The Mexican Ambassador Doesn’t Like Top Gear

It seems that the Mexican ambassador has a thin skin.

The Mexican ambassador in London has complained to the BBC about “xenophobic” and “offensive” comments made by the motoring show’s presenters.

Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza has demanded an apology after Richard Hammond jokingly described Mexicans as “lazy, feckless, flatulent [and] overweight” during an episode of the BBC2 show screened on Sunday.

His co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May went on to describe Mexican food as “refried sick”.

Clarkson, who has repeatedly been criticised for making offensive comments on the programme, said on Sunday’s show there would be no complaints this time because the Mexican ambassador would: “be sitting there with a remote control like this,”. The presenter pretended to slump in a chair, snoring.

The Mexican ambassador has written to the BBC, however, demanding that it order the presenters to make a public apology.

Oh, good grief! It’s banter. Okay, maybe it’s in bad taste, but still, to make a diplomatic incident out of it is just a little silly. This is what the world has come to, getting hot under the collar because a silly TV presenter makes some lazy stereotyped remarks for a cheap laugh. Rather than ignore it, which is the appropriate response, we have the professionally aggrieved making the whole thing much, much worse by drawing attention to it and their immature fit of pique. So, it’s not Hammond, Clarkson et al who come out of this looking like right tits… And that takes some doing.

At this rate, humanity will have evolved away all of its vertebrae and be flip flopping back into the oceans.