Hollywood actress Dame Emma Thompson has disclosed her friends were forced to sell their homes following the turmoil sparked by Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s catastrophic mini Budget last September.
The market turmoil that followed the radical mini Budget spooked the markets and contributed to the rise in mortgage rates.
Speaking to LBC’s Andrew Marr, Emma Thompson, 63, said that she couldn’t believe it as it was unrolling.
She said that it was an extraordinary experience to look at, but what was so dreadful was that she worried about the country and about people’s situations and the money thing.
Thompson, whose net worth is said to be at around £40 million, was shocked at the fact that she had friends that literally had to sell their homes because they couldn’t afford their mortgages anymore.
She said that people in the middle, middle-resourced folk were suffering dreadfully and that it was mind-boggling.
Emma Thompson herself owns a £3 million house in London, a Scottish holiday home and another property in Venice, Italy.
This isn’t the first time Emma Thompson’s political comments have raised an eyebrow. The actress came out firmly as a Remainer back in 2016, telling a reporter at the Berlin International Film Festival that Britain was a tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort of Europe, a cake filled misery laden, grey old island.
She said that she feels European even though she lives in Great Britain, and in Scotland, and she said that of course she’s going to vote to remain in Europe, it would be madness not to.
She said it would be a crazy idea not to, and that we should be taking down borders, not putting them up.
More recently she encountered backlash after flying 5,400 miles from California to London in order to take part in an Extinction Rebellion climate change protest in 2019.
The Love Actually star subsequently admitted that the move was hypocritical but was not the story.
Speaking to ITV News later in the year she said that what does matter is that she gets criticised, and if you put your head up, that’s what’s going to occur, but she thought that what actually did matter is to point out that that’s not the story.
She said that she was really shocked by that actually because all these people know that she has to fly when she works, and that she lives here, and that she’s always lived here but sometimes she has to fly, and she said that she flies much less than she did but she does have to fly sometimes.
Emma Thompson has also dabbled in international geopolitics.
She’s also a champagne socialist, a typical do as I say and not as I do, and she’s worth £40 million. She could have helped out her friends if she wanted to.
Perhaps she meant that her friends had to sell their fourth home. Not the big house in London or the country pile in the Cotswolds, but other homes that were just now too unaffordable, so it had to go. Maybe we should get out our violins and play a little fiddle – times are tough and now they also have to economise.
So, basically, they were overstretched with their lifestyle – champagne lifestyle, lemonade income, and the talking media puppets have only one job and that’s to mislead. They lie and then they get a privileged life in return. From TV presenters in the mornings, they pump out propaganda, usually with another talking head expert so that they can both agree with each other exuberantly to persuade the sheeple that it must all be true.
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