Peter Hitchens thinks we'll all be saved if we become religious (tell that to the abused children the Archbishop of Canterbury is currently apologising to) and David Cameron seems to have, finally, changed his mind about hugging a hoodie to combat crime on our streets. Tony Bliar is trying to secure the last of our liberty before he goes (good riddance) and other Labour ministers couldn't speak to a group of the voting public, who wanted to discuss the opening of a probation house for paedophiles near schools, because they were "too busy". The Red Cross don't want to be seen as a Christian organisation and a 10yr old boy was cautioned by police officers, at his home, for calling his best friend 'gay'. His best friend told his mum.. who complained to the police... who promptly called round and cautioned the boy. If they'd have been burgled they'd have just got a crime number!
You really can't make it up!
Philipa, Middle, England
Well Jeremy stop complaining and do what I did, come and move to Vancouver. Canada is more British than Britain and that’s the truth. And their loads of room for the roller with fuel not being that expensive either.
You can still have your Queen and eat it oops I mean cake ;)
David Aspinall, Vancouver, Canada
for gods sake Jeremy, stand as an independent Parliamentary candidate.
simon mawdsley, london, uk
Is this ten yard corridor round the coast when the tides in or out?
G Pat, Warsaw, Scotland
Imagine this....
Dr Jezza and his good friend Adrian Gill decide to form a political party devoted to making this country great again, banning political correctness, getting rid of speed cameras, banning lentil botherers, banning the service charge in restaurants, and upholding the right of everyone born in this country to live free from state intrusion, and do whatever they like in the privacy of their own homes, including the right to shoor any council tax snooper who comes for a nose around in hope of raising your council tax ever higher. JC AND AA FOR PARLIAMENT!!! I'd vote for them
Karen Mc, Skelmersdale , Lancashire
As a man who hails from Birmingham (well, Worcestershire anyway) I have every reason to despise Mr Clarkson and his forthright views.. But he is, let's face it, the only person in Britain who talks sense (even if he is sometimes a little garbled, what with that tongue in his cheek and all).
I would congratulate him on another fantastic commentary on this sceptic Isle, but I fear he will be doing far more interesting things on a Sunday, than reading us lot!
Mark, Birmingham, UK
Jeremy, please start a new party. You'd be elected no sweat...
Brian, Horley, Surrey
Thanks again Clarkson, for making me question -- even if only for a few minutes -- all of my social and political values.
Jesse Robertson, Melbourne, Victoria Australia
But in a sense Simon Cowell does GIVE to the exchequer. Just because he earns more (and has been more successfully) why should he proportionally have to pay more to the government. In effect, by his success he is actually supporting the rest of us. So we're now sponging off the rich... Sure we complain about the taxes we have to pay but that's nothing compared to those with more money!
Bob, Bournemouth, Dorset
Well done JC like you I suffer from constant harrassment in respect of the land that I own which borders a harbour.Not content with a right of way the thought police at Defra now want total access ie they are trying to steal my land. How come I am not a victim? Every other minority is and as a result we have to pander to their every whim. And how come in this Blair democracy those who are most affected are the least represented. I feel like putting corregated iron over the windows and running away. Do they have this problem in Hull?
ray nottage, Wessex, U.K.
I was never born with a silver spoon in my mouth like Mr C. Also he is not someone i particularly like to meet, but i can't help but agree with most of what he says.
There really is an anti success thing going on in the UK as a whole, if you want to see how that pans out just look north to scotland where we have size one men/women in size 10 jobs and a desire to punish success.
no wonder burberry do a roaring trade to the chav's
Billy, Edinburgh,
The trouble is, Jeremy, that the lumpen proletariat have been given the vote. Not unnaturally the working classes use it in ways that are expedient to them and not the middle classes who employ them. That has nearly always been the case. What's different now is that a whole section of the middle class (the Poly Toynbee generation) themselves now vote Labour. They do this out of a miss-placed guilt for a British Empire they are too young to have actually experienced. So foxy-woxy's hunters are the hunted, the Greenham lebos decide on Trident's replacement, and Gordon Brown is able to shoe-horn himself into the top job as though he were a Prince of Wales in waiting. What's to be done? Well for starters people like you who come from the north should go back home and vote against Labour. That at least might give the Tories a sporting chance. But there again, with lefty-Cameron at the helm, it might not change things anyway. Perhaps you should just enjoy driving your Roller while you can.
