Top Gear - Controversy!

[agchristie]

Should Westminster Council have agreed to the filming even at 40m away?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/14/chris-evans-top-gear-cenotaph-bbc-matt-leblanc

[Old_Geezer]

It's the usual bad taste Top Gear stunt which creates more reaction than it should. If folk didn't go off the handle and calmly ignored it then that'd be much more sensible.

[jackthehat]

My immediate reaction when I saw this yesterday was that this seems a crass stunt by a programme desperate to drum up interest for the forthcoming relaunch.

I haven't changed my opinion and, no, Westminster Council should have not given permission.

[agchristie]

OG > If folk didn't go off the handle and calmly ignored it then that'd be much more sensible.

Hang on, Mr Osborne could have made glaring errors in writing his budget.....

[whiskeryron]

NO

[agchristie]

Whatever next? If it isn't some Argy Bargy it's a monumental blunder!!

[retrocop]

Whiskeryron
I hope your RSI soon improves. :-)

[agchristie]

Retrocop, at least he is emphatic!

;)

[retrocop]

AG
Well at 0934 we had an emphatic YES on the Merkel thread and an Emphatic NO on the immigrants in Turkey. Consistent in the emphatics. :-)

[agchristie]

Retrocop, I noticed that ;)

Regarding the story do you think Matt Leblanc has lost some friends :)

[retrocop]

As much as the disrespect,for which Chris Evans, has since apologised I am as much concerned that Metropolitan Police motor cycle outriders MAY of been used in this stunt as well.

[retrocop]

I don't know who Matt leplonck is to be quite truthful apart from him being the driver.I don't know if he had any friends in the first place. Certainly not George Osbourne it would seem. :-)

[CrapAtCryptics]

I liked the original Top Gear but this sort of stunt just seems yobbish and pointless. They dont seem to have anyone on their team with the common sense to say " Maybe screeching up and down by the Cenotaph isnt such a great idea".

[mikey4444]

Jack has it right here....but it proves that the program doesn't need Clarkson to make a complete ass of itself...is seems to managing quite well without him.

[Peter Pedant]

would Jeremy Clarkson or his successors enjoy it if go-faster crazies did wheelies on viddie around his mothers grave

or would he enter into the spirit of it and say
'yeah I wondered why she didnt pop her head out and say good on yer Jeremy ! '

or who ever is the great star now

[mikey4444]

They are all mortified apparently :::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35800874

Well, that OK then isn't it ?

[New Judge]

It’s strange that such mortification seems to be apparent only after the event.

Whether Chris Evans knew of this stunt beforehand is not clear. What is clear that it had been some time in the planning (you don’t get Whitehall closed at short notice) and that somebody who should have had more sense had a major input into the scheme.

Westminster Council must bear some responsibility. Just because there are idiots working for the BBC they should not have acquiesced to their requests. Apart from the disrespectful nature of the stunt there is the small matter that a major London thoroughfare was closed for a significant period for no good reason.

[whiskeryron]

rerocop //

Whiskeryron
I hope your RSI soon improves. :-) //

The op asked Should Westminster Council have agreed to the filming even at 40m away? I replied NO

[retrocop]

whiskeryron
Yes indeed you did. :-)

[agchristie]

Retrocop, if I were you I would pick the dog up by the side of your chair as there may be a call coming your way! ;)

[retrocop]

ag
That is a little too cryptic for me. :-)