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Old February 5th, 2011 #1
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Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson today fuelled the row over 'racist' remarks about Mexicans by further insulting them in his newspaper column.

While the BBC was forced to apologise over comments on the motoring show last week which saw co-host Richard Hammond describing Mexicans as 'lazy, feckless... and flatulent', Clarkson accused them of having no sense of humour.

In his Sun newspaper column today, the host attempted to make the point that without offensive humour, there can be no jokes.


In doing so, he quoted jokes about various nations - including Britain - to tailor his argument.

He wrote: '...there are calls in Britain at the moment for all offensive humour to be banned. But what people don't realise is that without offence, there can be no jokes.'

Despite earlier apologising for the show's 'feckless' comments, the loud mouth host then ended the column with his own joke about Mexicans: 'Mexico doesn't have an Olympic team... because anyone who can run, jump or swim is already across the border.'

He added that 'at one point on Wednesday we were receiving 200 complaints from Mexico every minute'.

His latest comments come after a Mexican instructed lawyers to bring a test case against Top Gear.

Iris de la Torre, a jewellery design student in London, is bringing the claim under a new equality law. Her lawyers claim it could cost the BBC £1million in damages.

They have demanded the hit BBC1 motoring show is taken off the air and an investigation made into the comments.

The lawyers, Equal Justice, have previously taken action against Channel 4 over comments about Indian actor Shilpa Shetty, made on Celebrity Big Brother.MPs have also now demanded that the BBC apologises over the 'ignorant, derogatory and racist remarks'.



Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza has called for the presenters to make a public apology for stirring 'bigoted feelings against the Mexican people'

They said: 'This level of ignorance is far below anything expected from anyone in the public eye and illustrates a serious lack of judgment by the programme-makers.'

The group wants the BBC to apologise as a 'matter of urgency' before Nick Clegg visits Mexico this month in case the row upsets diplomatic relations.

On Sunday night's show, Richard Hammond was discussing a Mexican sports car and suggested that vehicles reflect the national characteristics of the country they are from.

He added: 'Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.’

He also referred to Mexican food as 'refried sick' while fellow presenter James May said it was 'like sick with cheese on it'.

Host Jeremy Clarkson then claimed the ambassador to the UK wouldn't complain because he would be snoring in front of the television at his embassy.

But the ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza did make a formal complaint to the BBC and called on the presenters to make a public apology for stirring 'bigoted feelings against the Mexican people'.


The legal complaint on behalf of Miss de la Torre claims the comments were unlawful and broke rules banning discrimination of public bodies, according to the Guardian.

She told the paper: 'I was shocked at what the BBC allowed to be broadcast. I have never had a bad experience in the UK due to my nationality. I do not understand how such ignorant people hold such high-profile jobs.'

Equal Justice have written to the BBC in what could be the first step to bringing a case. The next step would be to apply to a county court.

If it goes to court, the case could be the first to be brought under the Equality Act which came into force last year.

The law bans anyone providing a 'service to the public' from doing anything that constitutes discrimination.
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So that's £1m the licence payers have to find. I wonder if a Brit were to complain over being stereotyped by the likes of Walliams and Lucas in Little Britain or Come Fly With Me, whether they would get a £1m payout?
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Old February 5th, 2011 #2
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These comments on Top Gear are very entertaining.

I doubt any court would pay any Mexican damages for these comments.

Top Gear is sold and viewed all around the world, and has an enormous budget. If they can spend a million pounds each week sending a car into the air on a rocket or any other of their entertaining stunts, then they could easily pay a fine.

The publicity they are getting from this is worth the risk of any payment.
 
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Come hug the stars of my EU zoo — bickering Belgians
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When someone is designing a zoo, they do not put the cobras in the same cage as the mongeeses. They also know to keep the owls separate from the mice. This is because the people who design zoos are wise. Sadly, however, the people who run the EU are not.

Zoo people know that when they have created a “living farm” in which rosy-cheeked children can pet and stroke the goats and piggy-wiggies, it’s not a good idea to say, “And let’s put a couple of crocodiles in the pond.” Because if they did that, there’d be no more goats or piggy-wiggies. Or children.

Zookeepers know that all the animals are different. But politicians have been conditioned by collective madness to believe that all of the world’s peoples are exactly the same; that we all want democracy, a free press and a Hyundai people carrier. So they see nothing wrong with inviting Romanians and Bulgarians to come and live in their back yards.

Unfortunately, though, the people of the world are not all the same. The French take their medicine anally. We do not. The Dutch think the rudest word in the world is “swaffelen”, which means “to bang your penis on the side of the Taj Mahal”. Whereas Italians think that the rudest thing you can say is, “Dove e Starbucks?”

I’ve been to Romania. It’s lovely. But out in the sticks you encounter settlements even Jesus would call “a bit backward”. If the people who live there come to Britain, it won’t be a move of 1,500 miles. It’ll be a move of 1,500 years.

It’ll be difficult, I suspect, for the new boys to integrate straight away. If they try to pay for their groceries in Asda with a goose and some firewood, people are going to point and giggle, that’s for sure.

