Bill Clinton compared Jeremy Corbyn to a tramp as Wikileaks reveals he launched a withering private put down of Labour
Ex-President slammed party for booting out Blair and choosing Ed Miliband over his brother David at fundraiser for Hillary
FORMER US President Bill Clinton launched a withering private put down of the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn, comparing him to a tramp.
In a leaked comments by the former President made at a fundraiser for his wife Hillary, Bill Clinton slams the party for booting out Tony Blair and choosing Ed Miliband over his brother David.
And he mocked hapless Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn, saying “they reached the interesting conclusion that they lost because they hadn’t moved far left enough, and so they went out and practically got a guy off the street to be the leader of the British Labour Party.”
Comparing Mr Corbyn to Donald Trump, Mr Clinton added: “when people feel they’ve been shafted and they don’t expect anything to happen anyway, they just want the maddest person in the room to represent them.”
The revelation will come as a hammer blow to the British lefties, who idolise their Democrat sister party on the eve of the Clintons possibly returning to the White House.
A transcript of the speech given in October 2015 was revealed in the latest tranche of hacked emails published by Wikileaks.
Mr Clinton's private comments were attached to a message sent to Varun Anand and sent to Hillary's campaign boss John Podesta, whose emails have been published in excruciating detail by the site run by Julian Assange.
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Mr Corbyn has often praised Julian Assange, and defended his decision to escape sexual assault claims in Sweden by hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Last year he told the New Statesman: "He’s taken himself into the embassy because he felt that, had he been taken back to Sweden, he would be taken forcibly to the US."
He added: "The Swedish are unclear about what would happen to him in Sweden.
"I think it would be much better if the Swedish authorities investigated the case against him, decided whether there was a case for a prosecution or not, and dealt with it that way, while guaranteeing that under no circumstances would he be extradited to the US."
Responding to the latest embarrassment to hit Mr Corbyn, Lib Dem boss Tim Farron said: "The idea that Bill Clinton thinks that Jeremy Corbyn is useless should come as no surprise to anybody."
He added: "But it shows you how far into the wilderness Labour have gone. Labour are the most irrelevant the party has ever been."
