Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at “underdogs” who challenge the establishment after protestors targeted his Hawkstone lager brewery.
Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at 'underdogs' who challenge the establishment after protestors targeted his Hawkstone lager brewery
The 64-year-old former ‘Top Gear’ host saw campaigners descend onto his Gloucestershire brewery after he let The Heythrop Hunt - a group who have been accused of using dogs to capture and kill wild animals - onto his estate. Now, Jeremy has bashed those who are determined to undermine the status quo.
In his column for The Sunday Times, he wrote: “If you are rich and powerful, you are wrong. And if you are a lollipop lady, you are right. Politicians are all wrong. International businessmen too. But hard-working families in the community are all right.
“This is how we now sort out neighbourly hedge disputes. The one with the c*** car on the drive wins. The one with the Audi loses.
“I hear the same sort of thing is happening in the workplace. You have the boss. Well educated, well travelled and well read. He started the company and, through hard work and long hours, he made it successful. So in every meeting he knows what he wants to do and when and where. But current thinking dictates that first of all he must waste half an hour listening to some drooling teenage halfwit with blue hair and a bone in its nose, and then actively praise him/them for its insight.”
The ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ star then reflected on the protesters, and how they will likely receive public-backing for their actions.
He said: “All of this brings me on to half a dozen angry young ladies who decided to stage a protest at my farm last week. God knows what they were complaining about. Their beavers, I think. Or was it badgers? Whatever, they used their extensive knowledge of the countryside and how it works to arrive at my … brewery. Where they stood in the rain for a little while, shouting and waving placards, before realising that the manufacture of lager doesn’t affect the beaver one way or the other, really. Or the badger.
“This tiny group of young ladies will receive a huge tidal wave of public support because they are the underdog, and I will have my trousers taken down because I’m Farmer Palmer.”
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