Clarkson said striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their families. I don’t think he actually wanted this to happen, but it could be added to the long list of stupid comments made by the Top Gear presenter. He was forced to apologise and would have gone home to count all the publicity points he scored from his outburst. It is what Clarkson does. You only have to read his books or watch him on TV to know he is ‘shock jockey’. If you want a carefully considered, well thought out arguments then Jeremy is not the man who’s views you seek. Of course he has the right to his opinion and is free to speak it, but could have found a less offensive way.
Croydon women was little different, she has a view, not very well thought out or carefully considered and chose to tell a bus full of innocent people what her view was. Of course we don’t know her so well, maybe this is what she does and is well known in her street for behaving this way. In the long term she’ll probably get an agent who will negotiate a place for her on ‘strictly celebrity big brother get me out of desperate Croydon housewives’, with a ‘the only way is Croydon’ spin off on one of those satellite channels desperate to get noticed. She may, of course, apologise. But her fate in the shorter term is likely to be far harsher than Mr Clarkson’s.
Perhaps the big difference between the two is Clarkson knew why people were striking, they had all chosen of there own free will to strike. Croydon women didn’t know whether everyone on that tram was non British or whether they chose of their own free will to live in this country. I am sure some were bought here by their parents, some were born here, some may have sought asylum and many would have been British. She does have the right to her opinion and the freedom to express it, but could have found a less offensive way.
I was personally more shocked by Croydon women, but if she was worse, it probably wasn’t by much.
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