Say whaaaat? He must have really done it this time! 

Hi Velvet... you're dang right   His suspension is probably for show. Just means improved ratings when TG comes back.

Uh-huh   

I think they are sending the wrong message to him in cancelling the show ..suspend him yes but put the show out and show him he's not indispensable and the show can easily go on without the twat

Good, he's gotten away with far too much for far too long. 

But he is indispensable to the show.

 

Without him TG dies, simple as that.

The BBC never liked TG anyway, it's non PC and too blokey for them.

 

The Beeb want to feminise the network...AKA ruin it.

He, allegedly punched one of the producers. 

 

I agree with Olly, keep it going without him. 

Really? I love Top Gear. 

But lets not forget, those who run the BBC aren't very intelligent or in touch with public opinion.

nah,

its their biggest money maker

its sold all around the world

so long head must've p!ssed someone off

 

That's what I love about Clarkson, he winds people up...we need presenters like him, if we lose the likes of him off our TV screens we'll be left with the Ben Sheppard's of this world.

yep

i agree

i dont want

soppy wanky divs

but clarkson is too much

i'll settle for an inbetween type

clarkson thinks he's above it cos he snuggles up to cam & brookes

 

Doesn't Clarkson 'own' the rights to Top Gear?

 

IF he does he can take it away from them

Yeah,but there's a 'line'

 

The other 2 aren't up to scratch as lead presenters, imo.

Captain Slow is....well, he's Captain Slow and I suppose appeals because of that.  The other one, Mini Me, is an annoying, self amused wannabee Clarkson. He even presents in a Clarksonesque way.

I've been following the debate in the other place and it seems that a lot of posters are attempting to pigeonhole individuals within left and right wing ideological positions.
I've read his books and enjoy his columns in the ST. He's a very entertaining bloke.
However, I'm not a big fan of car wankers (to continue with the above nomenclature) People who obsess and fetish cars are a bit daft in my opinion. But we can avoid the prog!

I hardly ever watch the show, but I've a mate who's a big fan and who's been to a filming of it, and my understanding is that it's largely pre-recorded. they can't just stick Sunday's show out with him removed...

I'm with you on this Garage Joe.  Given my lefty views, it's almost expected of me that I should despise Clarkson, but I find him witty, knowledgeable, informed and of course, laddish and childish but I don't mind that. 

 

I don't even think Clarkson is particularly right wing nor sexist either.  I think he enjoys playing up to that persona though.

Clarkson = complete w*nker and a waste of space....enough said 

Oh I don;t like everything about the man.

After all he's mates with Rebekah Brookes.

 

 . . . and he does need to know when to pull his head in.

 

Having said this he's made Top Gear what it is and I can see the stuffy BBC losing him and the show just like they lost Jonathon Ross

By-the-way I thought his recent expedition to Argentina was a terrible show.

Dull and tiresome .... and quite frankly I was glad when they got run out of town by the locals

 

Pleased I'm not the only one who thinks he's a dick head 

 

 

I'm not sure about the BBC "losing" Jonathon Ross like.
A happy release surely! Utter carp!

I have no idea what Clarkson's politics are but I had always assumed he was a lefty/labour person. . no idea why tho, just had him down as a shouty union type. . my personal generalisation I presume.. 

 

I don't even watch Top Gear but have seen the bloke on other shows and don't get the 'love' for him. . obnoxious overgrown mean man-kid who is allowed to get away with anything.. he may be intelligent but the negative sides of his persona counteract anything intelligent he may say as it makes me not want to listen..

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"It has also emerged that the three presenters could walk away from Top Gear before the BBC's investigation into Clarkson's behaviour is concluded, as their contracts expire at the end of this month and they have not yet signed new three-year deals that were expected to be completed within days.

Although the BBC owns the rights to Top Gear, Sky has made repeated attempts to lure Clarkson and his co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond to the channel to make a new motoring show, and there is speculation Clarkson may now decide the time is right to move on."

I find that notion very surprising, given his comment about wanting to execute striking public sector workers in front of their families...

I never saw that... or if I did I'd forgotten about it  but, as I said my feelings/perception of him came from a generalisation I made that was clearly wrong.. he just comes across as a bully boy and my perception of Union Officials is the same hence the link in my head to labour/leftie etc.. and hence my blush emoticon in my original post to show my embarrassment that I made a generalisation probably based on my personal feelings rather than facts ..   

He's a public school boy

I don't like the idiot, i don't watch his boring motor show. However he annoys me any time he turns up on my fav Q. I. Show. He writes for the sun so i assume murdoch and his sky cronies want to poach him from the bbc, good riddance

So.... we think he's going to Sky anyway and he's been waiting to give someone a smack in the gob?  

 

I tend not to watch him on telly, but his writing makes me laugh.   I don't quite understand why his suspension has been the top 'news' story for 24 hours though.  

 

 

Agrees 

There's so much more to him than the awful motor show. Apparently he writes for the Sun, but he does write excellent stuff in the ST and even his car reviews are worth reading just for the extra stuff! I also liked his occasional appearances on HIGNFY. Not so much on the self congratulatory QI.
As far as his language and opinions go, a few weeks back we uphold the rights of Charlie Hebdo to indulge in offensive satire as free speech.
If we protect our excellent socialist cartoonists then surely we should not deny Clarkson his rights too.
Meanwhile...........What means "shouty Union officials?"
I never lost my cool or shouted at anybody!

Fair point 

Je ne suis pas Charlie Ebdo

 

Je suis Clarkson

It's just how a lot of them come over to me when talking on the box in interviews. . full of abrasiveness. . not my cup of tea at all. . they grate on me a lot...  jmo tho. .

I quite like JC's lack of pc'ness, I also think he's  a smug.

 

I don't why all these people have signed a petition to get him back, no on knows what he did yet.If he did deck some one, then he'd be sacked from any job he had.

Not if he had me representing him but.

yeah

that word sums him up

like he's bigger than the programme

i remember watching him fling a pen at ian hislop on HIGNFY, it cut his face (a bit) but i thought what an arsehole/idiot/smug git