Jeremy Clarkson's comments on BBC's "The One Show" last night that he would take the day's public servants pension strikers outside and shoot them in front of their families drew 4,700 protests to the broadcaster and has sent the unions, ever up for expressing "anger" or other indignation, scurrying for legal advice.
Some free advice in a moment. Everyone, including the BBC, knows Clarkson and could have pretty well predicted what he would say. That is his signature and, like it or not, it is entertaining to many or maybe even most. To get worked up about it requires taking oneself dangerously seriously and veering towards an attraction to unsmiling, slab faced police states. The fact that young Ed has "felt their pain" and expressed disgust or something like that says all you need to know about what a fun place would exist under his unsmiling, grimacing premiership. Even Dave has felt obliged to say the remark was "silly". In the p.c world Britain inhabits it probably was,but it hardly merits a Prime Minister and Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition to even comment other than maybe to remark "Clarkson is Clarkson". Both would though have been better advised to say nowt.
The advice then: Get a grip folks. It was a J-O-K-E.
