Calls Gordon Brown “a one-eyed idiot’ (February 2009)
Despite personally apologizing for calling Gordon Brown a “one-eyed scottish idiot”, when he compared him to the Australian prime minister to Kevin Rudd. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a world leader [Rudd] admit we really are in deep shit,” Clarkson was reported as saying. “He genuinely looked terrified. Poor man, he’s actually seen the books. We have this one-eyed Scottish idiot who keeps telling us everything’s fine and he’s saved the world and we know he’s lying, but he’s smooth at telling us.”