Former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter lays into ‘useless’ Labour ahead of new series of farming show
Jeremy Clarkson at a protest supporting farmers (Image: Getty)
Jeremy Clarkson has warned there’s “not a farmer alive” who votes for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, following the Government’s betrayal of the countryside. And the TV star said farmers are now backing Reform instead.
Clarkson, the former Top Gear host, has run Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire since 2019. A new series of his reality show, Clarkson’s Farm, is set to begin on Amazon Prime Video. He said co-star Kaleb Cooper had told him about growing support for Nigel Farage’s party.
Clarkson told Times Radio: “Well, there’s one party in particular that seems to be doing very well with the young farmers, that I do know, I mean Kaleb tells me all of his friends, all of them are Reform.” In a 10-word swipe, he added: “I don’t think there’s a farmer alive who’s Labour anymore.
“Beyond that, I couldn’t really say what anybody else is thinking. I mean, this Government is truly useless, we do know that, and is doing nothing for farming, in fact being actually damaging to farming.”
Presenter Kate McCann asked him: “What about the Greens then? Because in theory, if we’re talking about the impact of the weather, potentially climate change, sustainability, homegrown food, that kind of thing, would the Greens be a more natural home, do you think?”
Clarkson said: “Well, apart from their ‘property is theft’ agenda, which would make farming quite tricky. Obviously, there’s a lot of tenant farmers out there, but no, I don’t think the Greens are particularly business-friendly, and farming is a business when all is said and done.”
Labour was accused of forcing farming families to sell their businesses after imposing new inheritance taxes, but has since carried out a partial U-turn.
Asked about a farmer who sprayed muck on cars that had parked in his field despite a prominent “don’t park here” sign, Clarkson said: “I thought it was amusing. I’m always amused by things like that, but I don’t know what the circumstances were behind all of that.
“But if people come and mess about and you really need to get cracking with your work, go and empty some slurry over their cars, it won’t do any lasting damage. So it’s funny.”
McCann asked him: “Do you think the behaviour of people though in the countryside is getting worse?”
Clarkson said: “It’s litter, it’s litter. I cannot abide litter, and I cannot understand the mentality of someone who thinks right I’ve got this wrapper, I shall throw it out of my car window into that hedge. Honestly, it drives me…
“I do not believe in the death penalty, but for people who drop litter, I don’t think there even needs to be a trial. Shoot them in the head. It really, really annoys me, and there’s so many people who do it.”
