Jeremy Clarkson has said he’s less worried about war with Russia and Chinese spies than he is about who the next Prime Minister will be.
In an article for The Times, Clarkson has dismissed potential political threats from Russia, China or tech billionaires and said he is more worried about who may replace Sir Keir Starmer.
He mused, “I’m far more worried about who will replace Starmer after his backbenchers feed him to the great whites.
The Top Gear star made headlines at the start of the month for banning Labour MPs from his pub, The Farmer’s Dog, after a long track record of expressing his distaste for the Labour government.
He announced that the Prime Minister is banned from the establishment and has since stretched the ban to include over 400 Labour MPs.
This comes in protest of what he refers to as the party’s “Budget tax-grab.”
Clarkson explained: “The word is that Rayner and Miliband will form a dreadful double act, and imagine how much havoc they could unleash before the next election.”
He claimed that Angela Rayner would likely face her professional demise under the markets, the same fate that befell Liz Truss.
This comes after insiders suggested that Starmer and Rachel Reeves are demonstrating a “panicked bunker mentality” and might be out of Downing Street in months.
Clarkson agreed that the market should expect a bigger crash than anything the country has seen before – a claim pushed by some insiders.
However, he caveats it by adding that just like previous fiscal crises, the “tidal wave of awfulness” will come to pass as they did in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2008.
Clarkson has been a long-time critic of the Labour leader. Ahead of the 2024 election, he joked that he’d rather vote for his dog than Sir Keir.
He concluded the article by reassuring readers that “everything will be fine” and encouraged them to take time to listen to the bird, the wind, and take a break from technology.
Signing off, he told readers to have a happy Christmas and not to fret about the new year – that everything would be fine, as “it always is”.
