Slebs think we should listen to them.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Paloma Faith are among more than 250 of Britain’s best-known actors, artists, musicians and writers warning that if Britain were to leave the European Union it would become “an outsider shouting from the wings”.
With just weeks to go before the 23 June poll that will determine whether Britain’s future lies within the European Union, the Sherlock Holmes actor and the Brit award-winning singer have joined a star-studded list of creative figures in a letter urging voters to back remain.
“From the smallest gallery to the biggest blockbuster, many of us have worked on projects that would never have happened without vital EU funding or by collaborating across borders,” they say, in a letter.
And their opinions are more important than yours or mine because? Oh, they aren’t. These are vacuous people who make a living saying other people’s words. Not important. And their opinions carry no more weight than anyone else’s and given that many of them have worked with US backed projects, the matter of the EU for cross border collaboration is neither here nor there.
Pompous poltroons.
“Britain is not just stronger in Europe, it is more imaginative and more creative, and our global creative success would be severely weakened by walking away.”
Bullshit.
Not only are most of these people known to be airheads, they also seem to be openly admitting having a vested interest.
Yes, please don’t take our gravy train away…
They are dragging out these self-aggrandising nonentities because they are the subject of so much drone adulation. How should I vote? Hang on, what would (insert name of sleb) do?
The obvious and sensible thing is to vote out/leave and reclaim both our freedom and the supremacy of common law. These 250 people are idiots.
Weird. I’ve been paid as an artist and a writer, but nobody seems to be asking my opinion.
The UK has always punched well above its weight in the creative industries. It did so long before joining the EEC too, and there’s no reason why tax breaks would cease overnight if the UK left the EU next month.
Ironically, writer, musician and artist Bill Bailey explains why the moronic outpourings of slebs can be safely ignored, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7kFg1HzlF8
What is a celebrity? One who parrots the ideas of others. A posing, whining hypocrite with none of the morals they claim. A paid smiler. A pale shadow that one cloud may erase. Lower than whores or beggars.
See here young Mr Longrider. These celebrities we are told to attend and fawn over are pathetic mewling creatures, weak jawed charlatans and dissemblers all, whose life’s sole purpose is to provide we groundlings targets to throw orange peel and insults at. All else of their frail existence is naught. The lightest breeze of Summer has more substance.
‘Tis not that they live lewd lecherous lives, but yet preach a virtue they do not possess to all and sundry. (Hey nonny nonny Olive Oil Messrs Dwight, Varnish, Van den Borg, and Lewrence for example.) A plaque on all their houses, say I.
A plaque or a plague?
A plaque saying “Here lives an idiot”.
You got it.
Apparently they claim that creativity will suffer if we leave the EU.
Exactly how the fuck do they figure that out?!? Thick gravy train loving bastards the lot of them. Thank God they’re irrelevant…
One area where we can save a bundle is not having to pay for EU embassies that overlap in countries where we already have a diplomatic presence.
140 of them that cost £420 million to run.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10503043/Full-extent-of-EUs-diplomatic-service-revealed.html
Nor pay for the maintenance of this grandiose “House of European History”
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/visiting/en/visits/historyhouse.html
(faq last one on this page)
But I did like that Rosetta mission and the little bitty Philae – also the lass bouncing around.
Whether it was worth Euro 1 billion is open to debate.
http://www.space.com/30173-rosetta-comet-spacecraft-one-year-anniversary.html
For god sake, they are celebs of course we should listen to them. I’m convinced by the bunch of ‘luvvies’. I wonder what the Kardashian clan have to say on the matter? I’m sure it will be profound. Doesn’t the UE provide money for butt implants or somethink?
Well the BBC gave wall to wall coverage of Angelina Jolie Pitt’s vist earlier this week suggesting that we really should do a great deal more to hasten the pace toward genuine mulitculturism.
That we should be more generous toward our fellow man and the world will be an oh so much better place by “people coming together for freedom”.
So go hug an economic migrant on account the UN’s got a celebrity mouthpiece.
Oh, and while she’s at it, why not take a pot shot at Mr. Trump.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/16/angelina-jolie-pitt-refugees-un-donald-trump-immigration
Thing is that politicians seem as starry-eyed towards slebs like the other more moronic members of the population – who can forget William Hague’s gazing upon Angelina with adoration; even the normally down to earth Tom Harris breathlessly blogged about having been introduced to David Tennant.
But aren’t they saying that the EU uses our money to pay for the things that we don’t want to pay for with our money/
Isn’t ‘art’ wonderful!
I’m going to organise a letter extolling the virtues of Brexit: it will be endorsed by 250+ supermarket trolley collectors. At least they have experience of real life in the real world. Now who will publish it..?
