Jeremy Clarkson has shared he is really quite fed up with certain people ‘whingeing’ over the quality of free school meal parcels, following national outcry over images of paltry hampers.
The Grand Tour host, who recently went through a bout of Covid-19, felt there had been some ‘shameless profiteering’ from companies who put together the food bundles for disadvantaged families, but he thinks people should largely be happy that they are given the packages in the first place.
It comes after footballer Marcus Rashford was joined by prominent figures including Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in signing a letter to Boris Johnson to call for a policy review into the way food is provided to impoverished families.
In his The Sunday Times column, Clarkson wrote over the weekend: ‘On the food front, I think [Marcus Rashford’s] fight is noble and well judged, and I agree that some shameless profiteering is going on.
‘But I am fed up to the back teeth of the whingeing this story unleashed.
‘We live in a country where children from less well-off families are entitled to free lunches when they are at home. Yippee.
‘But instead of celebrating that fact, and concentrating on making sure the food they get is not half an ounce of mould and a dead dog, I heard a woman on the news the other day demanding that she be given £30 to provide lunch for her child. Thirty quid? Where’s she going to take him? Fortnum & Mason?’
He went on and blasted those who would prefer to receive supermarket vouchers than an actual food hamper, suggesting it was so ‘she could exchange it at the supermarket for fags and scratchcards’.
The 60-year-old presenter then turned his attention to teachers, suggesting they are workshy and should stop complaining.
He wrote in a statement that is sure to raise eyebrows: ‘And don’t get me started on teachers, because, as far as I can tell, instead of working out how they will educate their pupils in these troubled times, every single one of them is to be found on the news every night, with his laptop at the wrong angle and a terrible painting in the background, saying that Boris Johnson should buy every child in the land an iPad and that no teacher should have to work again, ever.’
Agreeing that for 98% of the population life ‘is pretty bloody awful’ Clarkson insisted he did ‘get it’, saying no one wants to wait in a cold line for the Covid-19 vaccine when the delivery truck is ‘stuck in the snow’.
However, he believes instead of helping we’re complaining.
He concluded: ‘In the olden days, a British person would have dealt with these trials by going outside to help push the stuck vaccine delivery lorry. But not any more. Now, we’re more likely to storm out of the tent in a sulk of shuddering shoulders and tears, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time — and if you don’t like it, you can all eff off. And I want a free laptop.”’
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