Jeremy Clarkson: 'execute' public sector workers, says BBC Top Gear host

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During his interview, Clarkson was asked what he would do with strikers, he replied: "I would have them all shot".

He continued: "I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.

"I mean how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed, while the rest of us have to work for a living."

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Later he added: "'I do sometimes use the train to come to London but it always stops in Reading. It's always because somebody has jumped in front of it and somebody has burst.

"You just think, why have we stopped because we've hit somebody? What's the point of stopping? It won't make them better."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8927036/Jeremy-Clarkson-execute-public-sector-workers-says-BBC-Top-Gear-host.html

[Adriene H 89]

I Top Gear

[Dan & Jenni 457]

Clarkson for prime minister

[Captain Oates 911]

He is a fat fraud and looks stupid in jeans

He was born in Yorkshire but adopted a nancy South of England accent and lives there

What a sell out to the soft Southerners and a disgrace to the finest County in the world

I can remember when top gear was a proper program that advised on the cars that people bought - not screaming round in Ferraris and acting like a maladjusted schoolboy and the overgrown mis-shapen ponce he is

If he got stuck on a railway crossing in his Ferrari and I was the train driver, I sure wouldn't brake for him and his entrails would not be scraped up by public servants - HIS family would be given 300 empty Kentucky fried chicken baskets and chopsticks to do the job

I thought my first draft might be too hard on him, so I have softened it to the above

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lol@chopsticks

[slim 1,530]

Nice to see free speech is still protected in England.

[Dan & Jenni 457]

He is a fat fraud and looks stupid in jeans

He was born in Yorkshire but adopted a nancy South of England accent and lives there

What a sell out to the soft Southerners and a disgrace to the finest County in the world

I can remember when top gear was a proper program that advised on the cars that people bought - not screaming round in Ferraris and acting like a maladjusted schoolboy and the overgrown mis-shapen ponce he is

If he got stuck on a railway crossing in his Ferrari and I was the train driver, I sure wouldn't brake for him and his entrails would not be scraped up by public servants - HIS family would be given 300 empty Kentucky fried chicken baskets and chopsticks to do the job

I thought my first draft might be too hard on him, so I have softened it to the above

[Captain Oates 911]

UPDATE PER BBC :

Jeremy Clarkson has apologised for his controversial "I'd have them all shot!" comments on BBC1's The One Show about public sector strikers, insisting his remarks were light hearted and taken out of context.

The BBC also issued a statement, rapping the Top Gear presenter for an item that "wasn't perfectly judged", in the hope of drawing a line under an affair that has prompted more than 5,000 complaints in less than 24 hours.

Clarkson's statement said: "I didn't for a moment intend these remarks to be taken seriously – as I believe is clear if they're seen in context. If the BBC and I have caused any offence, I'm quite happy to apologise for it alongside them."

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... more than 5,000 complaints in less than 24 hours.

all 5,000 complainants should be shot.

[The_Dude 1,142]

all 5,000 complainants should be shot.

Silence Obamabot!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

all 5,000 complainants should be shot.

With what? That's a lot of rounds and would require spraying them with bullets in order to ensure you hit every single one of them. I'd like to think there's a firearm out there that is right for the job, but I'm just qualified to even guess.

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With what? That's a lot of rounds and would require spraying them with bullets in order to ensure you hit every single one of them. I'd like to think there's a firearm out there that is right for the job, but I'm just qualified to even guess.

Gas em then. Whatever it takes.

[Captain Oates 911]

Jeremy Clarkson has lifted an injunction banning the publication of details about his private life after the claims were published online.

The Top Gear presenter lifted the gagging order against his former wife on Wednesday, claiming that privacy injunctions are "pointless" and "don't work".

Clarkson took out the injunction last autumn to prevent the media from reporting a claim by his first wife, Alexandra Hall, that the pair had an affair after he married his current wife, Frances.

The injunction banned the media from reporting "sexual or other intimate acts or dealings" between Clarkson and his first wife, as well as details about the presenter's "private thoughts and feelings, his health and other financial affairs".

Clarkson revealed on Wednesday night he had lifted the gagging order.

Edited December 1, 2011 by Ashud Cocoa

[BobnCherry 10]

He is a fat fraud and looks stupid in jeans

He was born in Yorkshire but adopted a nancy South of England accent and lives there

What a sell out to the soft Southerners and a disgrace to the finest County in the world

I can remember when top gear was a proper program that advised on the cars that people bought - not screaming round in Ferraris and acting like a maladjusted schoolboy and the overgrown mis-shapen ponce he is

If he got stuck on a railway crossing in his Ferrari and I was the train driver, I sure wouldn't brake for him and his entrails would not be scraped up by public servants - HIS family would be given 300 empty Kentucky fried chicken baskets and chopsticks to do the job

I thought my first draft might be too hard on him, so I have softened it to the above

Well said!

[Alex & Rachel 78]

I thought my first draft might be too hard on him, so I have softened it to the above