This is from the Daily Mash, I’m not sure if it can claim to be satire when you consider that celeb worshiping culture does actually exist.
A WOMAN cannot decide which way to vote in the EU referendum because she fancies Jude Law but loathes Keira Knightley. Joanna Kramer, from Stoke-on-Trent, says the letter from 250 British stars backing the Remain campaign has confused the issue because of her conflicting feelings about them. She added: “If Paloma Faith backs staying in the EU then I’m out, because she’s an irritating tart with a well common voice. So you’d think the issue would be settled. But then Benedict Cumberbatch is in, and he’s lush, but then Jessie Ware’s signed and she really annoys me, though come to think of it I’ve mixed her up with Jessie J. Really it does come down to Law and Knightley, because he’s gorgeous even though he has gone bald and she can’t act and is nothing but a posh slag. What to do, what to do? I think I’ll wait and see what Adele says. She’s never led me wrong.”
I also laughed out loud reading the ‘mortarboard’ piece. :>
Cuthbert Bandersnatch and the rest (who the hell is Paloma whatsername?) are entitled to their opinions, but those opinions carry no more weight than Bob the builder, Terry the plumber or Dwayne the local drug dealer. Just because these champagne socialist luvvies get paid a shedload of money by mouthing other people’s words, they think their views are more important. They receive millions of Pounds a year in theatrical or art grants and yet slag off the country that provides it, a la Emma Thompson. They can all be in Europe by putting their money and reputation where their mouths are and emigrate. Inward looking selfish b*stards, all of ’em.
Apparently calling them luvvies is not PC – it’s worse than “nigger”, apparently…
Good. Then my use of the term will increase exponentially. The more luvvies it offends, the better.
“Cuthbert Bandersnatch and the rest (who the hell is Paloma whatsername?) are entitled to their opinions, but those opinions carry no more weight than Bob the builder, Terry the plumber or Dwayne the local drug dealer”
True, Cumberbollocks is no better qualified to express an opinion on the EU than white van man. But when Professor Hawking and other academics say that leaving the EU will injure research collaboration they do know rather more about it than chippy bloggers whose contributions to science are zilch. Opinions are not democratic. They are worth far more when informed by knowledge and experience.
Professor Hawkin is no more able to read the future than Mystic Meg and I treat his EU entreaties with the same level of gravitas. The only thing that matters here is who makes our laws, Westminster or Brussels?
The EU fails catastrophically when it comes to democratic accountability and needs to go. Sooner rather than later.
“Professor Hawkin is no more able to read the future than Mystic Meg and I treat his EU entreaties with the same level of gravitas”
He is capable of more accurately predicting the future with respect his specialism than “Mystic Meg”. Since none of us can guarantee the future, that is good enough for me until the future actually arrives.
“The only thing that matters here is who makes our laws, Westminster or Brussels?”
I think you’ll find it is Westminster.
“The EU fails catastrophically when it comes to democratic accountability and needs to go.”
So what would you change about elections or representation in the EU to make it more accountable and democratic?
Sigh… Westminster rubber stamps the bollocks that is pissed on us from Brussels. These laws are created by an unelected, unaccountable oligarchy. This needs to be removed. Just one example of their idiocy that I deal with on a daily basis is the two-part motorcycle test with exercises that actually sets candidates up for an accident – this did not come from Westminster. Indeed, the exercises have to be carried out off public roads because two of them must be conducted at 50kph. Westminster my arse!
The idea that academic research will suffer in the slightest is pure scaremongering. Nothing more, and I take it with a pinch of salt.
Remove the commission and place all legislative power with the parliament and a second house to act as a brake similar to our Lords or the US two-house system.
But even so, the whole thing is far too monolithic. Democracy works best at a very local level. Political union is a very bad idea. A trading bloc is fine.
Sigh!
The EU has 5 presidents – none of them elected.
I am reminded of Farage asking the “who voted for you?” Question of Van Rumpoy. Good question. I am still waiting for the answer.
“Slebs think we should listen to them”
Do they? They obviously want people to listen to them, otherwise they wouldn’t have publicized their opinions. So does everyone who makes an opinion public, whether lefty celebrity or right wing celebrity. However I have noticed that amongst the modern right chaterrati, a particularly prevalent attitude that a lefty expressing his opinion is “telling them what to think”. You’d really have to have pretty thin-skinned and lacking in intellectual confidence to think that.
Wouldn’t you?
Not really, it’s an observation -an accurate one.
How does someone saying “I think this” become “I am telling you to think this”. When you publish your opinions here, do you see yourself as telling your readers what to think? I can assure you that you are not telling me what to think!
Steven:
” (who the hell is Paloma whatsername?) ”
Keep up Steven, she’s an irritating tart with a well common voice.