.
That alternative must be based on working together, social justice and economic renewal, rather than sowing fear and division. And the solutions we offer have to improve the lives of everyone, not pit one group of people against another.
Americans have made their choice. The urgent necessity is now for us all to work across continents to tackle our common global challenges: to secure peace, take action on climate change and deliver economic prosperity and justice.”
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10 Responses to “Jeremy Corbyn: Trump is ‘clearly wrong’ on the big questions”
Michael WALKER
“This is a rejection of a failed economic consensus”
Yes Trump is going to abolish Obamacare and cut Government spending.
So Corbyn is in favour of dismantling the NHS and cutting spending?
Man is out of his depth and speaking rubbish.
Mick
Indeed. The man could say something balanced about Trump. After all, like Trump, Corbyn says George Bush lied in order to go to war in Iraq!
Instead, he backs the very Islamic extremists that the American public voted for Trump about. New kind of politics, indeed. And the kind making Trump a winner and lefties the losers.
Imran Khan
What has happened with Trump’s victory and with Brexit is that the worms have turned. Forty years, at least, of political correctness are now biting the liberal establishment in the backside and still they don’t know what is going on. For years the Guardianistas and the rest of the left denied that white girls were being abused in Rotherham and other places north of Watford. It was, they cried, Islamophobia. Then of course not only did it turn out to be true but the sheer scale of the abuse was staggering.
The same group are for ” No Borders” and ” Nobody is illegal” which means of course that as soon as the border control was abolished most of Africa would be in the UK as soon as they could borrow the money for a ticket.
This same group argues for quotas in employment, housing, political representation and every other aspect of our lives to the detriment of the white working class. Is it any wonder that that class is now abandoning Labour?
Mick
WELL SAID, Imran.
The old PC tropes, manias, prejudice and failures of old have run their course. Lefties can whine that reactionary forces have swept Trump to power but who DROVE them to vote Trump?
After all, the US public gave Obama TWO terms to prove himself. EXTREMELY generous. Now they make their feelings of betrayal felt.
I’m waiting for the first high-up Dem – as Ed Miliband’s number one fan did – to say ‘Clinton/Sanders is just too effing good for this country.’ That’s their attitude.
Chris Kitcher
Great words fr the educated but why not put it more simply so that the masses can understand it?
“In Britain we are gobsmacked at Trumps win. But its happened because people are fed up with politics and politicians. We’ve all been made poorer, except the bosses, and it seems that this is not going to stop any time soon. Trumps solutions will only make worse for the majority of us by fueling hatred and fear and it is only by working together can we stop the likes of Trump and politicians like him.”
This is the way the Red Tops would reort it and look at the support they command