Jeremy Clarkson slams Starmer’s 2am pub plan and says it is a waste of time
The Clarkson’s Farm star reckons Prime Minister Keir Starmer knows nothing about running bars or businesses – and he could never imagine him on a ‘boozy night out’
Clarkson has slammed Starmer’s plan for the British pub(Image: PA)
Jeremy Clarkson dismissed Keir Starmer’s plan to let pubs open until 2am as a waste of time – because they are ’empty by nine’.
The Clarkson’s Farm star, who runs his own boozer, said the Prime Minister knows nothing about running bars or businesses. He could never imagine the PM having a ‘boozy night out’ because ‘socialists don’t do fun’.
He also claimed that any plan to allow 2am opening hours to help them rake in more cash was worthless because no-one has late nights out ‘any more’.
Clarkson, 65, told the Sunday Times: “I’m told by restaurateurs that their gaffs are empty by nine.
“And you can sense it on the streets. By 10, everyone is at home and they’re deserted.
“So what’s the point of staying open till 2am? It’ll simply increase the already massive wage bill and the even bigger energy costs and bring in a grand total of no extra customers.”
Clarkson said the hospitality industry’s plight was ‘dire’.
“It shed 89,000 jobs in the nine months following Rachel Reeves’s first budget and it’s reckoned 100,000 more are at risk following her catastrophic follow-up last November,” he said.
The TV motormouth said the problem was ‘made worse’ by Starmer.
“You could try to explain to him that pubs are a British tradition but he doesn’t like that sort of thing,” he said.
“I want you to close your eyes and try to imagine him in a pub, with his mates, getting rounds in, telling stories, laughing, and having a great time before deciding to have ‘one more for the ditch’.
“In other words, try to imagine him having a boozy night out. You can’t, can you?
“Socialists don’t do fun and this means he doesn’t understand what a pub is or what we will lose when his punitive politics of envy shuts them all down.”
Clarkson said villages no longer have doctors, policemen, schools or vicars.
“All that’s left is the pub and if that goes, what’s left? Just some houses full of cold, hungry lonely people who can’t even visit friends because they’ve all lost their driving licences,” he added.
