Overview
- In a Sunday Times column, Clarkson said he had looked into leaving Britain after describing the country as an "unsalvageable basket case" with a "broken future" of taxation, crime and disease.
- He called Australia, New Zealand and the United States obvious destinations and singled out Dubai as appealing for low taxes, cheap fuel and effective policing.
- He wrote that relocation is burdensome, saying you cannot simply buy a house and open a bank account because the required forms and criteria are "tiresome."
- He concluded that staying near friends and family made more sense, adding that in about three and a half years "the horror of Keir Starmer will have gone."
- His Diddly Squat Farm remains under bovine tuberculosis restrictions following a positive test this summer, though the farm shop continues to operate.