I think if you choose to be a British politician and then go for the top job you must make sure you have the broadest shoulders in the world and the thickest impenetrable skin.You cannot be the slightest bit vain because just about every political cartoonist and satirist will be making the most cruellest of comments and remarks.It's what politicians expect.Much,much worse has been said about them by journalists for as long as we have had any kind of media...
It's not as if Clarkson made any jokes/comments about Brown's family unlike a certain other pair at the BBC.