Michael Caine to back Conservatives in the next election
November 2, 2009
Movie legend Michael Caine has announced that he may very well decide to vote Conservative at the next general election. The seventy-six-year-old actor said that the U.K. was in such a terrible state politically, financially and socially that it might just be the time to give someone else a go at sorting it out. He admitted that he didn’t really know what Cameron would do to fix things but added that it had got to a point where people were going to vote for the other party out of desperation.
Caine recently hit out at Labour’s plans to increase the upper tax rate to fifty pence. He said that it was outrageous that he had to get up at six in the morning to go to work just to pay for a bunch of layabouts. He said that there was no way that he was going to give the government more than he got and even threatened to move out of the U.K. if the higher level of tax is introduced.
Caine’s latest film, Harry Brown deals with the subject of increasing violence on the U.K. streets. A number of the extras were cast from gangs from inner city council estates and Caine says that the film is a warning to people as to how bad the situation is getting. He said that the government should be trying to educate young people who get involved in the violent lifestyle of gangs instead of just sending them to prison. He said that there needed to be more places where the young could go to learn practical skills.
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