Adrian Gilbert, Tonbridge, England
What's excellent about this is that if you ever read Brendan O'Neill's columns in The Guardian or on Spiked, he always says that the environmentalists' campaign against 4x4s is based on class hatred...of the working class. See, according to O'Neill, 4x4s aren't driven by middle-class people at all but by working-class people who've earned a bit of money. Similarly, the campaign against short-haul flights is a campaign against working-class people taking holidays in Spain. And then all the stuff about having nutritious school dinners is an attack on working-class people who like turkey twizzlers.
So there you go...are environmentalists motivated by hatred of the working-class or of the middle-class?
Hey, maybe it's neither - maybe they're just concerned about the environment. Now that would be weird, wouldn't it?
Elisabeth, London, UK
Pollution is something which is not desirable given the facts that we have been given on global climate change. Is it such a bad thing to break the link between wealth and carbon emissions? Should the goal of every rich person be to accumulate things that they don’t necessarily need? Is it wrong to target excess? (fat people should be targeted both rich and poor…fat kids don’t eat porridge)
Wealth targeting is most certainly happening, however, perhaps it should be remembered that there is more to Class than simple finances. Education is by far the biggest advantage the higher classes have over the lower so why then do they act so childishly in the face of such blatant facts.
This seems to mark the start of a growth industry. How do you show that you are successful without polluting the environment. Zorbe balls are pretty expensive, maybe we will come full circle…foxhunting requires one horse power right?
Danny Draper, London,
Regarding the extended congestion charge zone, I read that the car owners in the new zone get a rebate as they are residents and now, instead of paying £8 a day to go to work, it costs them £4 a WEEK.
Nice one Ken, Prescott couldn't have done it better!
Harry Kennard, Peasmarsh, East Sussex...UK
so should we have Tory back now? : )
David, Manchester,
why dont we send kenlivingstone to alabama usa ecomony class / one way only//
pauline muir, glasgow, scotland
As usual, absolutely right. No one's going to listen, because they all dismiss you as either just a motoring journalist or as a mad right-wing twit. It's a shame because out of all the people writing at the moment you're one of the most spot on. Although they could be refusing to listen because they know it's true, just in denial now someone's cottoning on...
Eva, York,
Since New Labour has been in power top executive salaries have risen 38%. Workers salaries have risen 3.7%. The gap between the rich and the poor is greater than under any Tory government. I have not had a salary increase for 5 years because my company do what the government tell them to. We 'scruffy poor' (actually I'm a Line of Business Manager for a large corporation) are fed up with the pigs at the trough lining their pockets. It is nice, however, that some of them care enough to dispense some crumbs: But most rich people use tax avoidance methods anyway. I like you Jeremy, but cannot feel much sympathy for the privileged. The poor don't want charity handouts they want decent salaries!
Alan McThredder, Southwick, England
To hell with the middle classes; by and large, they're a waste of space. As is motormouth...
Philip, Edinburgh,
Being one of the handful of people that have actually walked around the coastline of Britain (see The Times, 21.11.89.), I can confidently tell you that a coastal path around the entire country just isn't needed. It's just another insane idea that needs to be dropped. The sooner the better.
Why not spend the money on something that actually needs to be done? How about fixing the water supply problem so you don't need hosepipe bans in a country where it's perpetually raining? Or perhaps on a clean energy solution? Reforestation? Or better still, reopen some casualty wards so that people in Scotland don't have to wait hours for an ambulance! Do something useful with the money, for heaven's sake!
Summer is coming, out here in China anyway. I think I'll stay here and enjoy it.
