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Jeremy Clarkson

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merlotgran Wed 11-Mar-15 13:35:59

Quite rightly he's being suspended but should the BBC be cancelling episodes of Top Gear?

If a man working in a factory punches a colleague he would probably be sacked but I doubt they'd remove the product he was making from the shelves.

marigold1 Wed 11-Mar-15 19:27:27

What is IFSWIM ???????

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 11-Mar-15 19:28:03

shock

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 11-Mar-15 19:29:26

Marigold I got it wrong! grin It should have been IYSWIM. ie If you see what I mean. (it's not an easy one to get right grin)

marigold1 Wed 11-Mar-15 19:34:02

Thanks JINGL, all is clear now!!

granjura Wed 11-Mar-15 19:36:48

GrannyTwice, do you have a link to that (news) please?

GrannyTwice Wed 11-Mar-15 19:37:44

It was just broadcast live on C4 news - will have a look

loopylou Wed 11-Mar-15 19:44:59

Thanks jingl

JC clearly even more obnoxious and objectionable that I first imagined. Hideous behaviour.

Anne58 Wed 11-Mar-15 19:45:54

Jeremy Clarkson is a complete -arse-- that we could easily do without.

I'm shock re. the amount of signatures that have been posted in support of this apology for a human being, I will never forget how he said that the film of a cow with BSE was the funniest thing he had seen!

Bring on the anti campaign !!!!!

KatyK Wed 11-Mar-15 19:52:47

Well said phoenix

granjura Wed 11-Mar-15 19:52:50

half a million signatures- beggars belief. It does not bode well for politics in the UK and the elections does it!!!

merlotgran Wed 11-Mar-15 20:05:45

Well, I suppose he could stand for UKIP.

campodol Wed 11-Mar-15 20:17:34

see they have a petition to keep him ,where is the one to get rid of him i would sign it

granjura Wed 11-Mar-15 20:23:38

Oh go one- who is going to start it- itching to sign. UKIP indeed.

KatyK Wed 11-Mar-15 20:33:57

I believe that someone tried to start one on the Gov. Epetitions thing but it was rejected for some reason.

pompa Wed 11-Mar-15 20:35:00

Here is the petition you requested

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/get-rid-of-buffoon-clarkson/thank-you

pompa Wed 11-Mar-15 20:36:12

And another

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jeremy-clarkson-should-be-sacked-by-the-bbc/donate?sig_id=32505332

Ana Wed 11-Mar-15 20:49:39

Are these current petitions pompa? I saw quite a few old ones (last year) when I googled. We don't want to squander our votes! grin

pompa Wed 11-Mar-15 21:01:06

I believe so, I have just signed them.

absentgrandma Wed 11-Mar-15 21:03:04

Not just Clarkson's crass remak about BSE Phoenix, he outdid himself when he complained that suicides on Network Rail really peed him off because they held his train up. The man is a complete bore.

Top Gear has moved from being a mildly interesting programme for petrolheads to a ludicrous display of 'Who can smash a car up more completely... Hammond, May or the Idiot Clarkson?' I don't know what blows a bigger hole in the ozone.... the emissions from their cars as they roar all over the planet in childish races, or the load of tosh that Clarkson emits from his gobangry

KatyK Wed 11-Mar-15 21:14:17

He also said after Michael Schumaker's accident that the trouble with head injuries is that when you recover you can come back as a midget with a marked Brummie accent. He thinks he's very funny. He's wrong.

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 11-Mar-15 21:25:04

I think that was quite funny. He was referring to Hammond.

merlotgran Wed 11-Mar-15 22:11:32

What the heck is David Cameron doing showing support for Clarkson on TV?

merlotgran Wed 11-Mar-15 22:12:02

Surely a PM should stay out of something like this?

KatyK Wed 11-Mar-15 22:13:56

They are friends apparently.

durhamjen Wed 11-Mar-15 22:26:49

This is a current one on change.org, which is where the one to reinstate him was begun.

https://www.change.org/p/bbc-sack-jeremy-clarkson-we-the-undersigned-request-the-bbc-sack-jeremy-clarkson?recruiter=249307096

The others seem to be older ones, years ago.