TWO CUT-UP-ROUGH DIAMONDS

Michael Caine is shocked and saddened that police funding has been slashed.

The star of Hatton Garden heist film King of Thieves said: “I couldn’t understand when they said there was going to be less police and we are closing police stations. You go, wait a minute, hmm, unbelievable.”

Those cuts are also angering the film’s co-star, Ray Winstone, who said they’ve made it “very tough for the police in London”.

What a pair of diamond geezers standing up against the decimation of public services through Tory austerity, you might think.

If so, you’d be wrong. Because for years they have whinged from their public platform about paying the tax that funds our police.

Five years ago Winstone said he was thinking of emigrating due to being “raped” by the taxman, and in 2008 he moaned about too many scumbags on benefits not paying taxes (despite getting rich playing scumbags and being made bankrupt for not paying his taxes). When Labour raised the top tax rate to 50p to deal with the banking crisis, Caine moaned about funding “layabouts” and warned that if his tax went up another 1% he’d leave the country for good (not just the eight years he had done when he was a tax exile in America).

They ain’t diamond geezers. Nah. Just geezers who like to keep all their hard-earned diamonds to themselves, while expecting someone else to pay our police for taking all the slaaaaaags off the streets. CELLING OUT Winstone and Caine in heist film