Why is the British political class so hostile to Donald Trump?
Americano
The Spectator
4 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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With Dominic Green, Life & Arts Editor, Spectator USA.
Presented by Freddy Gray.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency for the new Spectator USA website. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm joined today by Dominic Green, who is Spectator USA's Arts Editor and a Brit living in America. |
| 0:22.6 | And we're going to be talking about the British reaction to the forthcoming visit of Donald Trump to our shores in June. |
| 0:31.9 | Dominic, we've just heard hot off the press that Jeremy Corbyn shock horror is going to be snubbing the state banquet for Donald Trump |
| 0:40.5 | when he is in London. This is not to most of us very surprising news, given what Corbyn has said |
| 0:48.0 | about Trump in the past, but the more pressing question for me anyway is, does Donald Trump |
| 0:53.4 | have any idea who Jeremy Corbyn is? |
| 0:56.3 | Well, Freddie, as you know, until quite recently, most people in Britain didn't really know who |
| 1:01.2 | Jeremy Corbyn was. Unless you were a terrorist or a militant vegetarian, you probably hadn't |
| 1:06.9 | encountered him yet. So I'm almost certainly sure that this is the first time Donald Trump |
| 1:11.5 | has heard of him, though given Corbyn's past, I imagine the American security services are familiar |
| 1:17.0 | with him. I'm not actually sure that Donald Trump will pick up this latest snub from Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:23.1 | He may have picked up the news that John Burko has said that he should not be allowed to speak to |
| 1:29.7 | Parliament. Is that right? I gather now Burkow has apologised for that. Yes, the original |
| 1:35.2 | incident happened in 2017 when Burko took it upon himself to refuse the invitation. But immediately |
| 1:41.9 | afterwards, he did admit that it wasn't really his decision to |
| 1:45.0 | make. There are two speakers, the Speaker of the Commons and the Speaker of the House of Lords, |
| 1:49.6 | and they're meant to work this stuff out between them. So he apologised to the Speaker of the |
| 1:54.2 | Lords, Norman Fowler. And so really, it wasn't his decision in the first place. I dread that |
| 2:00.3 | they may then put it to a vote. |
| 2:02.4 | There is this slight tendency among British politicians, especially when dealing with American leaders, |
| 2:08.8 | to exaggerate just how important they or we as Britain are. And I mean, although Americans acknowledge |
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