The debate rumbles Clarkson and on and on....

Given that this blog has pretty much fallen into disuse I've offered it to my friend and aspiring journalist Kayleigh Fail to have a go at writing a topical opinion piece. She's asked me to introduce her as the columnist who's not afraid to say what we're all thinking and she's got some hot opinions on some recent news stories.

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Jeremy Clarkson has been causing a storm in the press again for all the wrong reasons and I for one would be happy to see the car mad Top Gear presenter driven from our screens! It's scandalous that the BBC would broadcast the presenter saying that public sector strikers should be shot and at a time of the day when impressionable young people might be watching! Have we forgotten Columbine? I'm not saying any schoolchildren will take smug Clarkson's odious advice onboard but can we rule it out?

I'm proud to be British and I'm proud of our public sector workers, I'm not paying my licence fee so that the BBC can let Clarkson broadcast views as noxious as the fumes from his many gas guzzling motor vehicles! Isn't it about time we stopped paying through the nose to shore up the must-do-Better Broadcasting Corporation.

Elsewhere, I see that Auntie Beeb has BANNED Jeremy Clarkson's appearance on top telly quiz show QI. The hilarious show, fronted by national treasure Stephen Fry, is a highlight of the weekly television schedules, the sort of quality programmes that justifies the licence fee but with its exclusion of hilariously anti-PC Clarkson the Beeb have really shot themselves in the foot! The car crazy presenter could have been a driving force on an episode of the hit show but once again the BBC has pandered to the PC brigade who don't want to see freedom of speech on the BBC.

I'm proud to be British and I think the British Broadcasting Corporation should be a bastion of free speech in Britain today. Unfortunately dear old auntie has once again failed to stand up to its critics. The woolly liberal yoghurt knitters have taken umbrage at Clarkson's recent light hearted remarks about the public sector strikes. Using quotes out of context to back up their opinions and the BBC have crumbled before them. Once again the Political Correctness, Health and Safety Mob has won the day. If the BBC isn't going to use our licence fee to defend free speech from the Eurocrats at the EU then maybe we should be questioning if that licence fee couldn't be put to better use?

Especially when they keep using that licence fee to broadcast rubbish like QI another so-called "star" vehicle for former jailbird Stephen Fry. Another misstep by the beeb who continue to back this wayward "comedian" even after he made a documentary all about depression that could well encourage this country's youth to seek out a life of mental illness, taken in by the glamour of Fry's celebrity lifestyle and celebrity chums! Anyway, my friend Jan Moir tells me she thinks Fry might be one of them and she should know, she writes for a proper paper and everything!

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Thanks Kayleigh, that's about all we've got space for write now but I'm sure that's not the last we've heard from you!