Usually, I take great pains to avoid even an accidental glimpse of the Three Arsemen of the Car-pocalypse. The last time I absent-mindedly flicked through Dave, Dave+1, UK Gold, Watch and Dave’s Gold Watch +1, I got so lost in Top Gearrepeats – in such a horrific haze of fake spontaneity and bigotry-lite – that I had to immediately burn down my own house just to cleanse the hate.
Presently Clarkson gets away with projecting his vile outlook on the nation’s media because he is most famous for, alongside a pair of under-twits, presenting a television show which tests out and reviews mechanical commodities. Not a range of commodities either, just cars. Now because this is an inherently dull concept, every show contains some form of mocked up ‘hilarious’ scenario which enables Clarkson to come across as a harmless, bumbling everyman (a sort of proto-Boris), effectively disguising his true, creepy, elitist nature.
A move into politics for Clarkson would see him take his rightful and deserved place in the ranks of the reviled – alongside Farage, Thatcher, Griffin, Moseley. If this is how he chooses to cement his place in history, who are we to stop him? I, for one, would fully support his campaign for Doncaster (election HQ: Chipping Norton, naturally). So Vote Clarkson! Because, like Boris Johnson and like Nigel Farage, in the glare of political life, the pseudo-buffoon act can only last so long, before you are exposed as the ‘nasty piece of work‘ you really are. With Clarkson, I suspect this wouldn’t take long. We are already a good part of the way there.
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