Jeremy Clarkson has brutal response after fan claims Brexit is to blame for struggling British farms – as others beg for him to be made agricultural minister
Jeremy Clarkson has issued a brutal response to a fan who said Brexit was to blame for the difficulties British farms are experiencing; His supporters begged him to become minister of agriculture.
The former Top Gear star said he had to question his follower’s “grasp of reality” during a heated debate on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Jeremy, 65, responded to comments left by fans in a video he shot for farming campaign group No Farmers, No Food, which advocates for fair wages, sustainable practices and government policies to keep the industry stable.
Speaking in a video he shot on his phone, the TV presenter said: ‘I am Jeremy Clarkson and I would like to see the Government prioritize agriculture in the next Parliament.
‘We have been asked to diversify and when we try to do this local authorities tell us we can’t and it needs to be addressed.’
User One X replied under the video: ‘Please join Reform. ‘You can be the farmers’ advisor/intermediary between their Farming needs.’
Jeremy Clarkson has issued a brutal response to a fan who blamed Brexit for the woes on British farms; his supporters begged him to become minister of agriculture
The former Top Gear star, who owns a farm, said his follower should question his “understanding of reality” during a heated post on X, formerly known as Twitter
The second countered: ‘The old Brexit party is the reason most farms are struggling. They’ve lost subsidies from the EU and it’s now cheaper for most shops to buy from the EU than domestically.’
To which Jeremy responded: ‘Oh dear. You can’t seem to grasp reality.”
The heated debate has sparked debate among X users about farming in Britain, with some even calling for Jeremy to become agriculture secretary.
One wrote: ‘Farmers are the most important people. Without them we’d starve,’ another chimed in: ‘Always buy locally whenever possible.’
‘Stay with the council,’ another encouraged, as another fan wrote: ‘Agriculture minister candidate Jeremy Clarkson.’
‘A double-edged sword. “They tell you to diversify, but tie your hands so you can’t,” wrote a fifth person, while a fifth wrote: “What I don’t understand is… Why is it okay for one group of people to tell another group of people what they can grow and what they can’t build on their land?”
The No Farmers, No Food account is a farming advocacy campaign founded by media commentator James Melville, who grew up on a family farm in Scotland.
The account is run by 20 farmers from across the UK and features videos and quotes from famous faces talking about farming, including Jeremy, David Beckham and Saturday Kitchen’s James Martin.
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The farming advocacy group, which advocates for fair pay, sustainable practices and government policies to keep the industry stable, shared a video of Jeremy
Jeremy, 65, responded to comments left by fans under the video he shot for agricultural campaign group No Farmers, No Food
Although Clarkson is a prominent supporter of British farmers and frequently shares his thoughts online, he has recently distanced himself from the group.
In 2025, he wrote on his social media profile that he had ‘nothing to do with the account’ after the page was linked to an erroneous quote he shared.
However, Jeremy continued to voice his thoughts on British farming on his own social media, telling fans that the pub he runs ‘fully supports British farming’.
Earlier this month, the former Top Gear presenter won a 13-month planning saga to improve the car park at his Cotswolds pub but faces another showdown over the overflow area.
It has been given permission by West Oxfordshire District Council to create a permanent car park for 170 cars and to ‘formalise’ staff parking at the Farmer’s Dog in Asthall.
The pub has been a hit with fans of the Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm, but it’s not that popular with locals fed up with the massive increase in the number of cars on the roads.
Despite the latest planning victory, there are still discussions about Mr Clarkson leasing a 34-acre site nearby and using it as an overflow car park.
As soon as Mr Clarkson received the housing lease he knew he had to increase parking capacity due to what had previously happened when he opened the hugely popular Diddly Squat Farm Shop near Chadlington.
The heated debate has fueled debate among X users about farming in Britain, with some even calling for Jeremy to become agriculture secretary
The former Top Gear presenter has won a 13-month planning saga to improve parking at a Cotswolds pub but faces another showdown for overflow space
The overflow car park has now been covered with reinforced aluminum sheets to protect the neighboring 1,400-year-old burial mound containing the remains of an Anglo-Saxon warlord.
A geophysical survey of the subsurface was triggered last summer when Mr Clarkson applied for retrospective planning permission to use the site as a temporary overflow car park, despite having already used it for that purpose last year.
Locals complained about the application, saying Clarkson only wanted planning for 360 cars, but last year they said they saw 1,000 cars parked there at one time.
Asthall Parish Council said it met with local residents at its last planning meeting in December and raised their concerns with West Oxfordshire District Council.
The minutes stated that concerns ‘included support for heritage input on resurfacing the car park, police input, the actual number of parking spaces needed and the fact that this was for temporary use’.
The neighborhood council said that ‘there was a consultation about the speed limits in the area, but there was not enough information to make a definitive comment on the figures, and although there was a request for data, no information was received’.
Signs stating that ‘there are many unnecessary signs in the area that need to be removed’ pose a problem for the neighborhood council.
A decision has not yet been made on the retrospective planning application, with the West Oxfordshire District Council website stating the application’s expiration date as 23 December.
It has been given permission by West Oxfordshire District Council to create a permanent car park for 170 cars and to ‘formalise’ staff parking at the Farmer’s Dog in Asthall.
Closing the overflow car park would be disastrous for the pub, which is almost entirely reliant on punters.
But Mr Clarkson was given the green light It concerns parking for 170 vehicles and staff parking, but this has strict conditions.
Due to the chaos the pub has caused on the roads, Mr Clarkson’s planning team is required to submit a Transport Management Method Statement.
The statement should detail vehicle access, parking strategy, ‘measures to be put in place to ensure safe and efficient operation’ and ‘proposed use of signage’ due to ‘potential high levels of traffic generation and demand for parking during peak periods’.
Mr Clarkson’s successful application received no objections from Oxfordshire County Council’s archaeological services, who were satisfied that it would not damage the burial mound and stated: ‘This is an area of archaeological interest, but the proposals will not lead to any new disturbance to the subsurface and therefore there are no archaeological restrictions for this scheme.’
The TV presenter spent £1million to take charge of The Farmer’s Dog, which is close to his base on the hugely popular Clarkson’s Farm TV show, and spoke about how expensive the project was.
Farmer’s Dog is bracing for an expected increase in customers with the spring launch of Amazon Prime’s new line of Clarkson’s Farm.
It seems that the series mainly highlights the opening of the bar.
