Jeremy Corbyn will make anti-Trump speech at protest against President’s state visit marking D-day anniversary
The Labour leader is boycotting the state banquet in honour of the US President tonight
JEREMY Corbyn tonight sparked a furious backlash after he revealed he'll making a speech at an anti-Trump protest tomorrow.
The leftie Labour boss has boycotted this evening's state banquet in honour of Donald Trump's visit to the UK.
But he has decided to attend a huge demo in central London and will even speak to the crowds protesting against the President.
Mr Corbyn said the protest was "an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those he's attacked in America, around the world and in our own country".
Critics accused Mr Corbyn of being a "hypocrite" by publicly opposing Mr Trump when he didn't speak up against dictators visiting Britain.
And they also suggested he is disrespecting the veterans of D-day, whose 75th anniversary falls this week.
A spokesman for the Labour leader said: "Jeremy Corbyn will attend and speak at the demonstration tomorrow against President Donald Trump’s state visit."
Tory MP Michael Fabricant blasted: "What a hypocrite! Where was Corbyn when socialist dictators came to visit London?"
Senior MP Julian Lewis, chairman of the Commons' powerful Defence committee, even warned that Mr Corbyn’s actions risked endangering our crucial security ties with the US.
He told The Sun: “People have to ask themselves, ‘What is the likely impact of protests of this sort?’ If it is to weaken the Anglo-American alliance then the only people who will be pleased will be the enemies of this country.
“That’s the approach you have to take. People and governments who wish harm to the UK will rejoice at anything that tends to weaken the Anglo-American alliance. The involvement of America in our security arrangements - both our intelligence arrangements and the Nato treaty arrangements - is absolutely essential for the peace and prosperity of the UK.”
'BUFFOON' BLAST
Tory Johnny Mercer said: “The guy is a buffoon. I’m not sure he is worth the airtime. The US fought shoulder to shoulder with us for the freedoms and privileges he so quickly forgets in his pursuit of all things anarchic.”
And Australia’s former Foreign Minister accused Mr Corbyn of hypocrisy by pointing out he had attended the state banquet for China’s Premier Xi Jinping.
Alexander Downer tweeted: “I talked to @jeremycorbyn at the State Banquet for unelected Xi Jinping but he boycotts the elected @POTUS . What are the real values of the modern left.”
Piers Morgan added: "So, the man who wants to be Britain's next Prime Minister will publicly attack America's President during his state visit to honour the D-day heroes. Disgraceful."
Mr Trump is attending ceremonies to mark the D-day anniversary on Thursday along with the Queen and Theresa May.
Mr Corbyn also faced fury from Labour MPs after it emerged he had cancelled his scheduled meeting with MPs in Parliament because he wanted to visit Peterborough ahead of Thursday’s crunch by-election there.
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100,000 protesters are expected to flood Central London tomorrow for a massive march. Activists will fly a controversial "Baby Trump blimp" depicting the President in a nappy.
On his arrival in London this morning, Mr Trump hit out at Mayor Sadiq Khan following the pair's long-running feud.
But Mr Khan is staying away from tomorrow's protests which will be attended by Emily Thornberry as well as Mr Corbyn.
The Sun Says
DONALD Trump should refuse to rise to the bait of the Left’s pygmy politicians. Provoking the US President to anger is exactly what they want.
Their infantile abuse, virtue-signalling to the Corbynista mob on social media, does not deserve the oxygen of publicity his retaliation gives it.
It was once a caricature of adolescent lefties that they screamed “fascist” at anyone they disagreed with. TV’s Young Ones sent up such muppetry nearly 40 years ago.
Yet Corbyn’s supporters, frontbenchers and London’s pipsqueak Mayor Sadiq Khan now do exactly that.
And there is a national consequence to the juvenile antics of politicians like Corbyn, Khan, Emily Thornberry, Vince Cable and the odious Speaker Bercow.
How does Britain look to America when such “senior” figures witlessly abuse or snub the leader of the free world during his state visit for the poignant D-Day anniversary?
Or to other nations whose politicians ARE smart enough to separate any personal dislike for Trump from his historic office?
How does it look too when the BBC, our publicly funded broadcaster, thinks nothing of putting a giant inflatable mocking the President on screen alongside a presenter?
Let’s never again hear them pretend to be politically neutral.
The leftie MPs protesting against the chief of our No1 global ally hope one day to form a government, God help us.
If they think a Marxist Britain will survive, spurning our traditional allies and instead cosying up to the left-wing dictators and terrorists Corbyn’s rabble admire, they have a shock coming.
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