Posted on 12/16/2024 7:40:28 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Senior Labour figures have rejected comments by Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, that the UK could become the first “truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon” under the party.
They were reacting to comments that were made by Vance, a junior senator for the state of Ohio who has been announced as Trump’s running mate, at a conference for US conservatives.
Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, told ITV that Vance had said “quite a lot of fruity things in the past” and she looked forward to meeting him and Trump if they won the US election in November.
“I don’t recognise that characterisation. I’m very proud of the election success that Labour had recently,” she said. “We won votes across all different communities, across the whole of the country, and we’re interested in governing on behalf of Britain and also working with our international allies.”
The jibe is likely to be embarrassing for the UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, who has attempted to build bridges with Vance in recent months, comparing their impoverished childhoods.
Vance was speaking at the National Conservatism conference last week, where he said: “I have to beat up on the UK – just one additional thing. I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about, you know, one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is nuclear proliferation, though, of course, the Biden administration doesn’t care about it.
“And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over.”
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Then it must be true.......................
Its called a “joke”.
Remember when the Brits had a sense of “humour”?
Doesn’t Pakistan have nukes?
Yeah, and Hitler rejected claims he hated Jews.
Maybe. And they might even work.
UK definitely has them, and they have about the same probability of working as ours.
Trump’s young apprentice is learning the art of trolling quickly.
Britain and France are islamic countries with nuclear weapons...
We were there in world war when we were needed and in a human era no longer existent, we had a relationship/
You SAID we were all Americans now, but then you opened yourself up to the successful rape by the enemy and are now wallowing in their filth.
Thanks for the language WE made global.
Yes, and I wonder if a first strike is in order.
God-tier level trolling. Gotta love plain-speaking JD
I saw this video on Twitter. It’s a warning about the Islamization of Europe and how people needed to wake up. The truth hit a raw nerve with Vance’s joke:
https://twitter.com/damob1980/status/1868260229881946522?s=46
Love it, JD!
They are suppressing this debate within the UK, so it gives hope to people there that at least we are talking about it here.
That would have been Pakistan....a for effort JD but F for execution!
Outside the New World, the West is already dead.
JD is correct in his assessment.
Western Civilization in Europe has collapsed without firing a shot.
Anybody know who’s behind this, besides Angela Merkel?
The story I heard somewhere is that those nukes are protected by British SAS special forces.
US THAAD missile defenses are on the ground in southern Israel right now as I understand it where Israel keeps its nukes in case Iran shoots at them.
Ping!
As they say, the Truth hurts.
I believe so, along with India.
💯.
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