Is this Cameron's Sepp Blatter moment?

[John Skelton]

And 488,117 people have joined the Facebook group "Jeremy Clarkson For Prime Minister."

Really? "Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister - Open group · Common Interest - 21,225 members" *
"Jeremy Clarkson For Priminister [sic] - Open group · Just for Fun - 2,404 members"
Jeremy Clarkson should own England - Open group · Organisations - 2,598 members"

are the most popular Jeremy Clarkson groups I can find on Facebook. There's a Jeremy Clarkson for President group, which has 79 members, and smaller 'for Prime Minister' groups with under 100 members (I use the word members in the sense of people who belong to a group, you understand ). How do you arrive at 488,117?

* https://www.facebook.com/group.php?g...3371668&v=wall

Enjoy.

[ahinton]

And 488,117 people have joined the Facebook group "Jeremy Clarkson For Prime Minister."

Let's face it, he couldn't do much worse than most of the recent incumbents at No.10.

Maybe not, but then what about David Cameron for Top Gear presenter? Jut think - he could turn it in quite a different direction merely by seeking to invoke something of the sense of that long-running BBC R4 programme colloquially known as ISIHAC - i.e. I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue - simply by ensuring the continuation of the rôle of the ever-delightful Samantha...

[Mr Pee]

Really? "Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister - Open group · Common Interest - 21,225 members" *
"Jeremy Clarkson For Priminister [sic] - Open group · Just for Fun - 2,404 members"
Jeremy Clarkson should own England - Open group · Organisations - 2,598 members"

are the most popular Jeremy Clarkson groups I can find on Facebook. There's a Jeremy Clarkson for President group, which has 79 members, and smaller 'for Prime Minister' groups with under 100 members (I use the word members in the sense of people who belong to a group, you understand ). How do you arrive at 488,117?

* https://www.facebook.com/group.php?g...3371668&v=wall

Enjoy.

Oh well, you need to try a bit harder.

The title of the group is "Jeremy Clarkson Should be Prime Minister." 488,103 members. So it's lost 14 members, although if you add in all the smaller groups that you so helpfully found that are advocating the same thing, then it's obviously considerably more than 488,117. And those who have left were probably teachers or other public sector workers without a sense of humour or any idea of context.

Enjoy.

By the way, apparently retail sales were up 38% on the day of the strike. So at least the day off wasn't wasted. Some Christmas shopping got done.

[ahinton]

Have you thought about standing yourself Mr Pee? I see from your picture that you already doing the bike thing. All you need is an energy windmill and an address book of dodgy celebrities. The world is your oyster. I assume it was Eton.

No, that's not Mr Pee at the bike; that's a bronzed English composer leaning against his bike outside Hereford Cathedral (and, believe you me, the weather around there isn't the kind the exposure to which would cause anyone to get bronzed)...

[Pilchardman]

No, that's not Mr Pee at the bike; that's a bronzed English composer leaning against his bike outside Hereford Cathedral (and, believe you me, the weather around there isn't the kind the exposure to which would cause anyone to get bronzed)...

Everyone knows that if you add Pee to bronze you get verdigris.

[ahinton]

Everyone knows that if you add Pee to bronze you get verdigris.

Poor Verdi! - relegated to the status of eminence grise...

Anyway, "Jeremy Clarkson for PM" is all very well but its sheer prematurity is on a part with the immaturity of those suggesting the idea, since one has first to be elected an MP, then one's party has to elect one as its leader and lastly - if one's party is in opposition at the time - that party has to win a General Election; clearly, these little local difficulties do not bother the campaigners for JC for PM.

[amateur51]

By the way, apparently retail sales were up 38% on the day of the strike. So at least the day off wasn't wasted. Some Christmas shopping got done.

Up 38% on what, Mr Pee?

Sales the day before?

Sales the same day last year?

[MrGongGong]

aaaha the well know misuse of the %

sell one today
and two tomorrow

thats an increase of 100%

[John Skelton]

Oh well, you need to try a bit harder. The title of the group is "Jeremy Clarkson Should be Prime Minister."

Which wasn't what you said. You said -

And 488,117 people have joined the Facebook group "Jeremy Clarkson For Prime Minister."

Which is what I looked for. You should be more precise, Mr Pee .

Very impressive. It's nothing like as impressive as SpongeBob SquarePants' fan club, though "29,322,125 like this."

You need to "Like SpongeBob's Page to Unlock Exclusive Content" https://www.facebook.com/spongebob. If you are so inclined, of course!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Jeremy Clarkson for P.M? Equally strange things have happened, e.g. Boris for London Mayor; Nick Clegg for Deputy P.M.

[ahinton]

Jeremy Clarkson for P.M? Equally strange things have happened, e.g. Boris for London Mayor; Nick Clegg for Deputy P.M.

Or yet Gordon Broon for Chancer of the Exchequer, indeed - but JC for PM would still have to presuppose successful completion of those preliminary stages outlined in #216 above.

I wonder what policies he would seek to implement were he ever to attain such office, though? One of the first would doubtless be changes to speed limits - as in all current limits to be made into minima. Abolition of compulsory motor insurance might well be another (although those pesky insurance companies would very soon find an alternative with which to sting us). All horse race courses to be converted into motor racing venues, peut-être?

[Mr Pee]

All horse race courses to be converted into motor racing venues, peut-être?

Oh yes- he'd get my vote just for that. Excellent idea.

[ahinton]

Oh yes- he'd get my vote just for that. Excellent idea.

I'm not sure that Elgar would have agreed with you, any more than do I, having less than no interest in motor racing (did ELgar make frequent use of the top gear on that bicycle, by the way?). Not that this matters , of course because, as I've said before, there are several preliminary stages through which JC would have successfully to go before any real risk of his UK premiership might arise.

[Mr Pee]

This might interest viewers of these boards:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8936027/Jeremy-Clarkson-is-a-boor-but-hes-only-trying-to-amuse.html

Clarkson and Composer of the week in the same article.

[ahinton]

This might interest viewers of these boards:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8936027/Jeremy-Clarkson-is-a-boor-but-hes-only-trying-to-amuse.html

Clarkson and Composer of the week in the same article.

And the latter immediately following the former, at that; the prospect of his being Prime Minister's appalling enough, but that of "Clarkson as a Radio 3 presenter" speculated upon by the author here is surely infinitely worse?