Jeremy Clarkson, one of the presenters on The Grand Tour, has slammed ‘muddle-headed lefties’ that attacked British historical statues and called for school children to be taught about Britain’s fight to end the slave trade.
Mr Clarkson wrote in the Sunday Times saying: “Until last year no one had really heard of Edward Colston. But then, all of a sudden, every muddle-headed leftie decided that he was the bronzed embodiment of Saddam Hussein, so they raced into the centre of Bristol and, having hit his statue with their shoes, tore it down and threw it into the harbour.”
“Soon, other muddle-headed lefties from other towns and cities were rampaging around looking for other statues to hit with their shoes.”
Jeremy wants stories such as the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron, which was formed in 1808 – a year after Britain abolished the slave trade, to be taught in schools.
He continued: “The squadron saw 2,000 Royal Navy sailors give their lives while capturing 1,600 slave ships and freeing 150,000 slaves.”
“It had been a huge operation, swallowing up 13% of the navy’s manpower.
“And it’s reckoned that it cost far more than Britain earned from its earlier slaving enterprises. That’s not something you’ll hear in many classrooms.”
He added: “I guess that muddle-headed lefties really don’t like the idea that for nearly a hundred years, and at vast expense, the country that they hate waged easily the most morally just war of all time.”
Mr Clarkson’s comments come as a summit to “defend our history” begins this week, attended by 25 of the country’s leading heritage bodies – The National Trust, Historic England and the British Museum are among some of the institutions who will be taking part and sitting down with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden who is expected to warn them against attempts to rewrite Britain’s history to appease a “noisy minority of activists” are trying to “do Britain down”.
Mr Dowden recently said: “Whilst I agree that we should use heritage to educate people about Britain’s rich and complex history, this work should never be driven by ideology.
“Proud and confident nations face their past squarely; they do not seek to run from or airbrush the history upon which they are founded.”
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