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ANGRY BIRD

  • annawhitehouse
  • 13 mrt 2015
  • 3 minuten om te lezen

She's back! Our resident ranter Michelle Harris takes Jeremy Clarkson down a peg or two

Unless you have been living in the boot of a reasonably-priced car this week, you’ll have heard about the suspension of Jeremy Clarkson from the BBC following a ‘fracas’ with a producer. For ‘fracas’, read he punched the bloke midway through a tantrum about his din-dins. A suspension for violence in the workplace is pretty standard, one would think, but not so, it would seem, for this odious loudmouth. The nation has rushed to excuse his actions, a campaign to reinstate him has 788,223 signatures as I type, and even the Prime Minister has gallumphed to Clarkson’s defence. Why? How has this racist, sexist, homophobic old gobshite become the nation’s sweetheart? It makes me feel a bit sick.

Call me crazy, but I am sad to live in a world where a petition to get this moron back on the Beeb has more signatures than one calling for an end to female genital mutilation. I am disappointed in the British public that it is this news story that has motivated them off their collective backsides, and that those of us not in full support of Clarkson are dismissed as ‘the pc gone mad brigade’. Apparently him punching a colleague is excusable because maybe the guy deserved a punch. Apparently Clarkson is a legend, a comedy genius whose rudeness is ‘just how he is’. Numerous times when reading about his story, I have been reminded by Clarkson cronies that he is ‘not as bad as Saville’. Quite. But just because he did not sexually abuse children, doesn’t mean I have to like him, does it? Cameron called him ‘a good friend’ and a ‘huge talent’ and fellow insult-machine Katie Hopkins also unsurprisingly called his suspension ‘Lefty lunacy’.

For reasons I cannot fathom, people seem to relish and respect the bile spouted by such characters as being straight-talking, maverick, ‘telling it like it is’. Clarkson has become in the minds of his fans some kind of underdog freedom fighter who has been persecuted for his bravery. I call it bollocks. There is nothing brave about being a bigot. Homophobia, sexism and racism have been around a long time: Clarkson is not doing anything new or groundbreaking here. He’s not ‘telling it like it is’ he is being prejudiced and offensive. This is the man who uses the n-word, who called Gordon Brown a ‘one-eyed idiot’ and who has made jokes about the autistic, parked in disabled bays, targeted black people, lesbians, Muslims, all in pitiful attempts at humour. Please tell me this is not ‘how it is’. He is not a maverick: he is a nauseatingly rich Tory voter who's pals with the PM and dresses like he’s off to the allotment. I’m looking for a redeeming feature, but there aren’t any.

Anyone who thinks the suspension is an over-reaction needs to go into his or her place of work on Monday, punch someone and see what happens. Clarkson probably won’t be sacked; realistically the BBC need their cash cow more than he needs them. But he should be sacked. In fact the only real question here is how this cantankerous, embittered, unsavoury character has been allowed to get away with his smug self-congratulating bullshit for this long. I want to see him replaced by a black woman in a wheelchair. In fact, I am thinking of starting a petition…

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