Seven million people watched the show out of which up to 500 complained about an off the cuff remark made by Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson in which he joked about lorry drivers killing sex workers.
According to Chris Mole MP, the fact that Mr Clarkson made light of murder in any circumstance must be a dismissible offence and, even more amazingly, Mr Mole claimed in a subsequent radio interview that "he knew what his constituents thought" with reference to friends and relatives of five women murdered in Suffolk and that they had been offended by Clarkson's comments. This despite the fact that none of them had complained to the MP nor had he heard anything either positive or negative about the tv show from them.
Whilst I don't condone Clarkson's remarks, the arrogance displayed by Mr Mole throughout the radio interview was beyond belief.
Oh and for the record, apparently Chris Mole MP voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban, voted strongly for introducing ID cards, voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals, voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees, voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws, voted strongly for the Iraq war, voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war, voted very strongly for replacing Trident, voted very strongly for the hunting ban, voted very strongly for equal gay rights and not insignificantly claimed £143,003 worth of expenses in 2006/7.
Has anyone (outside of Suffolk) ever heard of him before now? Self-serving? Judge for yourselves.
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