Lets go back to the middle ages, then, shall we ?

From the BBC:

MP calls for Clarkson to lose job

A Labour MP has written to the BBC insisting Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is sacked for a recent joke he made on the BBC show about prostitutes.

Ipswich MP Chris Mole called the remark a "dismissible offence". Five women working as prostitutes were murdered in his Ipswich constituency in 2006.

Clarkson, 48, was taking part in a driving task, when he joked about lorry drivers killing sex workers.

Over 500 people complained to the BBC about the comments.

'Clear expectations'

Steve Wright, 50, was jailed for life in February after being found guilty of murdering the five women in Suffolk.

Clarkson made the joke while taking part in a lorry-driving task on Sunday's edition of Top Gear on BBC Two.

"Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day," he said.

In response to complaints earlier in the week, the BBC said: "The vast majority of Top Gear viewers have clear expectations of Jeremy Clarkson's long-established and frequently provocative on-screen persona.

"This particular reference was used to comically exaggerate, and make ridiculous, an unfair urban myth about the world of lorry driving, and was not intended to cause offence."

Bloody hell, what is this country coming to ? Firstly two edgy comedians, alright, a flashy chat show host & someone with no discernable talent, make edgy comments about a specific individual, and are rightly slapped on the wrist. The fact that Russell 'famous for bugger all' Brand resigns hides the fact that he only does two hours a week at the BBC anyway and his Hollywood film career is just setting off. Whooppee do, big loss for him.

There must have been thousands of people who were just too slightly late to jump on that particular band-wagon.

But not to worry, the best thing about witch-hunts is there's always another just round the corner.

Step forward Mr Clarkson.

I personally hate cars, hate tories and hate people who oppose speed cameras. But I love Top Gear. Don't know why, always have done. Maybe it's because of the hosts, who knows. I don't hate lorry drivers and still don't. I think what Jeremy Clarkson said was funny, but it won't make me change my mind about lorry drivers, why should it ?

But for this jumped up little nobody demanding that someone lose their job for, what is basically, doing their job beggars belief.

Why don't we just have done with it, pick people at random, and try them for being witches ? Paint crosses on peoples doors. We could have dunking stools in Market Square, and old crones on the front row knitting.

What next, human sacrifices to sun gods ?

Mind you, it's hard work being an MP, to paraphrase Mr Clarkson:

"Don't vote, don't vote, read mail, shag a rent boy, don't vote, don't vote, shag. That's a lot of effort in a day,"