- Jeremy Clarkson as a human being is a loathsome bigoted asshat.
- As a political commentator he is the intellectual equivalent of a full-grown baby mainlining fetal alcoholism.
- As a self-appointed representative of the Brexit generation he pours hate, misogeny and prejudice into the body politic in angertainment rags that smart people only collect to line cat litter trays.
Yet, in 16 episodes Jeremy Clarkson has done more to focus the reality of modern farming than the Archers' storylines or the BBC's fictionalised Cunny File has done over decades.
- Jeremy Clarkson manages to portray himself as a near necrotic bumbling fool who has managed to rehabillitate himself, gain sympathy from vegans and animal rights activists and might even catch a carbon-dioxide-emitting-petrolhead or two off guard.
- He manages to lift the veil on the rampant authoritarianism and illegitimate victimisation perpetrated by corrupt and unaccountable state employees and institutions while trying to make a living.
- Broadcasts the type of box-ticking that goes on in local authorities to avoid legal peril - and the waste of time and money wasted on holding sham hearings because regardless of the evidence presented, the councellors had already pre-determined the results through the sleaze and corruption available in any local authority.
Watch Clarkson's Farm and you will never dream of a farming life. Look at the landscape and all you'll want to do is move there for the beauty of the countryside ... which appears to be the problem in a nutshell. There is no beauty without farmers and there is no work without businesses starting up in the country-side.
- Clarkson has a thousand acres of mostly arable farmland in an area of Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty near Oxford.
- All the people whose job it is to keep those views natural and beautiful are farmers - but the villagers want to prevent the farmers in the area from making a living and are preventing Clarkson from developing his own land on the premise that anything he does will damage their 'views' which outweighs any employment opportunities.
- In the first season Jeremy Clarkson's battles his own ignorance and is forced to live with weather and with this brings the reality of cereal and sheep farming - and should be essential education for anyone who has ever walked down the meat aisle of a supermarket.
- The series is splattered from top to bottom with the ugly human silage provided by Chadlington residents who want to be surrounded by farmland, but actively hate that farming creates light and noise and hate that farmers and especially Jeremy Clarkson exist at all. Chadlington residents are presented as a bunch of self-centred, spiteful, small minded NIMBY types whose lives have been changed because anything that Clarkson does gives people a reason to use the road through their village - a road that we collectively pay for and a road that villagers don't want anyone else to use.
- During the two seasons, Clarkson's struggles with the environment and livestock and only succeeds through following the advice of Kaleb and Charlie, his professional advisors.
- Jeremy Clarkson survives both seasons because he has access to an almost unlimited level of financial resources to hire and buy expensive toys to do any job is the one advantage that few other people can ever bring to the table.
- The first season exposes the insane level of regulations underlining the abolute disaster that DEFRA have subjected the farming industry to in order to "safeguard" the food chain. No one disagrees with the idea, but the implementation and regulations suck.
- Both seasons deal with the costs of farming and the constant need for vets through illness, birth or insemination and those who take all the risks and do all the hard work are ripped off by supermarket buyers and when things don't work out are often left with nothing for an entire season's toil.
- The second season portrays an out of control local authority controlled by the worst, nasty and vindictive sociopaths who are paid to make the local area run smoothly using light polution for stargazers as a reason to close down much needed commerce, prevent employment opportunities and deliberately harmed the survival of farming in the area.
It's a fascinating exposé - everything that is happening to Jeremy Clarkson parallels our sector's abuse at the hands of absolute stupidity and unchallenged power wielded by the likes of DEFRA and local authorities.