Clarkson: Ever wondered why Clarkson is such trouble? Well, meet his mum...

[TurnerGTX]

Even if you didn't know whose mum she was, you could hazard a shrewd guess.

Shirley Clarkson has robust views on political correctness, global warming and the niggling constraints imposed by officialdom.

Here's a typical bugbear: 'I'm not worried about the planet, no. It will be all right. Something will turn up. I went through a war and, at the end, we thought we wouldn't recover, but you do, don't you?

'People say: "What about your grandchildren?" Well, they'll sort themselves out. One of my grandsons said: "We'll just invent another planet."'

In a world clouded by portents of doom, Shirley is a bracing gust of fresh air.

She doesn't hold with angst, pessimism, introspection and self-doubt.

'I don't worry about a thing. I never suffer from stress,' she says breezily.

She is, of course, the mum of Jeremy 'Top Gear' Clarkson - he of the impeccable anti-Green credentials - but now she is stepping out of the shadows, not to own up to his parentage, but to tell her own story.

.......Jeremy's endorsement on the cover reads: 'A heart-warming, inspirational tale of a woman trying to run a business while having me as a son.'

And, poor dear, it can't have been easy for her. Jeremy fomented trouble at his public school, Repton, in Derbyshire, causing minor explosions in the science block as a prelude to getting expelled.

'It's not true, as he once said, that I threw pans at him when he was told to leave,' says Shirley, 73.

'But we had spent a lot of money on his education and we thought: "What the hell are we paying for?"'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1026641/Ever-wondered-Jeremy-Clarkson-trouble-Well-meet-mum-.html

 

[fbc]

I expect nothing less from a Clarkson - we need more of them.

 

[Red_Bull]

The Times published an extract of her book focussing on the Paddington Bears which was a very compelling read. I almost feel inclined to go and pick up a copy of her book for further reading because she sounds like she has a few things to say.

 

[Tranquillizer]

not surprised

 

[Lilleput]

The thing is, she's right, stuff always sorts it self out, look scientists just started breeding beetles that poo raw oil and the arab's will start pumping from a new oil platform next month.. Even if we fuck up this planet, in 500 years we will be able to just say fuck it and move.