Jeremy Clarkson tears apart Green Party manifesto as he ridicules Zack Polanski: 'Pay taxes to give to fat and lazy!'

He blamed the current state of economic affairs on the fact that "we have rewarded greed, and punished compassion."

Mr Polanski also predictably blamed privatisation, deindustrialisation, and nearly a decade and a half of Tory rule as reasons why the country has become "a place which made money for people who own the place”.

Among the main takeaways from the speech was Mr Polanski's desire to introduce tax reform, roll out rent controls, and bring the water industry under national ownership.

The Green Party leader's much talked-about wealth tax also reared its head during his speech, as did his desire to overhaul the country's fiscal rules.

Therefore, it will come as no surprise to fans of anti-socialist farm owner Mr Clarkson that the former Top Gear star wasn't exactly won over.

"So the Green Party has started to give us a taste of what its manifesto will say," Mr Clarkson began in his latest column regarding Mr Polanski's speech.

The Clarkson's Farm star summarised: "It’s a fairly straightforward message. 'You work, and then we take the money you pay in taxes and give it to the fat and the lazy.'"

But his critique of the Greens and Mr Polanski, in particular, didn't stop there.

Elsewhere in his column for The Sun, Mr Clarkson sarcastically mused how life on Venus, despite being uninhabitable, would have at least one upside because Mr Polanski wouldn't be there.

He mocked: "When you read the news these days, it’s easy to imagine that Earth is the worst planet in the Solar System. Sure, we are told that Venus is pretty unpleasant.

"The temperature at the surface hovers around 900 degrees Fahrenheit, the clouds are made from sulphuric acid, and the atmosphere is 92 times more dense than on Earth, so it would crush the human body like that submarine that tried to go to the Titanic.

"One minute you’d be Buzz Aldrin and then, unless you’d dissolved or boiled first, you’d be smaller than an ant.

"However, on Venus, there is no life form dropping bombs on another land mass six thousand miles away. No one is shooting farmers. 13-year-old girls in mini-marts are not being offered vapes in exchange for sex.

"There’s no superpower building military bases in the oceans. And there’s no Venusian equivalent of Zack Polanski. So it’s not all bad."

Mr Clarkson then reeled off a rather pessimistic view of life at the moment, before referencing a new planetary body scientists have spotted 205 trillion miles away.

This isn't the first time Mr Clarkson has put Mr Polanski in the firing line, either, following the Green Party's surge in popularity in recent months.

Their first public spat came back in October, when Mr Clarkson used one of his newspaper columns to deride Mr Polanski as a "snaggle-toothed vegan."

Mr Clarkson had taken issue with the Greens' aforementioned wealth tax before he said of Mr Polanski: "He is constantly banging on about how he’s going to sort out the country, and I just sit there thinking, 'Mate, you can’t even sort out your own teeth'."

Mr Polanski hit back at the time, saying he had "lots of things to say" in response to Mr Clarkson's jibes, but decided it "wasn't worth it" because "he knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks."

Their clash didn't deter Mr Clarkson, who reemphasised his disdain for the Green Party leader in February.

Mr Polanski had just announced his party's planned policy to decriminalise drug use, and even suggested a ban on hard drugs had been "racialised."

Writing in the Sunday Times last month, Mr Clarkson admitted he was "staggered" to hear Mr Polanski was keen on legalising drug use.

"I’m staggered, really, to hear that Green Party fella with the bad teeth and silly walk saying he wants to legalise (marijuana). We should do the exact opposite," he penned.

"We should do everything in our power to dissuade people from smoking it, and we should start by removing all taxes on pubs and breweries so that the healthy, friendly alternative that they offer becomes more attractive than ingesting a foulness that makes you violent and boring."