Well Hes Always Going On about what he would do in his country... Maybe he'll get his shot (I've Got His books and I live in the UK, I think its safe to say I'm screwed)

Jeremy Clarkson: British Prime Minister

Rust-MyEnemy and POLAR: Assistant speech writers and replacement Stigs.

@POLAR: I'll have the James May stint. Should suit my driving "style".

........but I'm starting to get worried about those skating rinks.....

..is Jalopnik letting me post yet?

ALL RIGHT!

I like Clarkson.

But I wouldn't allow to house sit for me, much less run my country.

Easy call. Would you trust this man with your Grandma's life savings? Hell no!!

I don't think it will work, I can't see him laying down and letting us Americans do whatever we want.... like the last couple administrations.

Well, he is pompous enough.

@CEMan: Pa-shaw.

Can't they just make him Ambassador to the US?

True, but I bet if he became Prime Minister, the Atom becomes the mandatory car for every citizen, and caravaning would be illegal (he said so himself). Also, I would immediately move to England until its economy collapses.

first day in office would involve removing the health and safety department, making highly efficient cars illegal, making the G-WIZ illegal, and leaving the kyoto treaty

I say Graham Norton as PM, and POLAR and I can be his co-speechwriters, with varying guest Jalops contributing. Oh, and I'd be Cabinet Head of fluffing...

While it is neat that Brown is soliciting comments from the governed, look what you get. A petition to make a TV presenter PM.

@teargas: well it worked for us rubes over here. we had a second rate actor as president, a bodybuilder and crappy actor as california governor and a professional wrestler as another governor. there are more examples than just this but i think that's quite enough as it is.

@Charles_Barrett: Ever watch Little Britain?

Given Clarkson's apparent loathing for all things American and the fact that Great Britian has first-strike capability I don't think it would be a good idea.

@teargas: Seriously:-

This all pretty much sums up the state of the UK. We're all over the place. Half the country probably doesn't even know whois in government anyway, and if they did it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.

I think the Jezza vote was, not necessarily that he'd make a good politician, but he almost certainly has more resolve, integrity and in common with the man on the street than anyone in official government does.

By the way, with our politics all over the place, if anyone out there is dead bent on empire-building, now would be a really good time to invade.

Help yourselves. We'll go quietly.

@harumph: Sure. But my point isn't that Clarkson would be a bad PM, but more that the level of political discourse in GB seems equally as pathetic as that in the Good 'Ol US of A.

Would The Stig become a real-life James Bond?

Maybe we can get Dennis Gage to run for president here in The States. When was the last time we elected a president with a moustache?

@FLB: I have not. I don't know if my BBC America carries Little Britain.

It would be an iteresting experiment. Since I am sure after a week of working for a living that doesn't include power slides. He would promptly step down. Since he would have to fight with all the other parliamentarians to get anything done. You know how he likes everything his way and if you don't agree then your wrong.

If Rustam "Rusty #3" Mamedov is president of Azerbaijan, Jeremy Clarckson can without doubts be Great Britain's Prime Minister.
Message to Lamborghini: prepare an armored Gallardo.

@Charles_Barrett: Well, if they ever do: [www.bbc.co.uk]

Somehow I think Jezza would pull an "if elected, I will not serve" thing.

If that happened I think it would be a hoot to see The Stig as the new transportation minister.

BY MR4SPEED AT 04:05 PM
"Given Clarkson's apparent loathing for all things American ...."

He can always move here since he qualifies as a left wing Democrat!

See how versatile we all are?

Cars and politics?

Awards all round, I think.

so.... those of us on the 'new world' got through this post with only mentioning ronald reagan & arnold schvarzeneger? how could one forget jesse ventura? or that stand up comic george w. bush??

@Rust-MyEnemy: "...now would be a really good time to invade.

Help yourselves. We'll go quietly.

Go? Why go anywhere? Britain without the British? What good would that be? It'd be more like, um ... Ireland.

Hmmm. That would be pretty sweet.

OK, we'll do it.

@Mr4speed: If the ICBM only hit Detroit,the usual target of his venom ;ist hat such a bad thing?

@Mr4speed: If the ICBM only hit Detroit,the usual target of his venom ;is that such a bad thing?

@lascauxcaveman: Just leave my Saab alone.

@FLB: Yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah!

@kingedwin: Double-O Stiggy?

@chrystlubitshi: Harumph mentioned Jesse Ventura above, just not by name.

I'd move there if he was Prime Minister. Getting rid of the speed cameras. More places like the Isle of Man. All those crazy traffic laws that governments seem to put in place would all be gone. Road construction won't take years. It's all in the Top Gear episodes.

Clarkson once punched Piers Morgan at an awards ceremony, which was long overdue to the odious little creep. Give him a week in Parliament and he'll have laid out half the ministers, insulted the other half until the leave if a huff, and done everything that the taxpaying public dreams of whenever we're unlucky enough to see Prime Minister's Question Time..

@skaz:
In a Churchill/Iron Lady kinda way.

Wink,Wink, Nudge,Nudge

@Mr4speed:
My ancestors whipped they're ass with the equivalent of a cap gun. Bring the limey's on!!

Wink,Wink, Nudge, Nudge

@Rust-MyEnemy: When Her Magesty was here--not this last time but maybe 15 years ago?--students held up signs saying "Please take us back. We're sorry." And she, contrary to expectation, was amused.

@Fitty7lax: Im gonna be right behind you on that move to England. I've always wanted to go there now there would be a reason to stay.

@Isetta: Only if Tom Nhatiw(?) ,The Speed World Challenge guy, gets to run Canada.

@Novaload: The times they are a-changin'...

Mr. Bean could run the Trade Councils and us Yanks would happey to send Dario Franchitti back to be Ministor of Transport. (we would trade his wife for one of the "Spice" skanks!)
As for the 'Merican President, none other than A.J. Foyt! I think Smokey Yunkick would have qualified quite nicely as Secretary of State.

i really like Clarkson.. it would be interesting to see what he would do.. The press conferences would be legendary

If this were to happen, we'd need James May as the head of the opposition so he could shout 'YOU INSUFFERABLE OAF' across the house at every opportunity.

I think his first act would be to make a 4th lane on the M1 for supercars only

Does he remind anyone of Colin Montgomery?

Jon
[www.sportscardriven.com]

Maybe if he ran for the official Monster Raving Loony Party. I mean, the proposals seem legit, no? [www.omrlp.com]

Link to petition: [petitions.pm.gov.uk]