David Lammy, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, is a man of contradictions. Despite having studied at Harvard Law School no less, he managed to balls up some pretty easy questions on Celebrity Mastermind some years ago. When asked who had won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for her research into radiation, he gave Marie Antoinette as his answer. His response to the question as to who had succeeded Henry VIII was “Henry VII”. Good grief. A knowledgeable 11 year-old would have known these answers, but not our Lammy:
Lammy describes himself as a Christian socialist, but despite his belief in a religion that commands love for one’s neighbour and forgiveness of one’s enemies, he has proven himself adept at hurling the basest of insults at Donald Trump.
In 2017, Lammy called Trump “a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser”. When Trump visited the U.K. in 2018, Lammy took the opportunity to go on record in Time magazine to label Trump “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” and a “tyrant in a toupee”. Lammy also boasted that he would be joining the London protest against Trump’s visit. In 2019, when Trump complained about being badly treated during his time in office because of the many attempts to impeach him, Lammy’s response was this: “Four U.S. Presidents have been assassinated snowflake.” In the light of what went down recently in Butler Township, Lammy’s words are even more odious.
Failing spectacularly on Celebrity Mastermind is personally embarrassing, but survivable. The British public like a good loser who can make them laugh. But if Trump is elected President in November, and it looks likely he will be, Lammy will be faced potentially with the excruciating embarrassment of having to work with a U.S. Government whose leader he has effectively called Adolf Hitler.
At the time that Lammy voiced these slanders, the Labour party was led by Jeremy Corbyn whose loathing of America is as great as his love of Palestinian terrorists. Lammy had tasted power as one of Blair’s junior Ministers, but was once more on the backbenches. He may have thought his denigration of Trump would earn him some street cred with the Dear Leader, and possibly a promotion.
When Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election and with Trump mired in multiple federal, state and local investigations ever since, it looked as if Trump’s political career was buried. But Trump is a fighter and he is back. Unfortunately for Lammy, Trump has a pachydermatous memory for insults thrown at him and does not forgive easily. If Trump takes the White House, Lammy’s words are going to come back to bite him with the viciousness of a hungry alligator from Sarasota.
In response, Lammy has tried to play down the significance of his anti-Trump tirades. When asked by BBC’s Naga Munchetty how he was going to forge a working relationship with Trump, Lammy’s response was to refuse to apologise, saying that many politicians have disparaged Trump, and that Trump has a thick skin. That is not answering the question, as Munchetty made clear to Lammy, who in turn accused her of not liking his answer to her question. Palpably, Lammy has not yet transitioned out of his social justice warrior mentality into the statesmanlike demeanour he must now display if he is to represent Britain’s interests on the global stage. When faced with the U.S. Secretary of State or the Foreign Minister of China or Iran, none of them will give a toss about his woke credentials and neither will they tolerate the bullshitting tactics he used on Munchetty.
But Lammy is right on one thing: he is one among many who have sneered at Trump. What he fails to see is that because of the attempt on Trump’s life, his invectives are more than just painful words. It is plausible that one of the reasons Thomas Crooks tried to murder Trump is the way in which Trump-haters have for some time been calling him a Nazi. Was Crooks aiming to save America from a second Fuhrer? Crooks probably never heard or read Lammy’s idiotic remarks, but Lammy was an enthusiastic participant in that persistent chorus of abuse. The least he can do is publicly apologise, but from what I have seen of Lammy, he does not strike me as one who would.
Peter Harris is the author of two books, The Rage Against the Light: Why Christopher Hitchens Was Wrong (2019) and Do You Believe It? A Guide to a Reasonable Christian Faith (2020). First published on the New Conservative.
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“What he fails to see is that because of the attempt on Trump’s life, his invectives are more than just painful words. It is plausible that one of the reasons Thomas Crooks tried to murder Trump is the way in which Trump-haters have for some time been calling him a Nazi. Was Crooks aiming to save America from a second Fuhrer?”
Give over. It’s called Freedom of Speech. Ask this site’s host for a definition.
Lammy seems like an embarrassment but frankly aren’t they all?
I agree. Whilst not in office Lammy can say whatever he likes. What concerns me is how Trumps treatment of the UK (should he win) might be a reflection of the way members of our govt. treated him. We could all pay a price for Lammy’s idiocy.
Possibly though I doubt Trump would let it make a difference
I’ve no doubt Lammy will make a poor Foreign Secretary
When did we last have a good one.
I don’t know
I’ve gone off politicians
The last politician who I feel confident in saying they made a definite positive difference was Thatcher with the privatisation of various things
I don’t want politicians to do much beyond protecting our borders, enforcing the law
There’s an initial job to be done in getting the state out of our lives but that’s turkeys voting for Christmas
There appears to be an assumption that Trump will win, but if he does is it not likely that he will follow the money and deal with whoever he has to globally? Perhaps there are alternative scripts for Lammy being written by the Foreign Office over the next few months. As to Lammy, he could benefit from learning a bit more about diplomacy.
