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Bristol Post
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Emma Grimshaw

Jeremy Clarkson calls for pension to be paid to 18-year-olds instead of pensioners

Jeremy Clarkson says the Government should pay school leavers a state pension for 10 years. Writing in his often-controversial column, the long-time TV presenter said: "this is when you want retirement pay" to better "enjoy anything you care to throw at it".

The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? presenter compared it to being of the current pension age when "your organ is broken and your joints are better at forecasting the weather than the Met Office".

Clarkson went on to say "old people are so much better" to employ because "they don’t need binary lavatories, because they are often in nappies; and they don’t need to rush off every five minutes to get a morning-after pill".

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