Cor stroike a loight. You’re bonkers, moite.

Did you go out of your way to find something to be offended at here? You appear to have completely missed the point of this posting and taken umbrage at what ever it was you imagined it said.

Some points I think I should address while Heather is away:

1 – Heather is English. Nothing in this posting was anti-English. Please re-read it to verify. This is an anti-religion / anti-rapture posting. If you are offended by the use of the term “guv’nor” then there is a whole raft of films you need to avoid watching.

2 – By no stretch of the imagination do the majority of English people have “cockney blood” unless you mean its red and contains haemoglobin. You could equally say the majority of people have scouse or geordie blood. Your blood is not tied to a geographical area. Assuming you were being metaphorical, you are still wrong. While London may have a large population, there are sill more people in the UK who live outside London. The majority of English people are unlikely to have “cockney” ancestors.

3 – Scottish is not a “race.” Saying a politician is Scottish is not racist, its a statement of fact. Calling someone Scottish is not derogatory unless you feel it is an insulting term. If that is the case then you may want to re-think your value structures. What Heather wrote didnt even criticise the Scottish politicians son, so what you took offence at is a bit lost to me.

4 – Interestingly, you dont seem to have read what “Libby Purves” on the times wrote about this. For a start it was written by Bess Twiston-Davies on Libby Purves’ blog. It is not really mocking of the film unless this is what you have taken umbrage with:

Apparently – this is where the story gets truly surreal – two rival East End gangs are locked in a race to get to the spear. The winning side must then match it with the Holy Grail in order to evoke the Rapture, or second coming of Jesus.

If that is what offended you, then you really need to re-adjust your filters.

5 – Since when did criticism of one (or more films) become the same as criticism of an entire industry? I think the Fiat Panda is a terrible car, but that is not an indictment of the car industry. I think the Nikon 55 – 200mm VR lens is abysmal but that isnt even a criticism of Nikon’s industry let alone the camera industry.

6 – Why do you think Heather is a writer in anything other than the sense she wrote this post? If that is the only sense, she is self evidently a writer so what are you questioning? If it helps, she is a statistician. “Big fat ass” is an odd turn of phrase for an English person to use, but as you can see the rest of your statement is fairly accurate.

Thank you for the anti english / cockney comments i.e ‘guv’nor’ – pathetic. A majority of us are or have cockney blood and appeciate small minded no nothing people like you. What’s with the ‘Scottish’ (raciest) polictian son remark. I like most enjoy and support the English film industry and it’s just a shame for racist unqualified people like Libby Purves comments mocking the english film industry without even seeing the film.

David

PS If indeed you are a writer which I doubt very much then you will know that comments which you send around come back around and bite you on your big fat ass ………….guv’nor !

Ray Winstone may not be in it but his daughter is. Plus the actor daughter of some other lovable tv cockney – from the Bill or something – along with the chap himself.

Those old East -End family values hey? Those East-enders know how to look after their own.

Firm but fair, those east end villains. They looked after each other in the East end in the old days. You could walk the East End without worrying about mugging, And they only nailed people’s heads to the floor when they really asked for it, by doing things like being cheeky to a lovable cockney villain’s mum. (And so on, ad nauseam…)

(Yes, sarcasm.)