Jeremy Clarkson has revealed whether he would move abroad to escape Britain’s “doomed” state.
The former Top Gear presenter, 65, complained about the UK’s “broken future full of nothing about taxation, crime, and disease” in his latest Sunday Times column.
Clarkson cited the “flatlining” economy, “stagnant” housing market, and “useless” police as all good reasons to leave the country.
The former Grand Tour host has encountered a host of problems in 2025, claiming it has been the “worst year ever” for his Cotswolds farm due to the relentless heatwaves and drought.
More recently, he revealed the farm has been locked down for at least two months due to a bovine tuberculosis outbreak among his herd of cattle.
Amid the turmoil, Clarkson weighed up whether he would seek refuge somewhere like Dubai, Europe, or Australia.
“It’s easy to convince yourself that Britain is now an unsalvageable basket case, a country that’s slipped into a pair of Fairy Liquid butter trousers and is currently hurtling down the slide of doom into a broken future full of nothing but taxation, crime and disease,” he wrote in his column.
Clarkson said Australia, New Zealand and America were “obvious choices” as places he could move to - but claimed the “forms and requirements” to make that happen are “tiresome”.
He also dismissed other countries like Italy, France, Spain, Croatia, Portugal, and Switzerland, before landing on Dubai as a viable option.
“No income tax. Petrol 50p a litre. The police do what they’re supposed to do and it’s sunny most of the time. What’s not to like? “ Clarkson wrote.
“I used to enjoy Dubai back in the early Nineties when there were no people in it and only one hotel. But today, it feels like the bastard love child of Las Vegas and Mickey Mouse.”
The presenter said that ultimately, it’s better to stick out the current “awful” climate in the UK rather than upping sticks.
“If you move abroad, in three-and-a-half years you will be living in another country, and God knows what it will be like there then. Whereas if you stay here, in three-and-a-half years you’ll be surrounded by your friends and family. And the horror of [Keir] Starmer will have gone,” he reasoned.
Clarkson has battled a slew of challenges at his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, this summer.
In July, the motoring journalist announced that the farm had “gone down” with the infectious disease, bovine tb, from a pregnant cow.
“It's awful, it is awful. You have a test every six months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it's a hypothetical threat,” he told Times Radio.
“And then the vet looks up as he did yesterday lunchtime and said, ‘I'm really sorry this one's failed’. So that means we're now locked down and it's just dreadful, absolutely dreadful.”
Clarkson confirmed his adjoining farm shop has been “unaffected” by the closure and remains open for business as usual.
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