Ray Winstone mocked after threat to quit UK over taxes

'Is he gone yet?' ask Twitter users after actor claims Britain is 'being raped by high taxes'

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 03: Ray Winstone attends The Sweeney - UK Film Premiere at Vue Leicester Square on September 3, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart Wilson/Getty Image
(Image credit: 2012 Getty Images)

ACTOR Ray Winstone has attracted ridicule after claiming high taxes could drive him out of Britain "quite soon". Winstone, famed for his 'hard man' roles in films like Sexy Beast and The Sweeney, told Talksport radio: "I love this country, but I've had enough of it, I don't see what we're being given back. I just see the country being raped."

He went on: "I drive down the road and there's more holes in the road than what there is in a tennis racket, you know."

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