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Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker, and Benedict Cumberbatch join more than 300 figures urging PM to 'end UK complicity' in Gaza

news.sky.com Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker, and Benedict Cumberbatch join more than 300 figures urging PM to 'end UK complicity' in Gaza

Famous names from the arts and media world have joined doctors, academics and a Holocaust survivor to urge Sir Keir Starmer to end arms sales.

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news.sky.com /story/dua-lipa-gary-lineker-and-benedict-cumberbatch-join-more-than-300-figures-urging-pm-to-end-uk-complicity-in-gaza-13376183

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Pressure from famous people really shouldn't be allowed to shape national policy, but man in this case I'm not complaining. Good on them.
- it's a good way to show popularity. right or wrong.
- There's 44,999,700 non-famous people also urging the PM to end UK complicity in Gaza, but that's not going to sell clicks
- Some politicians are famous too. Politicians these days don't seem smart and in America especially, we're not electing the smartest bunch. We actually elected a reality TV star. Famous people have a platform and they see what we see also.
  
  Republicans have elected celebrities without political background into the highest office in the country four times
  
  Same with Boris.
  The rest come from journalism.
  
  Boris was a journalist before politics.
  
  Yeah I know, that's what got him started on being a celebrity.
  
  A journalist caught making stuff up shouldn't be called one
  
  Huh, I thought I followed UK politics pretty closely for a foreigner but I had no idea he had a celebrity background.
  
  He always did the comedy news panels like Have I Got News For You. Built his profile in the media. Not exactly a celebrity, but one of the most known in terms of TV profile.
  
  @glimse @G4Z
  Depends on your definition of 'celebrity', I guess.
  
  Never had a real job has he?
  
  @G4Z I'm sure he's been on the receiving end of many jobs. Ahem. Yuck.
  
  Obviously not Reagan as he was leader of SAG-AFTRA, so apart from Trump who were the other three?
- Literally hundreds of celebrities from entertainment to sports, and every organisation couldn't shut up about ukraine.
  They were sooo involved, concerned and activist.
  Easy if it supports 'our side'.
  Where are they now?
  Bunch of hypocrites.
  It was the same with any war.
  When it's long over they were always against it.
- There is a famous post from, I think the guitar player for rage against the machine where someone calls him out for being just another celebrity that shouldn't have a political opinion. He claps back with his political Science degree. Celebrities are people. They can be extremely intelligent. Marketing/PR reps and talent managers are the clueless ones that have made celebrity synonymous with stupidity.

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