the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Thursday 21 August 2008. 08:48:00 And on that bombshell... SCOTTISH PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown's office has had a laugh with an online petition to make Top Gear presenter, and fox killer, Jeremy Clarkson Britain's Prime Minister. The online petition, with almost 50,000 signatures, caught the attention of a Downing Street staffer, who decided to respond on Youtube....
Despatch Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Digital Downing Street has posted an audio visual response to a petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to become Prime Minister. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy1w4DV5Hw There’s no crisis, what crisis?
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is great! Hat tip: Rupa Huq
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Downing Street says a jokey video response to calls for Jeremy Clarkson to be PM is not a waste of taxpayers' money.
Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Guido Fawkes has a few words to say about wasting tax payers money. If I was bored in work and had a video camera I would be proud to produce something like this!
janestheone (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
everyone but everyone must have watched this already, but I saw it this morning. F**king genius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy1w4DV5Hw&eurl=http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/08/wild-wild-web-c.html oh by the way the clip is Downing Street's response to the petition
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
No 10 Downing Street has produced an unconventional response to a petition to make Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson Britain's Prime Minister.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nearly 50,000 people have backed a petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made Prime Minister.
Blog Relations (Free subscription) | yesterday
Who says Gordon doesn’t have a sense of humour? An amusing video response from the Number 10 website to the petition to make Top Gear Presenter Jeremy Clarkson PM. By the way, the Number 10 site works on WordPress, as does the Top Gear site.
NewsLite (Free subscription) | yesterday
When nearly 50,000 people signed a petition to get Jeremy Clarkson appointed Prime Minister few expected Downing Street to respond. But yesterday bosses at Number 10 replied in a unique way, a YouTube video ... Gordon Brown will soon be answering PMQs on Twitter. The 55 second slick clip was posted on the official Downing Street channel next to comments from Gordon Brown about troops being...
Gavin's Gaily Gigest (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Only the Tory echo chamber couldn’t have a sense of humour about this latest video from Number 10, responding to the Jeremy Clarkson for PM petition: ShareThis
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Government has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money on a video rejecting a campaign to make Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson prime minister.
The Sun (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
WATCH No 10 deliver a YouTube response to make Jeremy Clarkson PM petition
Mike Rouse (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Tygerland might thing right-wing bloggers are desperate twats for blogging about the response from Downing Street to the Clarkson for PM petition, but this right wing blogger can’t see what all the fuss is about. Plenty of youths with nothing better to do with their time have joined the Facebook group and will hear about the [...]
Just Auto (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to the slightly barking idea of having no-nonsense libertarian and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson as PM (though he shades it over Gordy in my book). The YouTube clip is below. There's also a link to the coverage of the item on the BBC which goes on to describe how some test stuff material made it on to the Number 10 public website - an unfortunate individual being lampooned as a 'prat'...
