Jeremy Clarkson has taken to Twitter to mock former Somerset MP Neil Parish who resigned after claiming he accidentally looked at porn in the House of Commons while searching for a tractor website.
The MP from Bridgewater and former farmer went on TV on Saturday afternoon to say he would resign after being named as the politician reported for twice by female colleagues for watching porn in the House of Commons.
And the former Top Gear presenter, who is the star of Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm, was one of many social media users to poke fun at the former politician.
Clarkson tweeted: “I spent all day looking at tractors.”
His post was a hit with his follows, with more than 60,000 liking it.
Others joked the Clarkson’s reality farming series should be aired after the watershed.
Explaining his porn watching at work, the MP said: “The situation was that, funnily enough, it was tractors I was looking at and I did get into another website that had a sort of very similar name. And I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn’t have done.”
“But my crime – biggest crime – is that on another occasion I went in a second time.”
He admitted that second time had been deliberate and that it happened in the House of Commons while he was sitting waiting to vote.
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Parish said what he did “was absolutely totally wrong”, adding: “I will have to live with this for the rest of my life. I made a huge terrible mistake and I’m here to tell the world.”
He said it was a “moment of madness” but denied watching the material in a way where he hoped other people would see it, saying he was trying to be discreet.
“I was wrong what I was doing, but this idea that I was there watching it, intimidating women, I mean I have 12 years in Parliament and probably got one of the best reputations ever – or did have,” he said.
Many celebrities and members of the public flocked to social media to joke about the MP’s confession.
Numerous images of tractors were tweeted with raunchy comments and some suggested that farming magazines should be put on the top shelf in the newsagents.
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Pointless host Richard Osman joked under an article about his resignation: “‘Tory Neil Parish’ is an anagram of ‘parties hornily’. The clues were all there.”
Former Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins asked cheekily: “When watching tractor porn, does he get a Massey Fergus-on.” David Baddiel said the row was “Fantastically Little Britain” and hoped the statement “Funnily enough, it was tractors I was looking at” would become a national catchphrase.
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