Jeremy Clarkson, 62, has revealed what he really thinks about Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 58, after the Tory leader addressed him directly about his concerns on Twitter last week.
Although Jeremy acknowledged that he was happy to see Boris making an apparent U-turn on supporting British farmers in his video message, he also shared his fears that the PM’s words were a “long way from any kind of action”.The Grand Tour host cited his own struggles in his latest column.He insisted Boris’ pledge to make sure that the “computer does not say no” when a farmer applies for permission to turn a disused barn into a bistro is irrelevant, as this decision is not actually made by the politician, but by a planning officer.Jeremy divulged: “The planning officer wants to know, for instance, why I’ve installed a septic tank and what it’s for.
And if I answer “recklessly”, saying it’s for the storage of turds, I could be fined £5,000. “But this is the best bit: she says that, because we are providing seating and lavatories, the public is being “actively encouraged to visit and remain on site.“This is what farmers are up against.
Planners who grant you permission to open a shop and then say you must not encourage people to visit it. “And what can one man in a field in Cornwall realistically do to stop that frankly unfathomable attitude?” The star questioned in his column for The Sunday Times.Instead, Jeremy suggested: “This, then, is my personal message back to Johnson: you’ve got to announce that you will not tolerate a**eishness.”It comes after Jeremy issued a plea to the government in view of his 7.7million followers, saying in a video: “Hi, I’m Jeremy Clarkson, and in the next Parliament I would like to see the government prioritising.
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