When Top Gear ended the UK fell apart.

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 · 89 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nah. It fell apart when Pratchett died.

rmuk@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 1y

Ten years ago this week.

GNU pTerry

Logh@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Good point. Lemmy too.

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

True, although correlation does not always equal causation.