Actor Dyer ‘entitled to call Cameron a t*** over Brexit’, say No10
HE’S made an acting career out of his rough and ready persona and yesterday he delivered his unvarnished verdict on Brexit … and David Cameron.
Eastenders actor Danny Dyer’s accused the former prime minister of ‘scuttling off’ after his side lost the EU referendum, and twice referred to him as a ‘t***’ on live TV on Thursday evening.
Last night his outburst, laced with the odd expletive, won him some unlikely fans – perhaps even one in Downing Street where a spokesman said he was ‘perfectly entitled to his views’.
Dyer, 40, turned the air blue on ITV’s Good Evening Britain, hosted by Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
Appearing alongside Jeremy Corbyn and ex-Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson, Dyer attacked Mr Cameron for calling the 2016 referendum then stepping down following the Leave vote.
He spoke out after a discussion on how contestants on reality show Love Island – which features Dyer’s daughter Dani – did not understand Brexit.
‘Who knows about Brexit? No-one has got a f****** clue what Brexit is. You watch Question Time, it’s comedy,’ he said. ‘No-one knows what it is. It’s like this mad riddle.’ He then added: ‘What’s happened to that t*** Cameron who brought it on? Let’s be fair. How come he can scuttle off? He called all this on.
‘ Where is he? He’s in Europe, in Nice with his trotters up. Where is the geezer? I think he should be held accountable for it... T***.’
Mr Cameron refused to respond to the tongue-lashing, with his spokesman saying: ‘That’s not something we will be commenting on.’
Theresa May did not see the broadcast because she was at dinner with EU leaders at the European Council in Brussels. But a spokesman from Number 10 said: ‘People who appear on broadcasts and in newspapers are perfectly entitled to their opinions.’
Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, who campaigned for Remain alongside Mr Cameron, agreed with Dyer’s view of Brexit as a ‘mad riddle.’
On Friday’s Good Morning Britain, Miss Harman said: ‘It’s easy to laugh at his colourful language about David Cameron’s “trotters” but actually he has summed it up.
‘It is very worrying indeed, because it’s the cost of people’s holidays, the cost of people’s food, it’s people’s actual jobs at stake.’
Asked whether Mrs May would accept that Brexit was ‘a mad riddle’, a Downing Street spokesman said last night: ‘We have always been clear that Brexit is a challenging process, but we’ve made good progress on it.
‘We will be publishing a White Paper next month which will set out a bit more clearly to the public what our plans are.’