Would a Jeremy Corbyn government destroy the special relationship with the US?

John Bolton hasn't taken long to criticise Trump and his foreign policies post his sacking as national security adviser. According to Politico, Bolton attended a private gathering of same-minded people on Wednesday and was not slow in piling on the attacks, mostly about what he sees as the disaster policies of being nice to North Korea and attempting to win around Iran. Both policies, he said, would fail because all Kim Jong-un and President Hassan Rouhani wanted was to get the US to lift sanctions against their countries. He's probably right but Trump is determined to push ahead with these twin ideas. Bolton also said, according to Politico who spoke to one of the attendees, that if Trump had authorised military retaliation for the shooting down of the $220 million US Global Hawk drone over the Gulf in June, perhaps there wouldn't have been the drone and cruise missile attack against the Saudi oil installations at the weekend. Trump pulled back from attacking Iran over the drone shootdown saying it would have been disproportionate. I fear Bolton may be right with this too. However, what struck me as interesting about his "private" comments at the "private" meeting was Bolton's remark that if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister of the United Kingdom it would spell doom for the special relationship between America and Britain. I don't know whether that is accurate but it may well be so. Corbyn and Trump together would be like two people suffering from severe deafness. Corbyn wouldn't even be bothered about the special relationship, he'd be far too busy renationalising the railways and having cosy chats with trade union leaders at Number 10 about how to redistribute the country's wealth to the workers. Corbyn on the other hand has been around a long time. So I assume he knows that the special relationship is more about two things: we share the same language and we share all, or most, of intelligence stuff. Plus the US allows us to have its Trident D5 ballistic missiles to put into the Royal Navy's four deterrent submarines. If Corbyn were to screw up the intelligence and Trident relationship with the US then we would all be in serious trouble. But Corbyn hates Britain's independent nuclear deterrent - unlike most past Labour leaders, with the exception of Michael Foot- and probably thinks US intelligence is all skewed by the White House to suit Trump's needs and biases. So Bolton is almost certainly right. A Corbyn government would be fatal for Washington/London relations.