“Trigger happy buffoon” – How British MPs described Donald Trump

British MPs (Members of Parliament) have been giving their verdicts on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the run up to the US presidential electon.

In the anonymous survey of 50 MPs, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton fared better than Republican rival Trump, but neither exactly received a ringing endorsement.

However it is Trump who came in for the most criticism – with MPs feeling they could speak more openly knowing that they would not be named.

Buffoon

Trump was described as “dangerous”, “narcissistic”, “trigger happy”, “protectionist” and a “buffoon” and one MP said he was “unfit to run a bath let alone a country.”

One senior Labour politician was particularly vitriolic about the Republican nominee saying: “Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

The same MP dismissed Clinton as “uninspiring” while another observed: “It is a mystery how more than 300 million people could come up with such losers.”

The survey, said to be  the most extensive polling of British politicians in this presidential election, was conducted by The House magazine.

Dangerous

The MPs were chosen to reflect the party political make-up of the British House of Commons

Not one of the 50 politicians believed Trump would make the world safer while two thirds said it would actually be ‘much more dangerous’ with the Republican running the US.

Clinton polled almost the opposite, with no MPs believing the world would be any more dangerous under her leadership and 82% believing her experience as a senator and secretary of state would lead to improved global security.

As for who is going to win, nine out of ten of the British MPs surveyed said they think it will be Clinton.

“Clinton will get home, Donald Trump has shot himself in the foot so many times that I can’t see him winning,” concludes a Tory backbencher.

British politicians on Trump:

• “He’d be a disaster for our countries. He’s ghastly, a threat to world peace and thoroughly obnoxious.” – Former Conservative minister.

• “Trump would be an absolute disaster; the man is a buffoon.” – Labour backbencher.

• “Trump doesn’t have the temperament; he’s trigger happy and narcissistic.” – Conservative MP

• “Trump is so unpredictable he could do something really quite radical and dangerous. Whatever you think of Hilary Clinton, she is a professional politician.” – Conservative MP.

British politicians on Clinton:

• “If Trump does win, it will be the grotesque selfishness of the Clinton mafia that foisted him upon us.” – Former Tory shadow minister.

• “Clinton’s not the best candidate there has ever been, but she is a safe pair of hands.” – Scottish Nationalist MP.

• “Whatever Clinton’s faults at campaigning, she’ll be a good executive president, probably better than Obama.” – Former Tory shadow minister.

• “I think she’ll be a lame duck from the start. Whoever wins I predict will be a one term president.” – Backbench Conservative MP.

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