Jeremy Clarkson has issued a savage broadside against Brexit in an admission he struggles to get on with Leave voters.
The 64-year-old’s comments come amid his crusade against the Labour Government’s taxation row with British farmers.
Writing in this column for The Times, Clarkson revealed he has a great relationship with all types of people he previously had strong disagreements with.
This extends to his “Blairite leftie” business partner and even a “proper Marxist” producer on his show Clarkson’s Farm.
However, the 64-year-old presenter explained he drew the line at unrepentant Brexit supporters.
“It’s not so bad if they put their hands up and admit they made a mistake,” he wrote.
Clarkson raged at Brexit in his new column
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Yet when leave voters maintain their belief in the benefits of leaving the EU, Clarkson admitted he gets “so cross my hair catches fire and my teeth start to itch.”
“Brexit hasn’t made our lives better in any way that I can see,” he declared.
One of the sources of Clarkson’s ire was the increased difficulties in travelling around the continent, where he finds himself stuck behind “three million Nigerians and a planeload of confused people from Japan”.
He also bemoaned the ease granted to his partner Lisa, an Irish citizen, who is often already relaxing a hotel while he is stuck in the non-EU passport queue.
Clarkson recalled the memory of travelling to the continent post-Brexit
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Clarkson’s miseries were further heightened by his job, often having to travel with extensive film crews across the continent.
The former Grand Tour star admitted he “wanted to sit down in the gutter and weep” while dealing with the myriad of forms and checks.
He explained that everything the film crew uses, from pens and cameras to their Range Rovers, needed to be fully accounted for with serial numbers in labyrinthine EU forms.
Clarkson also recalled having to wait for hours at both ends during his trip to Calais despite seemingly no security checks being done by staff.
The presenter fumed that, when travelling for Top Gear and The Grand Tour, his journey’s from Iraq to Turkey and Rwanda into Tanzania were easier than leaving post-Brexit Britain.
On the way back, the 64-year-old suggested the crew travel back over the Channel by dinghy.
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“At least we’d get a biscuit when we arrived, and maybe even a free house,” he snapped.
Quoting Lord Sugar, Clarkson slams Brexit as “biggest mistake in his lifetime” as “every company wishing to do business in or with the EU has broadly similar problems. “
Countering an argument used by Brexiteers that the EU remains ruled by an unelected cabal of bankers and officials.
Clarkson remains unconvinced, quipping that he would “prefer the bankers to Starmer and Reeves. I’d prefer anything. The fourth form of my local school. My dogs. Trump, even.”