the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | yesterday
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....
Driive (Free subscription) | yesterday
PA Downing Street was accused of wasting taxpayers' money by making a joke film in response to a petition. The 55-second clip was created after nearly 50,000 people backed a call for Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson to be made Prime Minister. Read the full story now.
Despatch Blog (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
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?
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Rightwing bloggers are not impressed by Downing Street's response to 'Jezza is a legend' e-petition
The First Post (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
You'd think Gordon Brown would have more things to worry about than Jeremy Clarkson, the oafish presenter of the BBC’s motoring programme Top Gear. But it appears not. Toilers in…
Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The Daily Mail reports here that number 10 have issued a youtube video puncturing the petrolhead with Smashy and Nicey voice’s hopes of being PM. Watch it here. The moral of the story is that 49,447 people can be wrong, as Parbury pointed out at the time of the Draft Clarkson e-petition’s compilation. By the way, can I [...]
Darren Grover (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Downing street have responded to the popular campaign for Jeremy Clarkson to be the Prime minister. Which received nearly 50,000 signatures on a petition on the petitions.gov.uk site. The video response can be seen below:
Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
When almost 50,000 people signed an online petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made the Prime Minister they can't have ever thought that they would be taken seriously. And today it emerges that they weren't. But they've not been ignored either. Instead the Prime Minister's office has sent-up their request in a video reply (which is actually quite funny). "We thought long and hard about the...
Gavin's Gaily Gigest (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
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
Scorched Earth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Downing Street has been criticised for its video response to the petition to make Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister. The criticism is predictably coming mostly from the political right. The Tories haven’t found it in the slightest bit amusing and have accused Number 10 of frivolously wasting tax-payers money at a time when rising prices are affecting the British public. Well they’re grasping [...]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
DOWNING Street chiefs were under fire last night - over a joke video taking the mick out of Jeremy Clarkson.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
No 10 Downing Street has produced an unconventional response to a petition to make Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson Britain's Prime Minister.
The Navel of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you don’t know who Jeremy Clarkson is, or don’t have a sense of humor, you won’t get this, so go read The Guardian: Downing Street always posts responses to petitions and normally the replies to the jokey ones are pretty terse. But last night, in response to the Clarkson request, it put up this. Okay, it’s [...]
The ThunderDragon (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The Jeremy Clarkson video has caused quite a stir. But, seriously! I mean, it’s not “genius“, but it is pretty clever. There is no way it cost very much to make, even it wasn’t made during a “spare half hour”. There are many examples of far greater amounts of government waste that doesn’t end up with [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Nearly 50,000 people have backed a petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made Prime Minister.
