Several times recently the leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn took time out from engaging in political fellatio with overseas and home grown extremists and terrorist groups, to try to smear the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that Boris Johnson is ‘Britain’s Trump’ and that a no deal exit from the EU will end up with Britain having ‘Trump’s Brexit and trade deal’.
Corbyn is trying the guilt by association trick with Boris Johnson that is something that is very plain to see. He’s doing this possibly in the hope that those with Trump Derangement Syndrome in the UK, or those who have been scared by the mainstream media into seeing President Trump falsely as some sort of monster, will back his party and his attempt to stifle Brexit. Unfortunately I don’t think that this is going to work and here are my reasons for thinking this way.
Firstly Trump and his policies are more popular in the United Kingdom than many in the Westminster bubble may think they are. I’ve met loads of people in real life to who one degree or another agree with President Trump. They like his border control policies, his support for the United Kingdom and the fact that he, unlike his predecessor, comes across as a competent and confident leader. The only people I’ve encountered who have a knee jerk dislike of Trump are those who are already firmly embedded in the Left or who have been seduced by Leftist rhetoric. Outside of the leftist and Westminster bubble crowd, people seem to like President Trump and appreciate his no nonsense approach to his public image.
Secondly the promotion of Trump spectres which Corbyn is engaged in may play well with the Labour base including the Momentum blackshirt types and the Islamic base which is becoming increasingly important to Labour. However it may not play too well either in the shires or those in the North of England who have been battered relentlessly by Labour’s aloofness and damaging policies, including Labour’s immigration and social policies. Although there will always be some dyed in the wool intergenerational voters who continue to vote Labour even though the party is kicking them and their communities in the head, others may be more discerning and wary of Labour now. It’s a big ask after all to get people to vote for a party that tells local people to ‘shut up and enjoy the enforced diversity’ when there are problems such as Islamic Rape Gangs abounding in that area. I suspect that Labour will take somewhat of an electoral hit (outside of the areas dominated by the whipped mosque vote of course) in their traditional heartlands next time these areas are contested. I doubt that those who are angry at what Labour councils and governments have done to their areas with regards social and immigration policies will be that impressed with Corbyn’s waving the Trump spectre round like a shroud.
Thirdly, I believe that the British public have become both desensitised and more aware of the dishonesty and political motivation behind Trump Derangement Syndrome than they used to be. We can see by looking at various alternative news sources to that provided by the BBC, ITV, Sky and the print media, that President Trump is not the monster that he is portrayed as and the overuse of ‘Orange man bad’ by the media has, like the overuse of the word ‘racism’, rendered this phrase relatively powerless.
There are many of us out there who would like to see some form of British Trump who stood up for our traditional values and freedoms and gave a good political kicking to an administrative Establishment that has become somewhat of a wholly owned subsidiary of the Left. Those of us who are on the centre-right or who are classically liberal and even some who are on the centre-left can recognise some of the problems that President Trump is trying to tackle and we also recognise that some of America’s problems are similar to our own with regards to both the immigration issue and the problem of the Left capturing institutions such as education for example.
It was a bad mistake in my view by Corbyn to try to play the Trump Derangement Syndrome card. It might play well and be effective in Labour’s increasingly left wing activist base but not so much in the country as a whole. Corbyn’s attempt to paint Boris Johnson as ‘Britain’s Trump’ may end up backfiring badly because if the PM can get us out of the EU and makes Britain confident again, then the PM will be in a very strong position. In that scenario people may remember Corbyn’s claim that Boris Johnson is Britain’s Trump and rather than rejecting the Conservative Party for that reason, could increase the party’s support.
