I found Downing Street's cooment absolutely hysterical:
Number 10 would only say that Clarkson "is entitled to his own interpretation of the economic circumstances".
If making fun of someone's medical issues weren't such a third rail behavior one would be tempted to some kind of quipe about twice as much idiocy output per eyeball or something like that, the Scots being so notoriously thrifty and all.
The whole thing made me go look up Brown's bio on Wikipedia.
Sports injuries are one leading cause of detached retinas
But the better bit is this one in connection with the 60th anniversary of teh Scottish NHS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7476287.stm
Be sure to play the video link.
DC
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Peter Ward <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> While I find Clarkson one of Britain's most loathsome TV personalities (I
> used to live there) and therefore don't feel any personal sympathy for him I
> can't get worked up about want amounts to an attack on free speech. In fact,
> it is sticking how liberal-minded souls are often the ones leading the
> offensive, a fact none other than archreactionary St George (Orwell) points
> out in a number of places.
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