Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed the United Kingdom’s Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn on the day U.K. citizens vote to elect a new Parliament.
The New York Democrat promoted a Labour Party campaign video on Twitter Thursday. The video attacks Labour’s primary opponent, the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States. The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”
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This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States.
The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives.
The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!pic.twitter.com/N5JYaVGCBs
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 12, 2019
Corbyn also shared the video on Wednesday.
Last week, a dossier of sworn statements by 70 current and former Labour staffers alleged widespread, systemic anti-Semitism had infected the party. Corbyn was accused of fostering hate by “publicly supporting anti-Semites and anti-Semitic tropes” and causing the party to become “institutionally anti-Semitic.”
The Jewish Labour Movement compiled the staffers’ statements and submitted the dossier to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission as part of its investigation into anti-Semitism in the party. The Labour Party is the second U.K. political party to be investigated by the commission, the first being the British National Party. Corbyn has continually denied that his party does not appropriately handle all cases of anti-Semitism.
Ocasio-Cortez’s office did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
