The Clarkson’s Farm star reckons Prime Minister Keir Starmer is aware of nothing about operating bars or companies – and he might by no means think about him on a ‘boozy evening out’

Jeremy Clarkson dismissed Keir Starmer’s plan to let pubs open till 2am as a waste of time – as a result of they’re ’empty by 9′.

The Clarkson’s Farm star, who runs his personal boozer, mentioned the Prime Minister is aware of nothing about operating bars or companies. He might by no means think about the PM having a ‘boozy evening out’ as a result of ‘socialists don’t do enjoyable’.

He additionally claimed that any plan to permit 2am opening hours to assist them rake in additional cash was nugatory as a result of no-one has late nights out ‘any extra’.

Clarkson, 65, advised the Sunday Occasions: “I am advised by restaurateurs that their gaffs are empty by 9.

“And you may sense it on the streets. By 10, everyone seems to be at house and so they’re abandoned.

“So what is the level of staying open until 2am? It will merely enhance the already huge wage invoice and the even larger power prices and usher in a grand complete of no additional clients.”

Clarkson mentioned the hospitality business’s plight was ‘dire’.

“It shed 89,000 jobs within the 9 months following Rachel Reeves’s first finances and it is reckoned 100,000 extra are in danger following her catastrophic follow-up final November,” he mentioned.

The TV motormouth mentioned the issue was ‘made worse’ by Starmer.

“You can attempt to clarify to him that pubs are a British custom however he would not like that kind of factor,” he mentioned.

“I need you to shut your eyes and attempt to think about him in a pub, along with his mates, getting rounds in, telling tales, laughing, and having a good time earlier than deciding to have ‘another for the ditch’.

“In different phrases, attempt to think about him having a boozy evening out. You may’t, are you able to?

“Socialists do not do enjoyable and this implies he would not perceive what a pub is or what we’ll lose when his punitive politics of envy shuts all of them down.”

Clarkson mentioned villages now not have docs, policemen, colleges or vicars.

“All that is left is the pub and if that goes, what’s left? Just a few homes stuffed with chilly, hungry lonely individuals who cannot even go to associates as a result of they’ve all misplaced their driving licences,” he added.