And where will it end? The Eurovision song contest allows entries from Azerbaijan and Israel and various other nations that simply vote for their neighbours. It’s an example of how big is not necessarily better.

For some time I’ve been suggesting the perfect EU would be made up of Germany, England, Denmark and Holland. These are four countries with a broadly similar attitude to work and life in general. None of us wants to throw a donkey off a tower block or spend all day sitting in a plastic chair by the side of the road. Instead we all go to work, pay our taxes and have police forces in which bribery is the exception rather than the rule.

Scandinavia could form its own little group of countries for people who like to wear jumpers and give everything they earn to the government. France, Italy and Spain could create a zone where everyone spends nine months of the year on the beach. And all the new boys would be asked to reapply for membership after they’d turned the horse from a means of transport — or supper — into a plaything for little girls.

That leaves Belgium. I was there last weekend and it’s really very lovely. Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent are northern Europe’s prettiest towns. Apart from Driffield, obviously. The food is sensational too. Pick a restaurant at random and there’s a better chance of eating well than there is in Italy. And they have a cafe society that makes Spain look industrious.

And yet despite all this there’s a problem. Today, if a comedian makes a joke about any nation on earth, he will be branded a racist. But if he cracks a gag about Belgians, even the most right-on, left-leaning audience will laugh until their spleens come out of their noses.

Belgium’s most famous son is Hercule Poirot, who’s fictional. Its most famous daughter is Audrey Hepburn, who’s dead. And the only thing they’ve invented in their 183-year history is Bakelite, something Jean-Claude Van Damme appears to be made from these days.

If it’s possible to liken Europe to a zoo, the Belgians are like moths. Pretty, if you can be bothered to stop and take a closer look . . . but you can’t. Because they’re really of any interest only to academics. However, there is one thing that sets them aside, one thing that would cause all right-thinking people to say, “We would like these people in our zoo.”

Some sources claim Cambodia once went for 353 days without a government, though Guinness World Records says that post-Saddam Hussein Iraq went for 289. Whatever, more recently Belgium took the record: a whopping 541 days with no one in charge.

Back in 2010 a general election produced no overall majority. And because the parties were split, not just politically and ideologically but also down nationalistic lines as well, there was no chance in hell of forming a coalition. You had the People’s Front of Wallonia. The Popular Front of Wallonia. The People’s Popular Front of Flanders. The Flanders Popular People’s Front of Wallonia and so on and so on.

It all stems from the fact that Belgium itself is split between those who speak French and those who speak Dutch. It’s Celtic and Rangers, only on a national scale. One man tried to form a government, but when he discovered it wasn’t possible, he was sacked and replaced with someone else, who tried to resign but was prevented from doing so by the king. The stalemate became so entrenched that some French politicians even suggested that Wallonia become the 28th region of France.

And while all these men in suits did all this bickering, the doctors carried on going to work, the streetlights remained lit, the injured were ferried to hospital in ambulances and the economy grew by 2.3%. Belgium, home to the EU, was busy showing the world that, actually, a government isn’t really necessary.

Yes, ministers from the previous administration remained in their jobs, but they had no directives. They had no goal. So there were no new taxes, no new regulations, no new quangos. And it worked.

So in my smaller, more efficient EU, the Danes would design everything and the Germans would make it. The Dutch would do the deals and the English would handle the money. The Belgians, meanwhile, would be in charge, on the basis they’d spend all day squabbling and wouldn’t do much of anything else at all.
 
Old May 29th, 2013 #4
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So in my smaller, more efficient EU, the Danes would design everything and the Germans would make it. The Dutch would do the deals and the English would handle the money. The Belgians, meanwhile, would be in charge, on the basis they’d spend all day squabbling and wouldn’t do much of anything else at all.
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Old May 29th, 2013 #5
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Jeremy Clarkson is a right arrogant cunt. Sure, he's a talented TV presenter - so what?

(EDIT: Although his point about non-European countries being accepted into the EU is true enough.)
 
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Default Notting Hill Carnival like Soviet Russia, says Clarkson: Top Gear presenter says event is now dominated by police

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-police.html Notting Hill Carnival like Soviet Russia, says Clarkson: Top Gear presenter says event is now dominated by police

Top Gear presenter's comments come after more than 300 people were arrested at the festival
The 53-year-old said if the same happened at a football match, there would be consequences
A further 300 people were treated by the emergency services at the event
96 people were held for drug crimes and 64 for public order offences
 
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Watching Top Gear now on Dutch TV
 
Old September 15th, 2013 #8
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Jeremy Clarkson hints he 'could stand as an MP against Ed Miliband in Doncaster'

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Jeremy Clarkson, the outspoken presenter of BBC's Top Gear, has suggested on Twitter that he could run for Parliament - standing in Labour leader Ed Miliband's seat.

The presenter, who is thought to be a friend of the Prime Minister, told his followers on the micro-blogging site that he was thinking of standing as an independent at the next general election.

"I'm thinking I might stand in the next election as an independent for Doncaster North, which is where I'm from. Thoughts?" he wrote.

It is currently unclear how seriously - if at all - Mr Clarkson is considering the idea.

Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party, won the Doncaster North seat in 2005 and at the 2010 election had 10,909 majority in the constituency.

The message has since been shared - or retweeted - more than 2,000 times including by John Prescott, Labour's former Deputy Prime Minister.

Mr Prescott also wrote to the presenter: "Why not stand in Chipping Norton, where you live now? You've got lots of mates there."

Mr Clarkson has a history of controversial political comments.

In February 2009 the presenter apologised for calling the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" after a barrage of criticism from politicians and disability groups.

Last year, Ed Miliband also criticised Clarkson claiming he was one of a number of celebrities making light of people suffering from mental illness.

Clarkson's intervention comes after a difficult summer for Mr Miliband who had to endure a series of stinging criticisms of his leadership from within his own ranks.
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Well Jeremy Clarkson was born in Doncaster so why not
 
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Well Jeremy Clarkson was born in Doncaster so why not
I heard he was living of the Isle of man
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I heard he was living of the Isle of man
I think he owns a lighthouse there but it's like a holiday home thing, not his permanent residence.
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Well Jeremy Clarkson was born in Doncaster so why not
I envy the people of Doncaster. I'm not his greatest fan but I'd vote for him in a flash.
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Clarkson on Belgium

On Mexicans

On Mandelson and education

On the Notting Hill Carnival


On the BBC paedo scandal


On the underwear of Muslim women - yes, really.

On burkas


On education


On Mandelson

On the BBC obsession for "black muslim lesbians"


On homosexual cars


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I think he owns a lighthouse there but it's like a holiday home thing, not his permanent residence.
I don't know about that, but I've read somewhere that JC settled there because of its tax regime, not sure about that though.
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I don't know about that, but I've read somewhere that JC settled there because of its tax regime, not sure about that though.
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Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born April 11, 1960, in Doncaster) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun, but is most associated with the BBC motoring programme Top Gear, which he presents, first doing so from 1989 until 1999, and then again from 2002. The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion," according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views. He was once described by Tony Parsons in the Daily Mirror as a "dazzling hero of political incorrectness".

Jeremy Clarkson lives between Chipping Norton and Chadlington in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.

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Clarkson also owns a £1.2m lighthouse holiday home in an Isle of Man beauty spot, set in about 40 acres of coastland.
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His comment on the sleeping mexican ambassador is an all time best!
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His comment on the sleeping mexican ambassador is an all time best!

That just finished his round of comments off, didn't it?
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Jeremy Clarkson 'makes £14m from Top Gear' after BBC buys out firm set up to capitalise on show's global success

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Jeremy Clarkson made more than £14million from Top Gear last year after a BBC move to take full control of the hit series' production company boosted his presenters salary, it was claimed today.

BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, bought out the controlling stake in Bedder 6, a firm formed in partnership with Clarkson to exploit the show's global commercial potential.

The purchase was a 'deal to secure the talent integral to the brand's future,' according to BBC Worldwide's Annual Review, which was published today.

It comes after Top Gear has enjoyed massive global success, with profits from the worldwide distribution increasing five-fold in the five years since the Bedder 6 venture was set up.

Clarkson received £8.4million for his 30 per cent stake in Bedder 6, the Guardian reported, after BBC Worldwide in September last year exercised an option to take full control of the company.

Prior to the sale, he also received an additional £4.86million dividend payment from the firm related to the profits from the worldwide success of Top Gear.

Added to his presenting fee, thought to be just under £1million, that takes his total earnings from the brand to more than £14million.

Only Clarkson's presenter's salary is paid from the licence fee.



BBC Worldwide formed Bedder 6 partnership with Clarkson and Top Gear producer Andy Wilman in 2008 to channel revenues from the global exploitation of the show through the company.

Wilman received £5.6million for his 20 per cent stake in the venture, the Guardian reported.

A BBC spokesman insisted that no licence fee money was used to buy up Clarkson and Wilman's stakes in Bedder 6.

'No licence fee income was used by BBC Worldwide to pay the exiting shareholders of Bedder 6 in 2012,' he said.


'In just five years the business grew its profits five-fold (and its revenue to £149million), which would not have been possible without the involvement of the show's creative talent.

'The deal also secured the future of the Top Gear brand for the BBC and BBC Worldwide and we now benefit from 100 per cent of its profit stream.'

BBC Worldwide's Annual Review said: 'In September 2012 BBC Worldwide acquired its non-controlling interest in Bedder 6, the entity through which Top Gear operated internationally, as part of a deal to secure the talent integral to the brand’s future.

'As a result of this transaction there was a £14.4million cash outflow and a £1.8million charge within other gains and losses.

'Prior to acquisition, a dividend from pre-deal retained earnings was also paid by Bedder 6 Ltd to its shareholders, resulting in a net cash outflow of £8.1m for the Group.'

BBC Worldwide made a total profit of just over £156million in the 12 months to March, on sales of nearly £1.2billion. It handed back nearly all the profit to the public, licence-fee funded arm.

It has made more than £1billion for the corporation since its creation in 2007.
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Fair play to him I say.
 
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