Charlotte Gill

These celebrity lectures about Brexit are the absolute pits

Is there anything worse than celebrities lecturing us on Brexit? Tourists that walk slowly along Oxford Street, you say, or people who don’t get their money ready in a queue. Both reasonable contenders.

Still, it’s tough to beat snivelling, sanctimonious stars. And haven’t we had a lot of them as 23 June draws closer. They love telling us what to do, whether it’s voting remain – or remain.

Today’s latest offenders are Vivienne – frack off – Westwood, Lily Cole and Keira Knightley. They’ve launched a campaign aimed at young people, called #DontFuckMyFuture (because if there’s swearing involved, young people will definitely listen).

Each of them takes part in a short video. In Cole’s she holds her leg in the air, saying: ‘It only takes me five seconds to stretch my legs, and it only takes five seconds to mark an X in a ballot box.’

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