Labour’s Trump folly

PICTURE the scene at the Foreign Office in a not-too-distant dystopian future. The British electorate has abandoned all reason and voted in a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn. Equally chilling, Emily Thornberry has been installed as Foreign Secretary.

She is told by mandarins that an invitation has been extended to the US President for a state visit. So will she honour it?

Judging by her sneering denunciation of Donald Trump yesterday, only if the President is a sanctimonious, politically correct liberal like herself.

If he’s a brash Right-winger, he’s persona non grata – despite being leader of the world’s most powerful democracy and a hugely important trading partner.

Describing Mr Trump as ‘an asteroid of awfulness that has fallen on this world’, Miss Thornberry proved conclusively that she knows nothing about the art of diplomacy.

When will she and her virtue-signalling friends understand that Mr Trump has been invited here not because of who he is but because of what he is? The invitation is not an endorsement of his personal politics. It’s a hand of friendship to the great nation he represents.

Through Nato, America has done more than any other country to guarantee peace in Europe since 1945 and has been a staunch ally for more than a century.

But because they don’t like its current leader, Labour’s hate mob shuns it. (Strangely, they are outraged by Mr Trump’s inane tweets yet silent on the genuine human rights abuses in Iran, Russia and of course Marxist Venezuela).

If we can give state visits to tyrants such as Robert Mugabe and Nicolae Ceausescu, how can we possibly refuse Mr Trump the same courtesy?