Jeremy Clarkson has launched a fresh attack on Sir Keir Starmer, identifying the Prime Minister as the “biggest issue” facing farmers today.
The former Top Gear presenter and farmer also claimed that the Labour leader as “a man who plainly sees the countryside rather differently to me.”
In his characteristically blunt style, Clarkson wrote: “A man who plainly sees the countryside rather differently to me. He looks at a hawthorn bush in full bloom and thinks, ‘I’m going to confiscate that. And build a house on it.'”
The criticism comes as Clarkson continues to document his experiences running a farm in the Cotswolds, where he has repeatedly clashed with planning authorities and government policies affecting rural communities.
Jeremy Clarkson has taken aim at Sir Keir Starmer in his new column
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Clarkson revealed the financial difficulties plaguing his pub venture, explaining how the economics of farm-to-fork dining create an impossible pricing dilemma.
In his latest column for the Sunday Times, he also detailed how charging customers the true cost of his farm produce would make meals prohibitively expensive.
“If I make it pay the right price for my lamb, the number of people who could afford to eat there would be about none,” he wrote in the column.
Clarkson went on to admit he has been forced to undercharge for his own produce to keep the pub viable. “I therefore have to charge the wrong price,” he explained.
Jeremy Clarkson has shared fresh struggles facing both his farm and pub
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His frustrations extend to his brewery operation, where using his own barley at cost would result in astronomical prices for customers.
The broader challenges facing British farming feature prominently in Clarkson’s critique, particularly the disconnect between production costs and market prices.
He expressed bewilderment at agriculture’s unique economic model, where farmers have no control over their selling prices.
“In any other industry you work out how much it costs to make your product, add some profit to make it all worthwhile, and that’s what you charge. But it doesn’t work like that in farming,” he wrote.
He ended his column: “So, while the countryside is as beautiful as ever and farming is still full of happiness, there are many recent issues that have conspired to make it extremely difficult.
“And that’s before we get to the biggest issue of them all: Sir Keir Starmer. A man who plainly sees the countryside rather differently to me.
“He looks at a hawthorn bush in full bloom and thinks, ‘I’m going to confiscate that. And build a house on it.’
It’s not the first time Clarkson has taken aim at the Prime Minister whilst sharing his thoughts in one of his columns.
Jeremy Clarkson labelled Starmer ‘the biggest issue of them all’ facing rural Britain
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Earlier this month, he wrote in a piece for The Sun: “”Can you imagine what would have happened if Neville Chamberlain had announced Britain was in grave danger and, as a result, would increase funding for the Armed Forces and therefore be ready to do ‘war fighting’ by 1975?”
Clarkson highlighted the impracticality of Starmer’s ambitions, noting the Prime Minister’s pledge to build 12 new nuclear submarines and a fleet of advanced fighter-bombers.
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Jeremy Clarkson took a swipe at the Prime Minister as he detailed struggles he had been facing
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He remarked: “According to Starmer, we’d go from a country that can’t even stop a rubber dinghy reaching the shores of Kent to a country that would shake fear into the entire Russian naval machine.”
