Hacked Off Donors #2: Jeremy Clarkson Gave Hacked Off £1,000
The most surprising donation of £1,000 to the Hacked Off campaign came from Jeremy Clarkson. Campaign staff were amazed at the news of the donation.
Should they be? Jeremy Clarkson, despite being a working journalist, did not hesitate from serving his ex-wife and the press with a super-injunction that prevented the reporting of his extra-marital affairs. The multi-millionaire member of the Chipping Norton set and friend of David Cameron has obviously decided that shackling the press will protect his privacy less expensively and more successfully than a super-injunction. Hypocritically he is on the record as being opposed to legislation yet wishing the Daily Mail would leave him alone. Torn as he was, he seems to have backed controlling the press…
Bizarrely back in 2011 an unfounded rumour went around Twitter linking Clarkson and Jemima Khan. She described the entirely false rumour that she had taken out a super-injunction to prevent publication of intimate photos of herself and Jeremy Clarkson as a “nightmare”. Quite.
What could have brought on the donation to Hacked Off?
Got a nice text from Francie Clarkson and also one from Jeremy, "It's odd. I'm sure I'd remember if any photos of us existed."—
Jemima Khan (@Jemima_Khan) May 09, 2011
Well as the above tweet shows Jezza is on good terms with campaign fundraiser Jemima…
Is #6 going to be Kevin Bacon?
Zis iz a joke, Ya? Zis name? Iz a joke und der Knockwurst ?
John Chipolata surely.
They once showed Clarkson’s feet on TV.
Not Nice.
Many old bangers require de-coking.
Am sure it was just a routine service.
You are the Stig, and I claim my £5.
Did he have problems with his compression, big end and timing?
Or his big end? and on that bombshell……
I will report any nasty comments about me to the new press regulator where Hugh Grant, Harriet Harman and Polly Toynbee will be ready to dish out some exemplary punishments.
I am a serious intellectual and campaigner for progressive causes. It isn’t true that people only listen to me because my daddy was rich and I used to be pretty.
What’s that you say? Why don’t I give some of my money to those poor people? Ha ha, good one. Now, when’s my next dinner party?
You’ve already given some to one poor person in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Why does Guido care about Clarkson being a complete hypocrite?
Guido happily protects other journalists who have affairs. The media feel they are above the rules they set for everyone else. What’s new?
Thin ice Guido.
The difference is the ‘journalists’ don’t court publicity for themselves but if they do they become fair game. or hadn’t you noticed
Have you read most columnists work? They all desperately seek publicity.
Why are so many of them on twitter then? What crap. That all want to be some well paid columnist or on sky reviewing papers
Another thing the EU with it’s power to impose fiscal controls can try to do:
Should stimulate an interesting response from the people of France.
Madame Guillotine will again taste the blood of the elite!
YAWN !!! Very old hat, Francois. Gordon and I did that years ago. Mind you, we screwed over £ 100,000,000,000.00 out of the silly old codgers and no-one’s fathomed out how we redistributed it to buy new voters.
Indeed. And there should have been a lot more noise made about that.
It does look like Brown was a trailblazer of sorts for the economic numb-nuts’ over the channel, and in the UK too…
I believe certain substances if taken in excess can damage your memory.
I’ve never heard that.
is it surprising?
Klaxon is the popular press on TV – feeding the mob’s oafish prejudices – he would at least hedge his bets – then throw the brick in line with their fears/hates
the BBC’c ‘horn of plenty’ indeed!
“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinion calculated to embarrass the government?” Nikolai Lenin circa 1920.
is Len in?
Press regs here. Savings stolen in Cyprus, pensions raids in France. Are the elite gearing up to hand out a large chunk of totalitarianism?
Yes. My news friend Ed Milibland calls it ‘pre-distribution’.
Next time you gather together for a drink with Guido….keep an eye on your phone, keep it locked, and change the pin code…..he is on The Sun Pay roll after all
Yes, you never know who might lift your phone and tweet ‘up the IRA’, leaving you in the shit
I am of ze sinking zat it vould be of a much better ideas if ze English papers were permitted to continuing their obzessions viz ze knickers of ze celebrities.
Zat vey zey do not need to report on ze loaning of ze bailouts to EU members and ze taking of ze depozits by ze higher authority.
Pleaz do change your zo called levezon law..AT ONCE!
6 months ago- Hezza plan is foolish, too costly, unworkable.
Today – errrrr we will implement Hezza plan in full
LOL
U – turn number 347
Only 315 and he’ll have beaten my record!
I bet the tosser will start going after my re-launch record next.
Lets see if he can get to 62. That’s 3 relaunches a month, I managed.
Clarkson’s so bad they named the pits after him.
I suppose we’d better drop that “Star in the Reasonably-Priced Tart” feature for the next series…
Ve hev vays to mike you zink vat ve vant you to zink!
Looks like this may be a crock of shit. Clarkson is denying it.
Great journalism from Guido yet again. What a damp squib.
Fawkes spends most of his time deleting posts and modding comments these days. This used to be a good site once.
clarkson now saying “To be very clear, I haven’t given any money to Hacked Off.”
so… he gave it to Jemima then?
If you’re wrong about JC I guess we can take the rest with a big pinch of salt then.
Guido, you plank.