‘It Is Wrong for the President to Have Done This’
President Donald Trump has created yet another international incident with America’s strongest ally. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, a conservative, on Wednesday condemned the American president’s retweeting of hate videos originally posted by the UK’s Jayda Fransen. Fransen heads Britain First, a far-right, neo-Fascist, Christian fundamentalist, ultranationalist British anti-Islam extremist group.
“It is wrong for the President to have done this,” Prime Minister May’s spokesperson said in a statement, The Telegraph reports.
“Britain First seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions,” the statement continues. “They cause anxiety to law-abiding people. British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right, which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents – decency, tolerance and respect.”
Earlier Wednesday in the British House of Commons, members discussed Trump’s tweets, with several expressing outrage:
Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn also condemned Trump’s tweets:
In September Prime Minister May rebuked Trump for his response to a terror attack in London, and Scotland Yard called Trump’s remarks an attack on London’s police.Â
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