Mark, Hong Kong,
Peter Hitchens thinks we'll all be saved if we become religious (tell that to the abused children the Archbishop of Canterbury is currently apologising to) and David Cameron seems to have, finally, changed his mind about hugging a hoodie to combat crime on our streets. Tony Bliar is trying to secure the last of our liberty before he goes (good riddance) and other Labour ministers couldn't speak to a group of the voting public, who wanted to discuss the opening of a probation house for paedophiles near schools, because they were "too busy". The Red Cross don't want to be seen as a Christian organisation and a 10yr old boy was cautioned by police officers, at his home, for calling his best friend 'gay'. His best friend told his mum.. who complained to the police... who promptly called round and cautioned the boy. If they'd have been burgled they'd have just got a crime number!
You really can't make it up!
Philipa, Middle, England
Well Jeremy stop complaining and do what I did, come and move to Vancouver. Canada is more British than Britain and that’s the truth. And their loads of room for the roller with fuel not being that expensive either.
You can still have your Queen and eat it oops I mean cake ;)
David Aspinall, Vancouver, Canada
for gods sake Jeremy, stand as an independent Parliamentary candidate.
simon mawdsley, london, uk
Is this ten yard corridor round the coast when the tides in or out?
G Pat, Warsaw, Scotland
Imagine this....
Dr Jezza and his good friend Adrian Gill decide to form a political party devoted to making this country great again, banning political correctness, getting rid of speed cameras, banning lentil botherers, banning the service charge in restaurants, and upholding the right of everyone born in this country to live free from state intrusion, and do whatever they like in the privacy of their own homes, including the right to shoor any council tax snooper who comes for a nose around in hope of raising your council tax ever higher. JC AND AA FOR PARLIAMENT!!! I'd vote for them
Karen Mc, Skelmersdale , Lancashire
As a man who hails from Birmingham (well, Worcestershire anyway) I have every reason to despise Mr Clarkson and his forthright views.. But he is, let's face it, the only person in Britain who talks sense (even if he is sometimes a little garbled, what with that tongue in his cheek and all).
I would congratulate him on another fantastic commentary on this sceptic Isle, but I fear he will be doing far more interesting things on a Sunday, than reading us lot!
Mark, Birmingham, UK
Jeremy, please start a new party. You'd be elected no sweat...
Brian, Horley, Surrey
Thanks again Clarkson, for making me question -- even if only for a few minutes -- all of my social and political values.
Jesse Robertson, Melbourne, Victoria Australia
But in a sense Simon Cowell does GIVE to the exchequer. Just because he earns more (and has been more successfully) why should he proportionally have to pay more to the government. In effect, by his success he is actually supporting the rest of us. So we're now sponging off the rich... Sure we complain about the taxes we have to pay but that's nothing compared to those with more money!
Bob, Bournemouth, Dorset
Well done JC like you I suffer from constant harrassment in respect of the land that I own which borders a harbour.Not content with a right of way the thought police at Defra now want total access ie they are trying to steal my land. How come I am not a victim? Every other minority is and as a result we have to pander to their every whim. And how come in this Blair democracy those who are most affected are the least represented. I feel like putting corregated iron over the windows and running away. Do they have this problem in Hull?
ray nottage, Wessex, U.K.
I was never born with a silver spoon in my mouth like Mr C. Also he is not someone i particularly like to meet, but i can't help but agree with most of what he says.
There really is an anti success thing going on in the UK as a whole, if you want to see how that pans out just look north to scotland where we have size one men/women in size 10 jobs and a desire to punish success.
no wonder burberry do a roaring trade to the chav's
Billy, Edinburgh,
The trouble is, Jeremy, that the lumpen proletariat have been given the vote. Not unnaturally the working classes use it in ways that are expedient to them and not the middle classes who employ them. That has nearly always been the case. What's different now is that a whole section of the middle class (the Poly Toynbee generation) themselves now vote Labour. They do this out of a miss-placed guilt for a British Empire they are too young to have actually experienced. So foxy-woxy's hunters are the hunted, the Greenham lebos decide on Trident's replacement, and Gordon Brown is able to shoe-horn himself into the top job as though he were a Prince of Wales in waiting. What's to be done? Well for starters people like you who come from the north should go back home and vote against Labour. That at least might give the Tories a sporting chance. But there again, with lefty-Cameron at the helm, it might not change things anyway. Perhaps you should just enjoy driving your Roller while you can.
