EVERYONE’s been there – it’s been a long day at work and all you want is a nice hot dinner.

So it’s understandable to be fairly peeved when you discover the only thing available is a cheese roll or a soggy salad.

Any reasonable person faced with this situation would be fairly annoyed and would probably at least have a bit of a grumble. What they wouldn’t do is punch the nearest person in the face.

But then Jeremy Clarkson is apparently not a reasonable person.

You don’t have to be an expert in employment law to know physically assaulting someone in the workplace is grounds for immediate dismissal.

If I was to punch my boss in the face – which I’m not planning on doing Peter, honest – I’d be out of the door faster than you can say “gross misconduct”.

But then, I’m not a millionaire TV presenter.

The latest controversy to surround the odious Top Gear presenter shouldn’t really come as much as a surprise – this is the man who openly used racial slurs on TV on more than one occasion, frequently uses “gay” as a pejorative like some 12-year-old schoolboy rather than the mid-50s multi-millionaire he is and advocated murdering public sector workers who had exercised their right to go on strike over their pensions.

In any other profession someone acting like this would have been out of job long ago, but the BBC seems incapable of doing anything more than just waggling its fingers and calling him a pesky little scamp. Yes, he’s been suspended over this so-called fracas but mark my words, he’ll be back.

Top Gear makes a ridiculous amount of money for the BBC in foreign sales, but frankly I’d be prepared to ensure slightly more rubbish special effects on Dr Who and fewer flashy lights on Strictly Come Dancing if it meant we didn’t have to see Clarkson and his two overgrown schoolboy mates gleefully mock anyone who can’t afford a Ferrari.

Some of us don’t have £14 million a year to throw around, Jeremy.

If the BBC – which is taxpayer funded, lest you forget – has any integrity at all it’ll ignore the petition signed by 928,176 utter morons and finally give Clarkson the marching orders he should have been handed years ago.