The Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright on Jeremy Clarkson 'forgetting his Yorkshire roots'

Sophie Mei Lan speaks to Peter Wright for the Mrs Yorkshire podcast by The Yorkshire Post.

Transcript

00:00What are your views on Jeremy Clarkson and Clarkson's family?

00:03Oh, well, I think Jeremy is not lost his Yorkshire roots.

00:14I think he sometimes forgets them.

00:17And I know when a time ago now, he was critical of Channel 5,

00:25that the fact that they had fallen in love with Yorkshire,

00:29and he struggled to understand what all that was about.

00:32And he reeled off all these Yorkshire programmes,

00:35including the Yorkshire Vet,

00:37and including the fact that they made a television programme

00:40about me called The Peter Wright Story.

00:42He said, what's all that about?

00:43One of these days, I'd love to meet Jeremy

00:46and tell him what it's all about in true Yorkshire fashion,

00:49which in language that he'll understand.

00:52But also, I think he's been a wonderful,

00:56wonderful advocate for farming.

00:58The farmers love him because he says it as it is.

01:02And my wife loves Jeremy Clarkson.

01:05She loves it when he was on Top Gear.

01:07She will watch those old programmes over and over again.

01:10And I was never into cars.

01:12My wife was, but I think what he's done for farming

01:17is immeasurable, really.

01:19And with the present conflict with the government,

01:22as it is now, over inheritance tax,

01:25which I went to support with a protest in Thirsk.

01:29And I felt so strongly about that

01:31because it's one more nail in the coffin

01:34of small family farms.

01:36And I feel very, very strongly about this.

01:38The government do not understand life in the countryside.

01:43They don't understand anything about running a business.

01:46Jeremy Clarkson does.

01:48And Jeremy Clarkson shows farming for what it is,

01:52that it's a struggle.

01:53It's a struggle.

01:54They always say with farming,

01:56and this is what the government do not understand,

01:59with farming, you turn a large fortune into a small fortune.