Jeremy Clarkson launches fierce defence of Royal Family amid anti-monarchy fears from 'shouty mad Left'

Now, Clarkson began his latest newspaper column by admitting he fears that "pressure to abolish our monarchy is building", predominantly because "Lefties don’t like royals and want to be rid of them as quickly as possible after seizing power".

Clarkson referenced a Channel 4 investigation into the Royal Family's assets that alleged the King and Prince William have "earned millions" from contracts with public services and charities.

O'Brien previously raged about the investigation on his LBC show, branding the claims "one of the grimmest things I've read about my country" and saying the royals were "taking the Mickey".

To Clarkson, it was an over-blown story that was unsurprising - "a small thing you'd hear and turn the page" - but he took aim at O'Brien's reaction and the subsequent uproar from part of the Left.

"When news of this reached the king of the lefties, the LBC presenter James O’Brien, he looked so pained I thought the King had run amok in a church with a sword," Clarkson penned.

"I truly love James. He is the funniest man on the internet because he always acts like he truly can’t understand why the whole world doesn’t share his views."

Soon after, Clarkson mused what would happen if the UK became a republic and a president had to be elected, using the latest US Election race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as evidence it "rarely works out".

He even pondered if GB News' own Nigel Farage would emerge as a likely popular choice with the public to take the position of hypothetical ruler.

'This is one of the grimmest things I've ever read about my country.'
'They are taking the mickey!'
@mrjamesob reacts to the Royal Family's 'obviously egregious and completely indefensible' receipt of millions in rent income from the NHS, schools, and the armed forces. pic.twitter.com/13rzdJ44I0

— LBC (@LBC) November 4, 2024

"Nigel Farage would be on the list — and that would certainly make me happy," Clarkson said in the Sunday Times. "Not because I want him as president, but because I would so enjoy James O’Brien’s face if he were successful."

However, in the end, when pointing out Farage would likely be opposed by Carol Vorderman as the candidate from the "shouty end of the mad left", he encouraged anti-monarchists to change their way of thinking.

O'Brien is yet to respond to Clarkson's latest pop at him in the media, but he's far from the only Left-leaning figure to fall into the former Top Gear star's firing line of late.

Writing in the Sun on Friday, Clarkson raged that Chancellor Rachel Reeves was plotting to "ethnically cleanse the country of farmers" to make new towns "for immigrants" thanks to her inheritance tax raid.

"I’m becoming more and more convinced that Starmer and Reeves have a sinister plan," he wrote.

"They want to carpet bomb our farmland with new towns for immigrants and net zero windfarms. But before they can do that, they have to ethnically cleanse the countryside of farmers.

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"That’s why they had a Budget which makes farming nigh on impossible. And that’s why I’ll be in London on the 19th," he continued, referring to an upcoming protest by independent farmers on London later this month.

Clarkson had planned to take to the streets with the NFU (National Farmers' Union) but the organisation called off its protest for "legal reasons".