Yeah but isn't that partly because you're acknowledging that yours is bad too though right, that it's a sort of exaggerated piss-take not to be taken seriously ? If I were genuinely trying to pass as cockney i'd probably aim more for someone off Eastenders.

It was a pretty decent attempt I thought. To me the mark of a good fake accent is how long it'd take a native to spot it and coming in blind, avoiding dialect words and cultural references I think I might take up to 5 minutes with Zellweger's Bridget Jones before realising. Which isn't bad really.

Pretty much everyone attempting a British accent does the same in fact. I've heard some decent RP or generic south-eastern England accents from American actors for instance but I don't think i've heard a single good regional British accent from a non-Brit (Josh Hartnett in "Blow Dry" is one of my personal high water…

Yep. The lines in his first scene, where he's about to have his hand cut off, have a fairly English sound to them then he more or less seems to stop bothering.

He makes some sort of attempt for about the first 15 screen minutes then apparently gives up.

Yeah, it's a corker. With Lambert they sort of try to lampshade it a bit (when the cop says he talks funny and asks him where he's from he says "Lots of different places" - which doesn't explain his accent in the 16th century highlands flashbacks of course) but Connery playing a Spaniard with a broad Scots accent just…

This guy gets it !

That's exactly how I spelled it when googling it the other week (happily it does actually get you to the correct meaning).

Yeah but it's totally going to trickle down ! Just you wait. Anytime now. Well, now-ish.

Are you being ironic at the end there or do you genuinely believe that you're now somehow out from under the media and political elite's influence (i'm not sure if you mean because Trump's coming to power and will fix it or because people voted for him despite all the reasons not to which the media presumably…

There's a miltary base there though, it'll probably get nuked when some enterprising Scot digs a trench across all Trump's golf courses.

Invent new "foreigners" e.g. those born and bred in your country but of a different religion, colour or sexuality.

No, the Sun will turn into a red giant and swallow the Earth (probably - its loss of mass could also lead to the Earth's orbit widening so that it's not actually swallowed but Earthbound life will have already been extinguished by then). Our sun isn't anything like massive enough to supernova.

Economy tanks, poor people get poorer, poorer people look for someone to blame, foreigners will do. New tune, same refrain.

There's that American optimism !

Teensiest of upsides though, at least we've lost our number 1 spot as Dumbest Western Democracy. Admit it, there's a tiny part of you that would've been embarrassed if we'd voted Brexit but the Yanks did the sensible thing.

That's the thing about democracy, you get the government you deserve. Or when it's not fundamentally broken you do anyway.

Nah, he won't mind if old Putesy-Wootsy says it, they're BFFs after all. But that guy in France ? _And_ they have a lot of Muslims living there. To Trump that's a two-fer.

Yeah, pretty much everything he's done barring Broadchurch S1 doesn't bode well for him running Who (his episodes of that were passable although not great but his 'Torchwood' eps range from not great to contenders for the worst TV episodes i've ever watched - 'Children of Earth', the best 'Torchwood' series by quite a…

Wrote, directed and starred in it in fact, yer actual triple threat.