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Eddie Redmayne's the kind of reason why people voted for Brexit

posted 7 years ago by Picnic10
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Eton then Cambridge. Nicely set up.. when your starting point's Eton. I applaud his parents for giving him a bunk up in life but he's now a stereotype of the precocious, deliberately slightly fey (calm down - I'm not saying more than that), Cambridge private school boy a la Hugh Laurie. Milk and honey forever now in America who (and I understand why - it's CUTE isn't it?) lap it up as if it's not, in fact, a learned affectation, just like acting itself.

Pink Floyd once wrote 'Us and Them' and also sang, presumably for ironic effect, 'We don't need no education'. Well it clearly does help more than ever to stand out, if you're clever, by the school you went to when so many people are now going to the businesses they call university.

The rise of the consciously upper class in entertainment was not accidental. They filled a gap left by political correctness tarnishing the name of even the noble parts of the working class. And the middle class were ceasing to be as restrained and tasteful and polite as they once were. So up pops Tony Blair, Eddie and Benedict and David Cameron and Nick Clegg as if manifestations of a Britain, of all classes, that the masses pissed away as aspects of themselves, both as right and left wingers, a world of disappearing upper middle class / upper liberal conservatism, a world that seems so divorced from I'm a Celebrity / X Factor's lowest common denominator that these upper people now seemed so exotically cartoonishly cute as to be completely unthreatening. You can almost hear every female who should know better "Aw, nice privileged Eddie - he's just Bambi with a Coutts bank account isn't he. BLESS HIM".

But they were threatening so now Theresa May's here to restore some solid middle class common sense.

Sorry, Eddie, but I don't see you as someone to bring any sense.

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[–] Synthesizer_Patel 7 years ago

He is undoubtedly irritating. Like the James Blunt of Hollywood.

[–] Picnic10 7 years ago

You can imagine that, on an Eddie Redmayne board, I feared some hate towards my post. I won't criticise Blunt as he was in the armed forces (and time's shown him to have a good sense of humour - see his replies to internet trolls) which is more than can be said for many lazy Brits. I'm not being a troll myself really- just making a sociological point. I understand why Eddie is Eddie- conditions have allowed him to flourish just as a delicate rose blooms in a load of manure and he's relatively entertaining and, of course, charming in the rose tinted world he's been allowed to live in, on chat shows. But let's try to have less of a gap between people in society than rose and manure.

[–] debfox2611-1 7 years ago

Pink floyd obviously did need some education as we dont need no education contains a double negative, clearly meaning that some is required. ?

What is wrong with people being educated anyway, if you had chance to send your kids to oxford or cambridge i'm sure you would. Its only like harvard and yale in america. It opens doors easier. Its the same reasons people go on dragons den for investment as peter jones or deborah meaden's name opens more doorsbthan joe bloggs. Oxford and cambridge open more doors than other universities but then other universities open more doors than people who haven't gone to university get opened.

Why cant people be happy when people are doing well instead of being envious. I voted for brexit but it definitely wasnt because of eddie redmayne's education and upbringing.