Jeremy Clarkson

I hope they keep JC. I would miss him terribly but if he has to be replaced I'd like it to be Guy Martin although he'd end up racing the Stig.

Oh No! I can't stand Guy Martin. I don't know why but he gives me the creeps

He has a look of a werewolf lol.

That must be it, vq

I wonder why JC really hit the producer. How the conversation really went leading up to the punch. Was it really just about dinner, or did one thing lead to another?

Having seen the news it looks like a million people think JC IS funny! You lot don't have to like him or actually watch him! James May and Richard Hammond have refused to continue Top Gear without him. That says something....

We don't even know whether JC really did throw a punch yet, jngl!

Hmmm. I think we know there was kind of a 'hit'. Whether it was a full-on punch is another thing.

Perhaps his lip got split on the cold cuts.

Jane10- they are all looking for new contracts elsewhere- so no wonder. It does look more and more as the whole thing was pre-meditated by the 3 of them as their contracts with the Beeb are up.

You've got to give them points for this

granjura I hardly think they're that desperate!

Yes.

Gawd knows how those people will vote int he actual elections- does not bode well methinks ...

I really fail to see a connection between Top Gear and the General Election

Just because those people have signed a petition not to sack JC it doesn't mean they'll all vote UKIP

Topical article by Kenan Malik, good as usual by him.

Are you on the wrong thread granjura?

nope

Mr. Clarkson has, variously: crashed a pickup into a tree to test the truck’s strength, damaging both; been accused of despoiling Botswana’s pristine Makgadikgadi salt pans by driving across them; been chased out of Argentina by an angry crowd after touring in a car with the registration plate H982 FKL, supposedly a provocative reference to the 1982 Falklands War; driven around an Indian slum in a Jaguar fitted with a toilet “because everyone who comes here gets the trots” (a British colloquialism for diarrhea); caused outrage by giving the Nazi salute in a segment about German cars; and sung the nursery rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,” appearing to include the line “Catch a nigger by the toe”

From the article linked above.

To me, thinking that those who micht find the above funny- may also have views that do not find the above abhorrent and totally insensitive- and therefore politics to match. Perhaps it is just me.

Definitely not just me
I agree with everything you've said - and yes, just as the contract is ending ....

The incident in Argentina was orchestrated by an anti-British group. The Top Gear team and film crew had traveled all over the country with no problems. It was only in this one small area that they were attacked by people who were mainly outsiders who had deliberately come to attack the British group. They didn't know who they were attacking just that it was a British film crew. As for the registration plate...Clarkson didn't choose it. I didn't see the reference until it was pointed out but then I fail to see most of the allegedly insulting things the programme does. When they go OTT it sometimes makes me cringe but then who is offended? Were the locals in India offended or did they just see yet another eccentric Englishman? Did anyone ask them? Was offence taken on their behalf by the exceedingly politically correct? If the locals were offended then an apology is in order. If not then no apology is necessary.

I used to work with a lady who's husband was so black his skin had a purple sheen. I once asked her how he preferred to be described. Was he black, coloured, African...? She said he didn't care how he was described as long as the word 'bastard' wasn't included and that the only people she knew who bothered about what words to use were white.

In the General Election I won't be voting UKIP, EDL, any other right wing xenophobic party, Conservative or LibDem.

The three can set up their own company, produce their own programme, choose a channel who pays the most to air. Sell products, make spin offs etc
Quite fortunate this has happened as their contracts are ending . And massive free publicity which even Cammeron has added to,

Bet the three are leaping with glee

JC hasn 't been suspended because he is politically incorrect.

It is because he allegedly verbally and physically abused a subordinate.

But they could have all three have ditched the BBC without all this unpleasantness. I doubt very that JC is enjoying this.

very much