Jeremy Clarkson has spent the final six or so months making an attempt to excellent the newest jewel in his Diddly Squat Farm crown after spending a cool £1 million on The Farmer’s Canine pub 20 minutes or so down the street.
However the former High Gear man had a little bit of a dilemma with the venue in latest weeks after revealing the pub grounds had been taken over by a ‘gang of 150 burly males’.
Taking to his weekly column for The Sunday Instances to doc precisely what occurred on the Oxfordshire pub, explaining {that a} group of Travellers had descended on his web site.
Writing in his weekly opinion piece, Jezza revealed the padlock had been reduce on the automotive park and employees threatened after confronting the group who had made their means on to the pub grounds.
“Within the olden days you’d name the police and they might not less than attempt to type it out, however occasions have modified,” Clarkson wrote.
Shining a light-weight on the problem of trespassing, he mentioned it had grow to be ‘more and more vexing for farmers and landowners’.
“I’m fairly envious of the best way they stay amongst us whereas taking completely no half within the society we’ve created,” the TV-presenter-turned-farmer mentioned.
“The query of who owns one thing is a form of vexing gray space, and if you wish to break right into a pub automotive park after which spend the morning racing your horses and traps up and down the A40, then you definitely go proper forward.”
He added: “That’s broadly talking what I used to be like as a schoolboy. It was the academics’ job to make the principles and my job to utterly ignore them.”
In the end, Clarkson mentioned, it was about treating members of the Travelling neighborhood with respect.
He mentioned: “Principally, deal with them just like the Canadians deal with their neighbours south of the border. Smile sweetly and hope they don’t come over.”
As for what occurred on the pub, Clarkson revealed the police ‘responded as if somebody had simply despatched an disagreeable tweet about Sir Starmer himself’.
“They turned up, quick, in nice numbers, did automobile checks and organised a fleet of lorries to tow away those who had some form of defect. It was a powerful operation,” Clarkson recalled.
As for the harm executed, Jezza mentioned he was handed £150 to repair the padlock and clear up the litter.
And when requested if they might come again the subsequent yr, it was a well mannered ‘no’ from Clarkson after the ‘unforgivable abuse’ one of many younger women working within the pub was given.
“However within the spirit of getting on, I do want them effectively as a result of racing horses on a totally open twin carriageway seems a rattling sight extra enjoyable than chasing an imaginary fox over a hedge,” he mentioned.
