Vance has previously described Britain under Labour as the first “truly Islamist” country with a nuclear weapon.
Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “Let me just say on JD Vance that I’ve met him now on several occasions, we share a similar working class background with addiction issues in our family. We’ve written books on that. We’ve talked about that.
“And we’re both Christians so I think I can find common ground with JD Vance.”
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Expanding on his views on Vance on BBC Radio 4, Lammy said he had started to discuss the US view on global defence at the security conference in Munich in February.“Yes, he has had strong things to say about European defences, and he has had a point of view about Ukraine,” Lammy said. “That’s why I’ve been engaged with JD Vance for many, many months.”
The foreign secretary once called Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi sociopath” and “a tyrant in a toupee”, but has distanced himself from those comments as the US presidential election has approached.
More recently Lammy has spoken at conservative events in the US, telling the Hudson Institute in May that he “gets the agenda that drives ‘America first’”.
Jesus wept. This is not the Labour I was hoping for. And I had pretty minimal expectations, to be clear.
I see a lot of criticism in here. What realistically would be the best course of action? There’s a high possibility that Trump, despite being utterly unsuitable to being charge of a light switch, will be elected president of the US again. Realistically the only thing we can do is just try and make the best of it. And if that means trying to find a way to work with utterly the thing we’re going to have to do.
“Our only option is to give in to fascism” 🙄
(yes, cooperating with it, accepting it as a legitimate partner for negotiation, is giving in. When one side is actively not only calling but acting to oppress multiple groups of people, there should be zero tolerance)
We don’t give into fascism though. The fascism will exist regardless of our opinion of it.
Cutting our own noses off to spite our face does no one any good at all
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Sure, if he’s elected then Vance is someone Lammy will likely have to work with. He didn’t have to announce that he had so much in common with an ethnonationalist before he’s even been elected though.
There seems to be a lot of blind hatred for anything that isn’t Corbyn’s Labour on this community.
I think we loosen connections with US and increase them with sane European countries. The US is heading for isolation, and decline because of it. We have friends right next door.
I could find common ground with an invading space alien.
Doesn’t mean I’m going to act like that means it’s appropriate for me to work with them or claim they’re not evil.
I keep hearing about this Lammy guy being a right knob.
…Certainly be seems stupid - just because you follow the same organised religion as someone else and come from a similar socioeconomic background, doesn’t mean you’re even remotely anything alike.
It’s a good thing this guy who doesn’t understand how people work (or is lying about it) isn’t in charge of anything important. Right?
I think he’s just saying the things you have to say to appease the situation. Obviously this Vance guy is a complete nut case. But we can’t do anything about that. Be preferable if the US could elect people with more than six brain cells but that seems to be not really an option on the table so we have to deal with the people we get.
Tell us you have no self respect or morals and are only concerned with furthering your own career without saying you have no self respect or morals and are only concerned with furthering your own career… 🙄
I’d say “what a fucking joke”, but it really isn’t funny…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
David Lammy has said he is already engaging with Donald Trump’s controversial running mate, JD Vance, and can identify with him because of their common working class and Christian backgrounds.
The British foreign secretary was speaking just hours after the possible future US vice-president reiterated his “America first” views, pledging to the Republican national convention (RNC) that he would not send US soldiers to war abroad unnecessarily.
Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “Let me just say on JD Vance that I’ve met him now on several occasions, we share a similar working class background with addiction issues in our family.
Starmer is hoping to use the EPC summit to demonstrate Europe’s collective determination to support Ukraine, and to relaunch the UK on the European stage and reset relations with the EU after almost eight years poisoned by Brexit.
The summit will be attended by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy who, along with Starmer, will address the plenary session involving the 44 leaders as well as the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Council of Europe.
He told Harris about his pledge to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, which offered immunity for Troubles-era crimes in Northern Ireland, and committed to an annual Anglo-Irish conference with a specific work-stream aimed at ironing out practical problems which can create drags on the neighbours’ relationship.
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