‘We’re being ruled by LUXEMBOURG’ Sir Michael Caine rages at Brussels and EU boss Juncker
SIR Michael Caine has revealed he backed Brexit because he doesn’t want Britain to be controlled by EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker who “doesn’t seem to like us”.
By REBECCA PERRING
Express.co.uk
Wed, Sep 6, 2017
The British film icon said Britain was being “run by a man called Mr Juncker” – the European Commission President, a former prime minister of Luxembourg.
During the Venice Film festival, he said: “Up until up until I was 20, I thought Luxembourg was a radio station.
“I didn’t even know it was a country and now he’s running my country and he doesn’t seem to like us”.
He said his decision to leave the Brussels club was not based on economics or immigration, but because “I’d rarer be a poor master of my own fate than a rich servant someone else’s”.
This is not the first time the Italian Job actor has waded into the Brexit debate.
Sir Michael, 84, told Sky News earlier this year: “I voted for Brexit… what it is with me, I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant.
“It wasn’t about the racism, immigrants or anything – it was about freedom.”
He added: “Politics is always chaotic. In politics, you’re always going into areas you’ve never been before, so you’re going to get lost and then you’re going to find your way, and then it’ll be all right.”
Ahead of last year’s momentous European Union referendum, Sir Michael also hit out at Brussels’ “faceless civil servants”.
He added: “To me, you’ve not got in Europe a sort of government by-proxy of everybody, who has now got carried away.
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