Jeremy Clarkson calls for 'tough new boss' for NHS as he claims it needs to 'start again'

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Jeremy Clarkson has weighed in on the NHS debate, claiming that the current model of the public health provider "doesn't work anymore" and that as a country "we can't afford it".The Clarkson's Farm star, 61, admitted that he's kept his views to himself as he feels that speaking badly about the NHS is equivalent to blasphemy.Detailing his frustrations with the National Health Service, the Clarkson's Farm star claimed that the current model of the organisation came with a number of managers who liked to "show off", included over 2,000 surgeries which "cost a fortune" and employed over 1.7 million members of staff, which made it bigger than the "Indian Army."Jeremy wrote: "For some time I’ve thought that the NHS doesn’t really work any more, but of course I could never say that out loud because the NHS is a deity."However, the car fanatic explained that he feels compelled to speak out now after he claims the NHS was struggling during the peak of the Covid pandemic.Jeremy has now said that he's now starting to hear more widespread criticism of the UK's public health provider more frequently.Writing in his column for The Sun, the farming star claimed that as a country, "we simply can't afford" the NHS.He went on to claim that operations such as cochlear implants set the health service back nearly £40,000, before going on to remark that the managers like "showing off" to their team.Branding the cost of operations funded by the service "staggering", Jeremy claimed: "For every £1 you pay in taxes, 40p is spent on the NHS.That leaves only 60p for the military, social services, the police, street lighting and every other d**n thing."The star added that "the time has come" for the NHS to "start again", and went on to propose that a.