Last week's Economist asked who would speak for Britain's rednecks...
Over at the Jeremy Clarkson fansite there is a thread dedicated to making the Top Gear presenter the Tory candidate for Sheffield Hallam (Nick Clegg's seat). Jeremy Clarkson AND Zac Goldsmith on the Tory benches would be quite something!
Recent 'wisdom' from Mr Clarkson's Sun column:
- "What interests me about the Greenpeace case is that the legal system now accepts global warming is real, that man is causing it, and that anyone is entitled to smash up anything they like if they feel it will help cool the world down again. I just wish the prosecution had brought the founder of Greenpeace to the stand. He’s called Dr Patrick Moore, and he explained recently that even though the amount of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere is rising, global temperatures have been falling since 1998. When asked if he thought man was definitely causing global warming, he said “the answer is a resounding No”. Sadly, for thinking this, he may have to be killed." (13 September)
- "For too long we’ve sat in our ivory towers buying sofas on the never-never and cars on credit. And imagining that if we don’t bother turning on the airport parking lights all will be well so long as we are wearing our hi-viz jackets. It’s been the same story in government. They’ve squandered the proceeds from the good times on idiotic, unnecessary and extremely expensive schemes to reduce global warming. Gordon Brown even sold off most of our gold reserves when prices were at rock bottom. Sitting in a Jacuzzi of cash, it was almost like he didn’t care. But he will do soon. We all will. Because the world is a see-saw and it is inevitable that we shall sink into the pit of poverty as fast as the Far East rises." (6 September)
- "People I know who understand the dark, mythical world of “the economy” say we can forget about normal recessions. The one galloping over the horizon right now is going to be a tropical, industrial-grade whopper. They say the next few years are going to be hell. Worse than anything in living memory. Genghis Khan bad. Interestingly, however, Comrade Brown has decided that the biggest issue facing the nation right now is not the economy or the number of punctured bodies on every street corner. No. It’s the amount of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere." (19 July)
