Here in Britain Britain Britain
Now before I progress I
need to point out that I am a rather left wing chap politically and a firm
believer in equality irrespective of gender colour nationality wealth or
disability. We should all have the same opportunities in life where possible to
achieve our goals and do the things we wish to do. I know I am an idealist because even the so
called left wing counties in the world are far from equal; in fact some are
worse than the so called Decadent West.
This brings us back to Mr
Jeremy Clarkson who we are told is rather/very right wing chap politically. As
I do not know him in person I can only be guided by the media. You see over the
years he has reputedly said some terrible things, many of them on the very
popular Top Gear. Now I watch this program, I like it, and find it rather
entertaining and I have heard some of the comments and the like that have made
the news. And to me as a lefty idealist he has always appeared to be a bit
devilish rather than racist or sexist, he just likes to have a little dig at
the modern paranoia for political correctness.
He is a very good motoring journalist and does a brilliant job on Top
Gear, it is not his fault that this has made him very rich, and rich folk tend
to be right wing. I suspect he is also something a Prima Dona after a rather
charmed life as a celebrity but to me he has a dry wit, a way with words and is
a great driver (or appears to be on the show).
So what has brought us to
the suspension of Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson well it appears after a long day
of filming the crew arrived back at their hotel at 10pm to a cold buffet. This
led Mr Clarkson to let rip verbally at one of the producers and we are told man
handle him a bit (exact details are a bit grey). Well I suspect he was tired
and hungry and probably stressed, he is almost as old as me, OK a bit younger,
but as you get older you need a decent meal at some point in the day. And its
no good thinking he is a TV celeb so its all pink champagne and letting the
fans lick his boots, he works like the rest of us, yes it’s a great job (OK I
don’t really work a lot these days) but a job is a job and after a long day
where you are expecting a meal at a hotel you really should get it.
Just imagine a group of
miners arriving back at the surface after a long dayin the mine to be told the
canteen is serving a cold salad, would they smile and say Oooooooo YUM. . . . I
think not.
So BBC if you read this
(which is unlikely as I am merely a member of the public with idealist left
wing tendencies) just get everyone to say sorry to each other shake hands and
get Top Gear back on the TV and Mr Clarkson back driving round that track
telling us that This car steers like a
python covered in grease on a frozen pond in Norwich on a cold wet Sunday while
being watched by nuns . . . Oooo hang on you WOULDN'T get nuns in Norwich.
Letters of complain,
demanding the sacking of Mr C the following week because of the implications of
no nuns in Norwich
