Emma Thompson Says The Uk Is 'a Cake-Filled Misery-Laden Grey Old Island'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/16/emma-thompson-uk-eu-referendum_n_9241762.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Well if that is what you think of our Green and Pleasant Land luvvie, then you can always go and live elsewhere.

[viv41]

Silly moo !

[jackthehat]

Yes, no Free Speech for anyone holding a contrary view.....that's what I say!

[woofgang]

She has a view, she was asked what that view was and she gave it. I fail to see an issue here.

[naomi24]

Jack, no one is stopping her airing her views, but they don't have to agree with her.

[agchristie]

She can always take un bateau for gateau....

[andy-hughes]

Ms Thompson is entitled to her view - it is only because she is Ms Thompson that the rest of us get to read it.

From there, we can either care what she says, or not.

[pastafreak]

Do you only want citizens who are 'yes' people? Loving your country doesn't mean agreeing or liking it all the time. Criticism can lead to positive change.

[andy-hughes]

pastafreak - //Do you only want citizens who are 'yes' people? Loving your country doesn't mean agreeing or liking it all the time. Criticism can lead to positive change.//

Absolutely!

I would entirely agree with Ms Thompson's thumbnail sketch, but that doesn't mean I don't want to live here any more - and I'm sure it doesn't mean that to her either.

[Gromit]

// a Cake-Filled Misery-Laden Grey Old Island //

It sounds like a satirical and teasing remark rather than a serious comment. Since when has anything filled with cake been bad?

I assume the attack by the obscure Tory MP, and the OP, is not for those comments, but because they were in support of staying in the EU.

[naomi24]

//I would entirely agree with Ms Thompson's thumbnail sketch//

I wouldn't. Nothing cake-filled, misery-laden, or grey that I can see.

[dannyk13]

Emma who?

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - ////I would entirely agree with Ms Thompson's thumbnail sketch//

I wouldn't. Nothing cake-filled, misery-laden, or grey that I can see. //

Feel free to check out my lunch desert any day, and listen to conversation in my town centre, and look out of my office window - you'll find all criteria fulfilled.

[naomi24]

Perhaps you should look at the wider picture.

[jno]

many of its inhabitants do look cake-filled, it's true (though of course it may be burgers).

As for grey and old - both correct. If she thinks its people are miserable she's probably been reading AB too much.

[douglas9401]

"Since when has anything filled with cake been bad?"

Gemma Collins?

[Canary42]

That's good, coming from the phoney patriot who's perpetually running this country down.

[mushroom25]

//Since when has anything filled with cake been bad? //

how about bbc1? since when was wall to wall baking competitions a good use of expensive airtime?

[viv41]

'As for grey and old - both correct'. Maybe where you live, but not where I live !!

I repeat, silly moo !

[andy-hughes]

Canary - //That's good, coming from the phoney patriot who's perpetually running this country down. //

To whom is your post addressed please?

[youngmafbog]

She'd do well to keep her anti British sentiment to herself.

Sanctimonious luvvie.