Elf & Safety

Jeremy Clarkson is a hero of mine. There are those of us in this wonderful land we call Great Britain that would like to see that lanky, tousle-headed chap take the keys to Number 10 Downing Street, and I’ll tell you why. He’s a man who truly believes in, and defends, that basic right of all mankind: the right to be free. The right to go about your everyday business without the interference of do-gooders telling you what to drive and how fast to drive it, telling you you can’t call women birds or make humorous references to golliwogs, but most of all Jeremy Clarkson is not afraid to say what everyone’s secretly thinking but is too afraid to say out loud for fear of incurring the wrath of the “PC Brigade”. That thing that Clarkson is not afraid to say is this: it’s time to do away with Health & Safety. I tell you, no one piece of legislation has done more to damage British business than Health & Safety. There was a glorious age in this country when your average working man wasn’t afraid to go down a coal mine and get his hands dirty for 12 hours a day in order to earn the money to just about be able to feed his family. Now of course all the Health & Safety regulations have made coal mining in this country completely uncompetitive. Granted it’s true that before H&S regulations hundreds of men died in the coal mines every week, and thousands more were seriously injured, and it’s also true that most mines on mainland Europe were modernised and introduced basic Health & Safety requirements long before the UK, and as a result actually turned out to be far more efficient and completely out-competed the out-dated, dangerous, inefficient working practices still maintained by the mine-owning gentry in this country; but still, think where we could have been if the government hadn’t started interfering and “protecting” the “rights” of those blokes who risked their lives to supply the country with fuel!!

No, argue all you like, but the simple fact is, and what nobody other than Clarkson and a few other courageous Sun and Daily Mail readers are willing to stand up and say is: we need to abolish Health & Safety. History shows us that people do just fine without Health & Safety legislation. Industrial accidents have always happened and always will, there’s absolutely no reason to examine the causes and try and prevent them in future, that’s bad for business and bad for the country.

Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister, that’s what I say. Someone not afraid to stand up for the freedom of the average working man (so long as that freedom doesn’t include the freedom to work in a safe environment, drive on safe roads, live in a safe home, send his kids to a safe school and so on and so forth). What the PC Brigade doesn’t understand is that a man is born free, free to do whatever he likes, whenever he likes to whoever he likes without fear of consequences. That’s the kind of world Clarkson envisions, and that’s the kind of world I want to live in.