Ray Winstone has said he is taxed too highly and that he may leave the country. Photograph: Urs Flueeler/EPA
It verges on comical, Ray Winstone's complaint about high tax.
Wasn't he paying any attention when he was starring in Robin of
Sherwood? More seriously, Winstone has also acted in films such as Nil
by Mouth and Scum – brilliant examples of British social-realist cinema.
He nevertheless has so little insight into the current state of this
country that he reckons this is a good time to complain about being
"raped" by high taxes. Not that there's ever a good time to suggest that
you've been raped by anyone or anything apart from, let's see … Yes, a
RAPIST. Like in, say, Scum. Watch one or two of those movies you've been
in, loving your work while you are being well rewarded for it, Ray, and
learn something from them. The rest of us watch them, after all –
that's what pays your apparently meagre wages.
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