Piers Morgan went after British celebrities for complaining about Conservatives’ and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in British elections.
“Like the Democrats when Hillary [Clinton] ran, Remainers enlisted the very vocal support of Hollywood luvvies to fight their cause. Hollywood actors Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan led the way,” the host of Good Morning Britain said in a Friday column for the Daily Mail. “Grant, who seemed to forget that playing a fictitious Prime Minister in Love Actually is not a qualification to be a real politician, spent weeks marching around ordering people not to vote for Johnson or the Conservatives because they had the audacity to want to act on the democratic will of the people.”
“Like the Trump-hating liberal celebrities who so raucously endorsed Hillary, [Grant] was hit by a sudden thunderbolt of reality that his views are not shared by most actual real people,” Morgan added.
Hugh Grant complained Thursday about the Conservative win by tweeting, “There goes the neighbourhood.” Morgan responded by blasting the actor on the platform. “No, there goes your credibility. The British people listened to your democracy-wrecking garbage & told you to f*ck off,” Morgan wrote.
No, there goes your credibility.
The British people listened to your democracy-wrecking garbage & told you to f*ck off. https://t.co/GGYFozysMI— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 12, 2019
On television, Morgan called Coogan “sneering,” saying the actor was looking down on Brexiteers, calling them “stupid and thick.” Morgan also called the actor an “idle Hollywood brat.”
In the lead up to the election, Coogan labeled Conservative voters as “ignorant and ill-informed,” saying the party needed to keep their voters that way to win. Grant, in the run-up to the election, called Conservatives “bad people” that need “to be stopped.”
Johnson and the Conservatives snapped up at least 365 seats in the election, enough to command the party’s strongest majority since Margaret Thatcher. Labor, the leading opposition party, had its worst performance since World War II.
