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Date: 07 January 2008 12:50:10
Many regular readers of my thoughtless meanderings will know that I'm a great fan of Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson. This is due to my love cars that go FASSSSSTTTTT and the humour with which Top Gear is presented.
There is a campaign under way to make Clarkson the next Prime Minister; there is a petition to that effect on the Downing Street website that people can fill in.
I do not doubt that he could not be any worse than our current government, or the opposition. He has proved this with a remarkable gaff. Amongst other things Clarkson is a columnist with The Sun, a poor excuse for a "news"paper, and The Sunday Times. His columns are definitely written with a certain amount of self-knowing humour and opinion. Yet he has recently surpassed himself in a bit of Borisian hubris (named after the Conservative candidate for London Mayor, and gaff prone toff, Boris Johnson).
In a recent column in The Sun, Clarkson declared that the recent furore over lost government data was something of a non-event in reality. To prove that there was no danger in what happened he published his full bank details and told readers how to discover his hme address. He ws that confident that what he said was correct.
In this Sunday's column in the Sunday Times he told us that his declaration had backfired on him. Someone had used the information provided in his earlier article and arranged for £500 to be debited from his account and credited to Diabetes UK. Fair play tio him, he has not asked for his money back.
So, if nothing else, he has proved that what the government did could have an impact on the people put at risk by this error. Will the government therefore offer to refund monies to any taxpayers so effected?
We all know the answer to that, don't we?