A serial spouter of Leftie dogma
Emma Thompson has a reputation for nauseatingly holier-than-thou comments. Here are some of the luvvie’s worst:
‘It’s unfortunate, and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.’ She told students at Exeter University that her adopted African son had been racially abused during his time there and that the Far Right BNP leader Nick Griffin would ‘feel very comfortable’ in the city. This followed her saying: ‘Exeter is very white and middle class and needs to be cracked open a bit.’ ‘[The Government] is so corrupted by its nature, it’s corrupt in its own nature, not even in the sense of corruption, how we know that word, it’s the power that is corrupt, for me it is over, leadership is non-existent.’ ‘It’s not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor; it is the fault of governments. I want a different world.’ ‘I am encouraged by people like [the comedian] Russell Brand saying “Don’t vote”.’ Opposing Tesco’s plan to open a store two miles from her home: ‘I write to voice my profound objections to ( yet another) Tesco Express on Haverstock Hill. The people who live there do not want it. They already have food shops – ones they trust and that retain a local feel to them. Wherever
Tesco’s goes, the local feeling is destroyed by staff who neither know or care to know the inhabitants – your staff are always meanly paid and without any stake in either their employers’ interests or the interests of the local people.’ ‘London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised; there are little bits of legislation; people are scared.’ Speaking as an ambassador for the charity ActionAid: ‘Why in this world do we find money for war when we are faced with the Aids virus, the greatest threat to human existence in our history? Why is it possible for our governments to exhibit what I describe as psychotic detachment? It is extraordinary that all this is going on and we have not done anything.’ ‘I can’t stand it, I can’t bear the fact that [exploration companies] are going to drill for oil. They’re not drilling for f***ing oil in the Arctic! The Arctic belongs to us, all of us, they can’t be allowed to do that, so whatever it takes … non-violent direct action, civil disobedience, you have to do it!’