CONSERVATIVE HOME Blog 16.9.08
Jeremy Clarkson for Sheffield Hallam!
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)
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