John Cleese supports Brexit: ‘May is like Thatcher but with a sense of humour’
COMIC John Cleese has told why he backed Brexit and how he is now extremely optimistic about the future of Britain outside the EU.
The legendary comedian came out in support of Brexit and Theresa May
The Fawlty Towers star, 76, told Radio Times he was “delighted” all the doom-mongers had been proven wrong about what would happen if Britain left the EU and said he liked new Prime Minister Theresa May, who he felt was like a “Margaret Thatcher with a sense of humour”.
He said: “I don’t think Brexit was a mistake. I’m rather delighted that all these forecasts of absolute doom and destruction have turned out, at this point, not to have been real.
Cleese said he quite liked the Prime Minister
I don’t want to be ruled by Brussels bureaucrats who want to create a super state
“I don’t want to be ruled by Brussels bureaucrats who want to create a super state. If I had three words to sum up why we had to get out of Europe they would be: Jean-Claude Juncker.
“He’s a little jumped-up Luxemb*****r who’s never really had a proper job.”
He did not however have nice things to say about Donald Trump
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Mr Cleese, who is the “most happy I’ve ever been” thanks to his “absolutely lovely” wife, Jennifer Wade, 45, despairs over Donald Trump: “I just don’t get it. I look at Trump and I see a narcissist, with no attention span, who makes it all up as he goes along.
“And to think, a large percentage of Americans are going to vote for him.”