I see Clarkson & Co have hit the headlines again - twice this week. In the Top Gear magazine Clarkson likened Kent inhabitants as "the sort of people who arrived in England in the back of a refrigerated truck or clinging to the underside of a Eurostar train" and the Isle of Sheppey (admittedly not the prettiest place in the county) as "Mostly a caravan site. There are thousands of thousands of mobile homes, all of which I suspect belong to former London cabbies, the only people on Earth with the knowledge to get there before it's time to turn round and come home again. Now they've managed to upset India with the Top Gear special with their "toilet humour". This on top of the Mexican debacle and Clarkson's comments on The One Show. I know it's just Clarkson being Clarkson but Isn't it about time the BBC called time-out and put him and his cohorts back in the box before they do some real damage and mark it "Do not open again - EVER"?
Well said, watching adults (doubtful) shredding the tyres of class vehicles week in week out lost it's fascination for me about 3 years ago.
Casting an eye over the recent Christmas marketplace the cynical could think that the non commercial Auntie Beeb is being used as a vehicle to market these overgrown boys other products
The more controversy they generate the better the sales harking back to the old addage that there is no such thing as bad publicity, to me they pesonify this saying.
It would take a major overhaul for me to want to watch it again.
Enjoy your miles and Regards from (old -art in) deepest South Devon
