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By top gear ending, I mean the removal of Clarkson, Hammond and May. In 2015 they were fired and everything went to shit starting with brexit the following year.

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[–] freamon@preferred.social 88 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Clarkson has been trying to warn us for years, and we haven't been listening. He punched a producer when his dinner wasn't on time, to highlight the impending delays to food deliveries after Brexit. He left the BBC to work for Amazon, presenting a show that was a shadow of it's former self, to illustrate how billionaires diminish everything they touch.

He couldn't be clearer with his messaging, but the UK continues to ignore him.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And after the affair, he moved out into the country to buy a farm so that he could avoid inheritance tax unsuccessfully, which is clear signalling that he knew that Brexit would flop

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah. It fell apart when Pratchett died.

[–] Logh@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good point. Lemmy too.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

True, although correlation does not always equal causation.