Jeremy Clarkson gives damning verdict on Sir Keir Starmer after election victory
Jeremy Clarkson offered his scathing judgment on Sir Keir Starmer's election win after previously saying he would "rather vote for his dog" than Labour.
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Jeremy Clarkson has laid into Sir Keir Starmer and his party after their victory at the 2024 General Election. The Clarkson’s Farm star, 64, lamented Labour’s win and discussed the party’s historical failures such as the Winter of Discontent, the Iraq War and selling Britain’s gold reserves.
Writing in his new column, the former Top Gear host pondered what would “go wrong” this time, adding with certainty that “something will” because “it always does with this lot”.
He wrote for The Sun: “I have a terrible feeling, though, that with Starmer it’ll be worse than ever.
“I fear that underneath his Playmobil hair, he’s a card-carrying socialist who’s supported by a vegan, Britain-hating BLT+ army with a rainbow flag that features seven colours. Red, red, red, red, red, red and red...
“And he’ll do nothing to try to stop the boats and he will allow such rampant wokery in the workplace that every employer will up sticks and move to somewhere more sensible. Like North Korea. Or Rockall.”
It isn’t the first time The Grand Tour host has lashed out at the new PM. Last month, in the lead-up to the election, Clarkson said he was “struggling to work out” who to vote for but could not “find a single redeeming feature” about the Labour Party.
He said in a previous column: “They want open borders, zero growth and everyone living in a bucket of shame because their great great grandad once bought a hairbrush that had possibly been made by slaves.
“Their manifesto contains just 87 words on farming. Which, when translated into English basically say: ‘We hate you, you meat-eating rural halfwits.’”
He added that he’d “rather vote for my dog than Sir Starmer’s merry bunch of ideological nincompoops”.
Labour won 412 seats and the Tories 121, marking the worst result in Conservative history.
In his first speech in Downing Street, Sir Keir pledged to usher in an era marked by "stability and moderation" as he told voters "My Government will serve you" whether or not they backed his party.
After a low turnout at the polls, he spoke of the need to rebuild trust in the political system.