Adrian Gilbert, Tonbridge, England
What's excellent about this is that if you ever read Brendan O'Neill's columns in The Guardian or on Spiked, he always says that the environmentalists' campaign against 4x4s is based on class hatred...of the working class. See, according to O'Neill, 4x4s aren't driven by middle-class people at all but by working-class people who've earned a bit of money. Similarly, the campaign against short-haul flights is a campaign against working-class people taking holidays in Spain. And then all the stuff about having nutritious school dinners is an attack on working-class people who like turkey twizzlers.
So there you go...are environmentalists motivated by hatred of the working-class or of the middle-class?
Hey, maybe it's neither - maybe they're just concerned about the environment. Now that would be weird, wouldn't it?
Elisabeth, London, UK
Pollution is something which is not desirable given the facts that we have been given on global climate change. Is it such a bad thing to break the link between wealth and carbon emissions? Should the goal of every rich person be to accumulate things that they don’t necessarily need? Is it wrong to target excess? (fat people should be targeted both rich and poor…fat kids don’t eat porridge)
Wealth targeting is most certainly happening, however, perhaps it should be remembered that there is more to Class than simple finances. Education is by far the biggest advantage the higher classes have over the lower so why then do they act so childishly in the face of such blatant facts.
This seems to mark the start of a growth industry. How do you show that you are successful without polluting the environment. Zorbe balls are pretty expensive, maybe we will come full circle…foxhunting requires one horse power right?
Danny Draper, London,
Regarding the extended congestion charge zone, I read that the car owners in the new zone get a rebate as they are residents and now, instead of paying £8 a day to go to work, it costs them £4 a WEEK.
Nice one Ken, Prescott couldn't have done it better!
Harry Kennard, Peasmarsh, East Sussex...UK
so should we have Tory back now? : )
David, Manchester,
why dont we send kenlivingstone to alabama usa ecomony class / one way only//
pauline muir, glasgow, scotland
As usual, absolutely right. No one's going to listen, because they all dismiss you as either just a motoring journalist or as a mad right-wing twit. It's a shame because out of all the people writing at the moment you're one of the most spot on. Although they could be refusing to listen because they know it's true, just in denial now someone's cottoning on...
Eva, York,
Since New Labour has been in power top executive salaries have risen 38%. Workers salaries have risen 3.7%. The gap between the rich and the poor is greater than under any Tory government. I have not had a salary increase for 5 years because my company do what the government tell them to. We 'scruffy poor' (actually I'm a Line of Business Manager for a large corporation) are fed up with the pigs at the trough lining their pockets. It is nice, however, that some of them care enough to dispense some crumbs: But most rich people use tax avoidance methods anyway. I like you Jeremy, but cannot feel much sympathy for the privileged. The poor don't want charity handouts they want decent salaries!
Alan McThredder, Southwick, England
To hell with the middle classes; by and large, they're a waste of space. As is motormouth...
Philip, Edinburgh,
Being one of the handful of people that have actually walked around the coastline of Britain (see The Times, 21.11.89.), I can confidently tell you that a coastal path around the entire country just isn't needed. It's just another insane idea that needs to be dropped. The sooner the better.
Why not spend the money on something that actually needs to be done? How about fixing the water supply problem so you don't need hosepipe bans in a country where it's perpetually raining? Or perhaps on a clean energy solution? Reforestation? Or better still, reopen some casualty wards so that people in Scotland don't have to wait hours for an ambulance! Do something useful with the money, for heaven's sake!
Summer is coming, out here in China anyway. I think I'll stay here and enjoy it.
Mark, Hong Kong,
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