Hopefully he'll go to Sky, or somewhere he can continue to annoy lefties and self-righteous outrage merchants until he dies amid a haze of cigarette smoke, stale ale and burnt tyre rubber.
As May said, he's a knob but I quite like him. Originally because he was refreshingly amusing, and as the years have passed because his humour stood in defiance of the increasingly rabid PC set and loony left. I dread to think how sanitised TV will be in another decade. Might be enough to drive me back down the pub, where people can make and laugh at un-PC jokes without really meaning them or choosing to take offence.
That said, you can't attack someone in the workplace whoever you are, and there was never going to any other outcome to this.
At least the Indy can stop their desperate and embarrassing hourly Clarkson updates on social media.