Trump is ahead in all the polls, consistently.
I doubt Trump cares much about David Lammy one way or the other, and he will most likely run rings around him.
Lammy is an embarrassment but then so are the rest of the Cabinet, and the Cabinet that preceded them, and most MPs and political parties.
Yes, Lammy “could benefit from learning a bit more” generally.
Or even anything?
Why does he remind me of Idi Amin? Another stupid but dangerous man.
Yes, you’ve hit the nail on the head: Idi Amin the de luxe dictator model.
Arrogant, overbearing, self-adoring, mouthy, over-estimating his own intelligence 100%, self-declared King of Scotland and fridge fan (handy for storing victims’ severed heads).
Maybe Hammy is related, hence the resemblance.
Trump is a democratic constitutionalist in an age when the Left is trying to construct an anti-constitutional post-democratic total-control state that disenfranchises the majority of voters (who are considered to be “deplorable”). And it’s a well-known fact in Lammy’s clown-world that democratic constitutionalists are Nazis (because that what the Nazis were too).
Ahhhh yes, the Nobel prize winners Pierre and Marie Antoinette.
Another diversity hire moron.
I think you’re right – Divershitty (hallowed be its name) is the only explanation for this duffer to have been appointed to anything more responsible than doorman.
Also, probably the only reason he was (allegedly) admitted to Harvard. Anyone checked?
We know who the real racists are and, more often than not, they’re black. I recently went to watch something on Netflix – Supercell or something like that – and had to turn it off after about ten minutes. Within that time they’d laid the foundations of what was to follow: a story about black people in a London which only seemed to contain black people, apart from the small handful of evil white people. It really was ridiculous. We did have racism, and some sexism, in the 70s – I remember it as a child – but to keep pretending we still have those problems now are astonishing. And I grew up in a very rough area of a North Midlands town within a family that didn’t have a pot to p*ss in. By the age I was 20, two friends were drug addicts, one was in prison, and one had committed suicide. That’s what white, male, f*ckin privilege looks like.
When will we treat these victim groups with the utter contempt they deserve instead of constantly pandering to them?
Haven’t you realised yet that there is a drastic shortage of white actors to take roles in films and TV series, or even grimacing, jumping-about roles in ludicrous TV ads?
That’s why you rarely see white faces as they have to be severely rationed. In TV ads, for example, depicted families consist of black/Asian mum, dad & kids, with only a white mum popping up now and then with a black husband, of course. Typical British families, according to the ever-so-woke madmen of adland.
Naturally, this means the black/Asian actors are terribly overworked, but it doesn’t bother Equity, the actors’ union who are supposed to represent all their members equally unless they’re white.
Laurence Fox, formerly a well-known actor, gave it up after learning that he had been bumped out of a part by a black woman because Equity quotas decreed it. So despite my tongue-in-cheek first paragraph, perhaps there IS now a shortage of white actors owing to their retiring in despair from the profession. This kind of negative discrimination against them in their own, majority white country must be very disheartening.
My solution? I never watch live TV or ads. On Netflix, if there’s more than a whiff of woke casting on any programme, it’s dumped, pronto. I have a long list of ‘Continue viewing?’ items that I will never return to.
Given the clues scattered before us by Lammy , it is possible to conclude that he is as thick as mince ! Should not his professional qualifications be examined in case there has been a little misrepresentation ?
Yeah, Harvard, really? Big stink of DIE methinks.
Donald Trump is smart enough to know mediocrity (if that’s not too complimentary of this nincompoop) when he sees it, and the entire US establishment has been calling him far worse – and he’s been shot. Water off a duck’s back.
Besides it is US Secretary of State who deals with the foreign wallahs. Trump can more or less ignore him.
Lammy is a lot like Corbyn – never expected to have any real position of power, just enjoyed complaining. Now that higher standards are expected of him, he is falling very short of minimums.
More interesting question: Why do backbenchers of UK opposition parties vent their irrelevant opinions about “hidden motivations” of US presidents or presidential candidates at all? This would have been called “interfering with the internal affairs of other countries” some time ago and was generally frowned upon. And even assuming there was some justified reason for this kind of interference, what, if anything, could possibly come of it? It’s not that US voters are going to pay much attention to rantings of English also-ran politicians.
Why does Lammy think it’s necessary to convince someone that he has the Right Opinion™ of Donald Trump’s conjectured secret character?
Race grifting, synaptically challenged two hat.
Perhaps Mr L will make up to Trump by boogieing on down with Trumps’s rappers. All gold chains and bangles. Hopefully Trump will not feel the need to hold Mr L’s hand when he visits the White House.
