- Jeremy Clarkson reveals his children are considering not returning to the UK after an eye-opening holiday in Costa Rica
- Clarkson criticises UK policies, stating they hinder entrepreneurship and favour a Costa Rican-style lifestyle
- The Clarkson’s Farm star has shared plenty of provocative stances in the past
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that an eye-opening holiday has convinced his children to perhaps never return to the UK.
The Clarkson’s Farm star, 65, shares two daughters, writer and podcaster Emily, 30, and Katya, 24, as well as one son, Finlo, 27, with his ex-wife Frances Cain, whom he was married to from 1993 to 2014.
The former Top Gear star has made no secret of his distaste towards the current state of the UK, especially critical of higher taxation policies and any semblance of a left-wing agenda.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, announced her Budget last week, which promised a ‘three-year freeze on income tax threshold result in taxes rising.
Meanwhile, property and council tax have also seen increases for the wealthiest.
Right on cue, Clarkson has shared his discontent, slamming ‘young people with pink hair chanting “tax the rich”‘ in his latest column for The Sunday Times, and arguing that any budding entrepreneurs have been cut off at the knees.
It seems, though, that a revelatory holiday to ‘jungle surf town’ and seaside oasis Costa Rica has opened his and his children’s eyes up to a whole ‘nother world.
‘Exclusively populated by an international smorgasbord of extraordinarily beautiful, peace-loving young people,’ Clarkson said that what he at first found ‘hippyish and annoying’ soon started to grow on him.
Reflecting on the little idyll where people rejoice in ‘nature’s bounty’, spend their afternoons surfing and operate quaint businesses with ‘one or two’ shops and not a capitalistic ’empire’ – he understood the appeal.
As he wrote: ‘My own children started to buy into this. They considered not coming back to the UK, and who can blame them?
‘In the UK it’s difficult to get on the bottom rung of the ladder and impossible to climb up it, because Reeves doesn’t believe in that sort of thing; not at her core. It revolts her.
‘I suspect she’d like it if we all adopted a Costa Rican surfer lifestyle. It’s green and friendly and kind and everyone has a dog.’
Although he spends the rest of the article admiring the merits of a quieter, slower and more humble life, he concludes by coming back around full circle by arguing someone has to make the ‘refine the fuel for your quad bike’.
The wealthy TV presenter and Diddly Squat Farm owner – whose net worth is an estimated £55million) – is well-known for his vocal stances on various issues, and his bold decisions.
In the past month alone, he has announced his bid to attempt to trademark his own face after coming across cryptocurrency AI scams using his likeness to endorse their product.
And he has doubled down on his hardline 100% British products only policy at his pub, Farmer’s Dog, going as far as turning away birthday cakes that may contain non-British ingredients.
In fact, tonic water (which can’t be made here) is the only foreign product which makes the cut.
Elsewhere, he has maintained his image as a provocative figure and in one recent column even joked about punishing people who litter the woods with helium balloons by ‘hit[ting] the back of their hands with a hammer’ .
He wrote: ‘I know the parents would bleat, “Oh but he’s only four”. Yes, well now he won’t do it again, will he.’
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