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There's A Petition For Louis Theroux To Be Prime Minister

There's A Petition For Louis Theroux To Be Prime Minister

Interesting.

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

You don't need me to tell you that politics is pretty highly-charged lately. You only have to read the news, or check out Twitter, or remember the time you wanted to punch your friend of 11 years because his views were so different to yours...different and wrong.

What we need right now is a calming voice to speak, to speak up for all of us in Britain and make sure that we get the best possible Brexit we can. So, who better than Official National Treasure and all-round thoroughly decent chap Louis Theroux?

Credit: Twiiter/@Louistheroux

You can now sign this petition to get Louis to Number 10 as our next PM. I personally think this is the only sensible option I've heard, so I think we should get on board.

Can you imagine a politician trying to weasel out of answering a question at PMQs? And Louis just allowing the silence to drag on and on, until eventually they crack and admit the truth.

Why Louis?

Well, why not? He can't be worse than ones we've had in previous years and even if he's doing an awful job at least he'll give us some laughs.

He's wonderfully polite, when meeting foreign dignitaries, we can trust Louis to win them over and I think he and the Queen would get on like a house on fire, which is important, surely?

In fact, he seems to get everyone on his side, from America's Most Hated Family to Paul Daniels.


Credit: BBC

He's got a talent for spotting bullshit and isn't worried about calling people out on it, again, a very important job for any potential resident of Number 10.

And, just try and go back on a trade deal, just try it, because underneath his geeky, awkward exterior is a man of steel; he's not afraid to ask the probing, direct questions and that is what politics needs more of.

Even if he knows he's not going to get the truth, he will keep asking anyway. In an interview with the Guardian he told them about the time he spent filming in a Miami jail where there is absolutely 'no snitching'.

Credit: BBC

He said: "'I hear someone was stabbed in here last week.' And there's 20 guys around me going: 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' And I go: 'Well who did it?' I'm still going to ask it, and they're still going to say: 'For fuck's sake, that's the one thing we never say, don't you know anything?'

"Sometimes I'll watch a whole prison documentary and they're asking what the food's like, how long has the guy been in for, where does he sleep? No! You ask what he did, and why he did it. That is the elephant, that is what's screaming to be asked. Then you can worry about the food."

He's also pretty good at growing facial hair and if Abraham Lincoln taught us anything it is that strong leaders have strong beards.

Credit: Twitter/Louis Theroux

This is the guy the UK needs right now. Do the right thing, sign.

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