Don’t compare me to Donald Trump I’m more like Leicester City, says Jeremy Corbyn
Labour leader rejects similarities to his rise to the Republican candidate, saying they have nothing in common
JEREMY Corbyn has rejected comparisons to Donald Trump and said instead he is like Leicester City, because they have both “defied the odds”.
The hapless leftie rejected any similarities between his rise to Labour leader with the controversial billionaire’s campaign to be President, after Ed Balls said they were both outsiders.
He said: “It’s a very, very strange to comparison to put, I don’t think Donald Trump and I have very much in common on anything.”
And he hit out at the real estate mogul’s policies on immigration, saying he has been “alarmed and appalled” by his comments on Muslims.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Mr Corbyn said: “The idea that you would build a wall between your country and your nearest neighbour, Mexico, and then somehow or other try and say they’ve got to pay for it… what kind of behaviour and what kind of attitude is that?
“In addition to the any other strange, very old-fashioned social attitudes that he seems to be so keen on.”
The Labour boss added that he was “Alarmed an appalled by what he’s said, about Muslims within the unites states.
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“And what he’s said about social conditions and divisions with the United States.
“He plays to an audience which feels very angry at the way the political establishment has treated it and he doesn’t actually offer any solutions other than a sort of blame culture.”
After denying the claim by former minister and Strictly star Mr Balls there were similarities, he was asked if he agreed there was a comparison to be made in the sense that both had defied expectations.
He said: "Leicester City did last year. Lots of people defy the odds.
“It was an interesting experience last year to see the thirst of people, it wasn't that they aren't political, it was that politics wasn't interested in them."
Elsewhere in the Today programme interview, recorded yesterday, he suggested he was happy with current levels of immigration.
And ahead of his speech to the Labour Party Conference this afternoon, he announced that his Government would spend at least £50m on a migration impact fund to compensate areas affected by high levels of arrivals.
He said: “I understand the problems that can come in some areas, hence my determination on the migrant impact fund.
“But I also understand that there are many industries and jobs that have done well from migrant labour and even depend on it.
“They are concerned that they won’t be able to have short term migrant labour coming into Britain to help them.”