OSCAR-WINNER Emma Thompson has been accused of "patronising" the electorate by a Bournemouth MP – after the actress branded Britain “a cake filled, misery-laden grey old island” during a pro-EU rant.

Conor Burns has responded by declaring that the 56-year-old Nanny McPhee star is welcome to leave the UK if she hates it so much and it is "debatable she would be missed".

The row began when Ms Thompson, who has reportedly earned more than £30million during her Hollywood career, made the remarks about the country's love for cake while describing the prospect of Britons voting to leave the EU as “madness”.

She said that Britain is a “tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe” and added: “We should be taking down borders, not putting them up.”

This prompted Bournemouth West’s Mr Burns, a long-standing Conservative Eurosceptic, to label her comments "frivolous and frankly rather stupid".

"I think it was a deliberate reference to the Great British Bake Off – one of the most popular television programmes enjoyed by millions of decent, ordinary people," he told the Daily Echo.

"I think Emma Thompson and her ilk just can’t get their head around ‘the little common people’ liking that sort of thing. These ‘little common people’ – as she sees them – are people that built an empire and who can guarantee Britain’s prosperity decades in the future when Emma Thompson and her like are long forgotten."

He said that Ms Thompson’s sentiments are of someone who “loathes the country and what it stands for".

"These over-paid fat-cat luvvies despise ordinary people and their views," said Mr Burns.

“What I can’t abide about comments like that are the way they look down in the most patronising, snobby way at ordinary British people – the sort of British people I am proud to represent in Bournemouth."

The recently appointed treasury parliamentary private secretary said contrary to Ms Thompson's statements, "the quiet common-ground majority of British people are very proud of our country".

Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron is set to begin last-gasp talks with European leaders today at a crucial Brussels summit.

If he secures a deal he will call a cabinet meeting, effectively firing the starting gun on the referendum battle, with a June 23 poll expected.