Actor Martin Freeman, well-known for portraying Tim Canterbury in The Office, Dr Watson in Sherlock and Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit film trilogy, appeared in a Labour Party election broadcast in the run-up to last year's General Election in which he told us why he had decided to vote for Labour in the election.
But now the 44-year-old says it’s unfair to call all Tories ‘evil’, as the left has been responsible for more deaths in recent years:
Labour’s election star on ‘evil left-wing bastards’
Steerpike
6 February 2016
The Spectator
Since Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, the party have had a fair few run-ins with dictators of the past. After Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell quoted Chairman Mao during the budget, Corbyn then cited Enver Hoxha at the Labour Christmas party — while his director of comms Seumas Milne has questioned just how many deaths Stalin actually brought about.
Happily some prominent Labour members are happy to talk about the shortcomings of such dictators. In an interview with The Rake, Martin Freeman — who starred in Labour’s election broadcast when Ed Miliband was leader — says it’s unfair to call all Tories ‘evil’, as the left has been responsible for more deaths in recent years:
Freeman starred as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's The Office between 2001 and 2003
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But now the 44-year-old says it’s unfair to call all Tories ‘evil’, as the left has been responsible for more deaths in recent years:
Labour’s election star on ‘evil left-wing bastards’
Steerpike
6 February 2016
The Spectator
Since Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, the party have had a fair few run-ins with dictators of the past. After Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell quoted Chairman Mao during the budget, Corbyn then cited Enver Hoxha at the Labour Christmas party — while his director of comms Seumas Milne has questioned just how many deaths Stalin actually brought about.
Happily some prominent Labour members are happy to talk about the shortcomings of such dictators. In an interview with The Rake, Martin Freeman — who starred in Labour’s election broadcast when Ed Miliband was leader — says it’s unfair to call all Tories ‘evil’, as the left has been responsible for more deaths in recent years:
‘My team — the left, generally — has been responsible for more deaths in the last century than the other team if you count Stalin, Mao, the Khmer Rouge, the Shining Path… that’s not a good team.
Freeman adds that left-wingers are actually ‘quite at home with evil bastards’:
The left is quite at home with evil bastards, actually. Religion doesn’t have a downpayment on genocide: there are atheists, materialists and socialists who have gone on quite happily with rape and murder.’
Despite this, Freeman — who once voted for Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party — is right behind Corbyn and his leadership:
‘I’ve been really encouraged by Corbyn, because he uses the word ‘kindness’ a lot.’
Vive la Revolution!
Freeman starred as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's The Office between 2001 and 2003
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