If he thought that Marie Antoinette was cooking up some radioactive cake as a secret weapon to finish off the British army occupying Paris after 1815, one can see why he’s foreign secretary.
If Putin is the new Fuhrer and NATO is defending Ukraine, how can Mr L meet Trump ‘the second Fuhrer’ while NATO isn’t liberating Puerto Rico in a rematch of 1812?
Of course, Mr L being a Christian, if Kamala runs and wins it’ll be a meeting made in heaven.
Why is it that politicians, especially left wing ones are happy to make baseless, casual slurs against people they don’t agree with, but are very quick to play the race or class card when someone calls them something that upsets them.
After reading Peter Harris’ excellent article, I turned to the Comments section, hoping that the Lummox Lammy would be truthfully and correctly described as the appalling oaf that he is. And I was not disappointed:
“odious”, “failing spectacularly”, “embarrassing”, “social justice warrior mentality”, “idiotic”, “all gold chains & bangles”, “an embarrassment”, “idiocy”, “Lammy’s clown-world”, “another diversity hire moron”, “he’s as thick as mince”, “his professional qualifications should be examined”, “race grifting, synaptically challenged two hat”. Excellent!
The Globalists installed that cretin to make
Britain the Laughingstock of the World.
Just in case you might’ve hoped that diversity hiring was beneath the appointment of people to such high office. This man is not intelligent and he is not a serious person. Of course he is amenable to establishment interests but the fact that they have to scrape the barrel like this means that they lack depth of talent and that is exactly what you want in your enemy.
Pig Ignorant thicko !! He’ll go Far ( unfortunately)
Our time will not allow incompetence or deception. God knows how it will unfold but it won’t be according to the script. Our scripted reality is dead. Now is the time for something different.
Please please will Pesident Trump ensure his first meeting with Starmer and Lammy are broadcast in full. Im sure GB News will oblige even if BBC so t.
Lammy really is woefully ignorant on USA politics – the KKK were an exclusively Democrat organisation.
He obviously hasn’t seen the clip of Biden talking to a black show presenter and saying “if you don’t vote for me – you ain’t black”
Nor the clip where Biden essentially blackmails the Ukraine (CIA stooge – pre Voldymir) by saying if he didn’t stop his son’s company being investigated by a judge he would withhold $1.5Bn and gave him 6 hours to do it or the money would be gone – and son of a gun he sacked the judge.
He and Kamal both have history in sending more black to jail for longer times than any other pair of grifters – Trump gave them pardons – didn’t start any crazy wars and had the best work and reward stats for all working blacks latinos and other minority groups with protected characteristics – women.
Lammy is a loudmouth, bigoted racist who is completely unsuited to the role of Foreign Secretary, which requires diplomatic talents. Lammy probably can’t help what he is as it was presumably created when he was a young child.
What’s more to the point is why did Starmer appoint an undiplomatic loudmouth, bigoted racist as Foreign Secretary when he knew there was a reasonable prospect of Trump being re-elected?
It doesn’t exactly demonstrate Prime Ministerial qualities does it. But then we know he doesn’t have those.
Trump is everything the Liberal Progressive that seeks to control every aspect of people’s lives hate. He does not want to pretend to save the planet because he knows it is a socialist fraud. He will withdraw from all their globalist treaties that seek to end capitalism while pretending it is all about the climate. He won’t allow millions of migrants to flood into the country like the Labour Party and phony Tories do. Trump is the biggest thorn in the side of the eco socialist and mass immigration parasites and this bloated buffon above will be sadly disappointed that a bullet missed its target last week.
Trump is someone who might become the next president of the USA. He may or may not do something against illegal immigration into the USA but that’s pretty irrelevant to anybody who’s not living there. Globally, his legacy so far is lockdowns and mRNA vaccines. Apart from that, he was mostly like his predecessor — lots of talk, no actions.
One fact alone condemns Queer Smarmer as wholly unfit to have any say in how this country is managed: the nitwit appointed an even bigger nitwit, Hammy Lammy, as Foreign Secretary.
When Boris Johnson was endlessly lampooned for his cock-ups as Foreign Secretary, maybe we thought he was the worst possible choice, ever. But no, we ain’t seen nothing yet as Hammy embarks on his ham-fisted, heavy-handed and uncongenial foray into international diplomatic relations on behalf of the UK.
With Boris, at least he could look humble after a boo-boo and burble his way through mea culpas with a semblance of sincerity. But Hammy has arrogantly fallen at the first hurdle and is not likely to do any better than that. Added to which he has made anti-white aka racist comments a la Dianne Abbot’s mode of, ‘I’m black, me, more persecuted than Jews, so I can say what I like.’
Still, for those of us who loathe Labour, it’ll be fun to watch.
Munchetty, Lammy et al – box ticking dross floating on top of the media sewer.