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Jeremy Clarkson says strikers should be shot

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kerstina · 01/12/2011 09:41

AIBU to think he is a prize prat I don't care if he is trying to be funny and shocking he is just another reason why I never have and never will vote Tory.

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Capricorn76 · 01/12/2011 12:08

The funny thing is, he is probably the countrys highest paid public servant seeing as he's paid by the BBC from our money. He's vile. I can 100% guarantee that if I wrote 'Jeremy Clarkson should be murdered in front of his family' on the internet, the police wouldn't take it as a joke and I would be in court for incitement.

2 lads get 4 years for encouraging people to riot of Facebook (which didn't happen)and Clarkson advocates murder on live tv and his Chipping Norton chum who happens to be the PM says it was just a joke so leave him alone. One rule for them, another for us as I'm sure if I 'joked' about murdering Clarkson, Cameron would be calling me an example of broken Britain of some such bollocks.

SinicalSal · 01/12/2011 12:11

do you think so Ry? how strange, isn't it more likley they stumbled across them looking for Fun Tshirts or whatever. You don't seem to have much respect for people who don't like the same things as you. Perhaps you should take your own advice and only comment on things that you approve of.

TheRhubarb · 01/12/2011 12:12

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CLARKSON STOOD IN FRONT OF A WALL AND SHOT IN FRONT OF HIS OWN FAMILY

There, I said it. Arrest me now!

When watching the clip, do make sure you watch the bit where he said he supports the strikers before then offering to give a balanced view.

daveywarbeck · 01/12/2011 12:12

YABU for watching the One Show. Pitiful television.

JC says these things to annoy people, particularly lefties. It is funny that it works so effectively after years and years. You should have built up an immunity by now. I manage to chuckle benevolently at Bob Crow.

post · 01/12/2011 12:12

Stewart Lee does a great routine about Clarkson/ top gear; I think it's on youtube.

coolascucumber · 01/12/2011 12:13

Only 15-20 second clips on YouTube, can't make my mind up without a full interview but I would guess that he doesn't take anything in life too seriously and his comments should be ignored, honestly who cares, he's a tv presenter not the head of the criminal justice system.

takingbackmonday · 01/12/2011 12:15

Unison have threatened to sue him!!!

Well done Unison for making JC the sane man in the room.

I agree with him Grin and with everyone bemoaning pious lefties.

HugosGoatee · 01/12/2011 12:16

NICE - I take issue with your judging of how strikers spend their day. The purpose of striking is to withdraw labour. They lose a day's pay. They can spend that day however they please as they are not being paid. Striking is a political and financial decision for each individual - whether they spend it baking cakes and being cheerful on FB or not.

rycooler · 01/12/2011 12:16

I like you SS - I really do.

daveywarbeck · 01/12/2011 12:17

2 lads get 4 years for encouraging people to riot of Facebook (which didn't happen)and Clarkson advocates murder on live tv and his Chipping Norton chum who happens to be the PM says it was just a joke so leave him alone. One rule for them, another for us as I'm sure if I 'joked' about murdering Clarkson, Cameron would be calling me an example of broken Britain of some such bollocks.

Oh dear God, it's called hyperbole. Lighten up. Unless that paragraph was an attempt at hyperbole of your own, it's not clear but I'm guessing not.

Maryz · 01/12/2011 12:17

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Capricorn76 · 01/12/2011 12:19

He's a knob-head but suing him is ridic, surely Unison have better things to do? They're just playing into his and the 'PC Gaaawwwn maaad' brigade's hands.

NinkyNonker · 01/12/2011 12:21

I'd love to do PR for Unison, they bloody well need it.

rycooler · 01/12/2011 12:22

Noooooooooo Unison - you will lose so much support, people don't want to spend their union fees suing men who host car programmes - you're fighting the government!

NICEyNice · 01/12/2011 12:22

HugosGoatee thats fine. But I have a lot less respect for people who do that. If they want to stay at home fine, but its not going to win support from me. I believe in passion though and showing that if you stand up for what you believe in.

Anyway, I'm thinking that JC would be a good PM. Can you imagine international summits? He could bring in James May's idea for a universal law of "Don't be a dick". That would be amusing...

grovel · 01/12/2011 12:23

There's some Unison woman on 5 Live now. She is ridiculous.

Sparklingbrook · 01/12/2011 12:24

JC is going to be 'probed by the police' apparently. Grin

daveywarbeck · 01/12/2011 12:25

I heard some woman on TV yesterday (when asked what she said to her private sector friends who are also facing pension/paycuts but don't strike) saying that she doesn't have any friends who work in the private sector because she only wants to be friends with people who help others. This is not hearts and minds winning stuff people.

Maryz · 01/12/2011 12:25

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daveywarbeck · 01/12/2011 12:26

God, I hope he asks them why they aren't out catching some proper criminals.

Capricorn76 · 01/12/2011 12:26

@Daveywarbeck. You clearly love JC but please don't patronise me, I can take a joke with the best of them. However, what I said is it's 100% true. 2 boys were given 4 years (their lives ruined) for talking bollocks about rioting on the internet that nobody even listened to. They were probably joking, pissed or bigging themselves up too. Cameron says arrest them and give people like that max sentences. Clarkson suggests murdering people on TV and he's backed by the PM. I am not allowed to say what I like in public but Cameron's mates are. It's not even what he said, it's the fact that people are being treated differently that winds me up.

QuintessentialyFestive · 01/12/2011 12:26

Jeremy Clarkson needs to give me ONE OF HIS CARS. JUST ONE.

The union needs to be realistic and stop acting like greedy fuckers.

working9while5 · 01/12/2011 12:27

Hmmmm... don't think there should be as much outrage as there is about this. This is a man whose idea of "working for a living" is trashing ludicrously expensive cars and guffawing about speed cameras, who could probably buy 6 or 7 years of those "gilt edged NHS pensions" if he sold just one of his fancy cars. It wasn't a particularly funny or incisive comment, it doesn't need any attention and I'm not sure why it's getting so much.

daveywarbeck · 01/12/2011 12:30

They might have been joking, but it was a joke made at a time when actual riots were going on and as such could have been construed as encouraging actual criminality.

If there had been unrest and violence at of yesterday's demos you might have a slight point in drawing this comparison, but there wasn't so you don't.

As for being patronising, don't make it so easy then.

daveywarbeck · 01/12/2011 12:31

And I hope you were similarly disgusted when John Prescott punched someone in the face and Tony Blair laughed it off saying "oh, John was just being John."