Classy.
LONDON, United Kingdom – The leader of the UK’s main opposition party, Jeremy Corbyn, has outraged his own party by joking about nuclear weapons being unable to protect America on 9/11. The Labour Party boss made the comments as he admitted that if he is elected Prime Minister at the next general election he would never use nukes anyway.
He said: “Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction that take out millions of civilians. They didn’t do the USA much good on 9/11.” The comments were part of his ongoing campaign to get the United Kingdom to end its role as a nuclear power, which has sparked a major debate within his party. His own choice to be Defense Secretary if he wins the election described the comments as unhelpful.
Maria Eagle said: “I think it undermines, to some degree, our attempts to get a policy process going. As far as I’m concerned we start from the policy we have… I don’t think that, a potential leader answering a question like that, in the way which he did, is helpful.”