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Thornberry claims UK would STOP dealing with Trump over aggressive handling of North Korea
The Sunday Express ^ | October 8, 2017 | Oli Smith

Posted on 10/08/2017 5:20:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Emily Thornberry has insisted that the UK can talk to the US without working with Donald Trump.

In a shocking attack on the elected leader of the US, the shadow foreign secretary said that Mr Trump's rhetoric on North Korea was intemperate, inappropriate and dangerous.

This comes as the US leader tweeted last night that "only one thing will work with North Korea" in response to failed diplomatic efforts.

Tensions between the Trump administration and Kim Jong-Un has dramatically escalated in recent weeks.

Speaking to Sky News, Mrs Thornberry said: "I wouldn’t ever change my tone with Trump.

"I would say quite clearly how we disagree on a large number of things. It's appalling what he is doing with the Iran nuclear deal, with the Paris climate treaty.

"Some people say he is deliberately acting crazy with North Korea, it makes no sense."

Niall Paterson blasted this assessment of the issues for displaying "a gulf between fantasy and reality".

The Sky News anchor explained: "You want to stand up to the US, but in reality, we need them, we need to maintain a relationship, especially after Brexit."

However, the Labour cabinet minister said:

"The US is not just the Trump; there are lots of good people there with good will.

"We will work with them and make it clear that his views are not fit for the world stage."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; britain; england; korea; labour; northkorea; thornberry; trump
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I was sitting there, scratching my head, wondering when my ex-wife changed her name and got into British politics. Waiting for her to call the president "toxic" since that seemed to be her favorite derisive word.
1 posted on 10/08/2017 5:20:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Title: Thornberry claims UK would STOP dealing

First Sentence: Thornberry has insisted that the UK can talk to the US without working with Donald Trump.

Thornberry is the shadow foreign secretary (Corbyn Commie). That means he’s playing pretend because he has no real official role, and really is just talking out of his ass.


2 posted on 10/08/2017 5:28:52 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Old Labour redux is really showing their Stalinist bent.


3 posted on 10/08/2017 5:29:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clutch those pearls Madame, you convince no one of your virtue and everyone of your irrelevancy.


4 posted on 10/08/2017 5:29:58 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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Haha!

“I would say quite clearly how we disagree on a large number of things. It’s appalling what he is doing with the Iran nuclear deal, with the Paris climate treaty. “

That statement alone tells us everything we need to know about this moonbat.


5 posted on 10/08/2017 5:30:25 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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“And never ever ever ever ever ever ever not give up” - Thornbury’s attempt at a modern progressives Churchill moment.


6 posted on 10/08/2017 5:30:57 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And North Korea is NOT intemperate, inappropriate and dangerous?

Fight fire with fire. The North Koreans have set the rules of engagement, they may change them to conform to the rest of the world at any time they like.

Now would be good. The North Korean fatboi, Kim Jong Un, really does not want to open that can of worms.


7 posted on 10/08/2017 5:32:49 AM PDT by alloysteel (Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
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These crazy rage driven leftists usurp the perogitives of the president at the drop of a hat. Chaos is on the way. These children bring it.


8 posted on 10/08/2017 5:33:20 AM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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Oh my, can you imagine this person being an apologist for the Soviet Union and East Bloc back in the days of Thatcher and Reagan?


9 posted on 10/08/2017 5:34:06 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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"I would say quite clearly how we disagree on a large number of things. It's appalling what he is doing with the Iran nuclear deal, with the Paris climate treaty.

I always wonder why it is that logic circuits are so disrupted in liberal brains.

North Korea is a nuclear threat today because Bill Clinton gave them nuclear technology and money to fund their nuclear program in exchange for a "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" promise not to use the technology for weapons.

Barack Obama made the same kind of deal with Iran.

No one who has any understanding of totalitarian megalomaniacs would have thought that the North Korea deal was a good idea. In fact, it was inevitable that North Korea would eventually become very belligerent with its nuclear weapons. No one with any ability to think could conclude that it's a good idea to give another hostile nation, Iran, the means to make nuclear weapons.

Yet here are these liberals, who presumably have the facts and know the history, blaming Trump for being belligerent as he has to deal with the problem of a nuclear North Korea and criticizing him for trying to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear threat? What is wrong with them?

I've read about people who have an innate inability to process numbers or to navigate their way between two places. Their brains literally, physically, lack the areas responsible for these kinds of calculations. I suspect that many liberals actually lack the ability to assess evidence and come to logical conclusions.

10 posted on 10/08/2017 5:36:22 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Clutch those pearls Madame, you convince no one of your virtue and everyone of your irrelevancy.

Irrelevancy is her virtue.

11 posted on 10/08/2017 5:36:28 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Bill Clinton also approved the sale of technology to China that would allow them to successfully manufacture ICBMs aimed at the USA.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-technology-transfer-to-china.html


12 posted on 10/08/2017 5:43:54 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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If Britain doesn't come to it's senses we will be at war with them and their muslim army before the century is half over.

In fact, it may already be too late as they might have passed the demographic tipping point.


13 posted on 10/08/2017 5:44:46 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but not for themselves.)
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Dear Emily,

Please stop channeling Neville Chamberlain. Appeasement NEVER works.

Love, Winston


14 posted on 10/08/2017 5:45:35 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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-— shadow foreign secretary-—

Hmmm...... is that like Sid Vicious, Shadow secretary of State?


15 posted on 10/08/2017 5:50:29 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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Emily Thornberry
16 posted on 10/08/2017 5:51:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: OttawaFreeper
NK's Rocket Man is absolutely no different than the Clinton's. Imagine Hillary's fundraising arm for the Clinton Foundation if she were president? She would be firing off missiles and killing her enemies while appointing her loyalists every day.

N.K. has most likely been giving commission on their extortion schemes of the past. The elites expected their cut.

17 posted on 10/08/2017 5:51:54 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The UK needs the US a lot more than the US needs the UK.


18 posted on 10/08/2017 5:58:07 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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