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Part I

She even had a Television brought into her dimension in order to break her boredom. It almost worked, until a letter from the TV Licencing people telling her she needed a TV Licence to watch a TV or listen to the radio and that they would visit her home unannounced and make a thorough search to see if she did in fact have a Television, the television was transported to a further dimention between the stars, the letter miraculously following of it's own accord a heartbeat later.
However, in it's brief stay, the Television had given Lily an idea for an intervention so tiny, yet so far reaching, it would be brilliant. All she had to do was plant a single idea into a mere 6 billion people in a way that seemed legitimate, and following on from watching one show, she knew exactly what that thought would be.
A shimmer of light, a brief concentration of power and that was that, it was done. Jeremy Clarkson is the Prime Minister of Britain, and will be until the next election on November 24th 2019.

"The latest series of Topgear, starring the Prime Minister, Jeremy Clarkson MP, the Minister for Farming and the Environment Richard Hammond and the Minister for Science and Engineering, James May will premier on BBC1 at 8:00pm this coming Sunday. Already Kim Jong Un, dictator of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea has threatened 'Dire and Terrible consequences to the people of Britiain if the show, including PM Clarkson's recent state visit to Pnongyang, is aired'.
In response, a spokesman from the Foreign Office replied 'Dire and terrible consequences is a bit strong, it's not that bad, in fact some of it is quite funny. Besides, if it is as bad as some pundits fear then people will just switch off"
Excerpt from the 10 O'Clock news, BBC 1, Friday April 1st, 2016

"Everyone's a critic" - Prime Minister Jeremy Clarkson speaking about Kim Jong Un's threats, April 2nd 2016

"It seems that the morning after the election, nobody could remember the result of the night before, and so we just thought, 'not to worry, at least Clarkson is still Prime Minister', which was odd as the day before, it had been David Cameron" - John Everyman from "Everyman's Diaries", collected works of John Everyman 2015 - 2020 (Penguin).

While the mystery of how Prime Minister Clarkson came into power may never be solved, one thing is for certain, his time was not dull. After finding himself in power, he quickly moved to appoint his television co-hosts into positions within the cabinet.

It began with Richard Hammond, known now as the man who took British farming back to the forefront of the world, and while initially described as an "uneducated agriyob with less idea about farming than a builders trowel has about St Pauls Cathedral", Hammond introduced a number of simple and effective measures that made British farmers both more competitive and less reliant on EU Subsidies, and have since been adopted across Europe, Canada and Asia, much to the chargrin of American wheat farmers. Indeed, the National Farmers Union's decision to make him honourary president for life was widely welcomed by his family in 2033 following his retirement.

James May followed the next month, being appointed as Minister for the new depertment of Science and Engineering. It is alleged that Prime Minister Clarkson remarked on the appointment: "I know we need this stuff, but it's incredibly tedious, and frankly there's only one man tedious enough to actually make a good go of it - get me Captain Slow". This has been denied publically, however James May's autobiography makes many references to "The dolt not being able to grasp the most basic principals without making an arse of himself", but further states that "without him having the sense to let us get on with it, the break through's in controllable cold fusion and roads that last more than 5 minutes without potholes wouldnever have happened". May's program to devolute scientific research to the "Men working in their sheds", then passing the results up the chain to established research labs is directly linked to 14 of the top 20 scientific discoveries of the last 10 years, and indirectly to 3 more.

Part II

It was the Prime Minister's foreign policy that surprised the majority of people. It had been assumed from content and tone of Top Gear's trips abroad that Clarkson especially, would be likely to leave Britiain isolated, a pariah state if not actually at war with at least one nation by the time he was replaced as Prime Minister. In practice, he was much more moderate on many matters than expected. Indeed his unlikely freindship with Angela Merkel was a personal seal on a period of greatly improved European relations which saw Britian take a much greater role in the EU.

Outside of Europe, things took a more interesting turn. Following the rejection of a request from the DPRK to film a Top Gear Road trip through the country, Kim Jong Un immediately announced retaliatory measures which included the banning of the Program from the countries airwaves, (it had never been shown, although 베스트 모터 링 프로그램, or "Best Motoring Program" became a staple for many years), making the White Racing Suit, Crash Helmet, Gloves and Boots combination illegal, claiming that the Jet Engine was a North Korean invention and threatening to sue Frank Whittle and the Rover Group for copyright theft, and personally challenging Prime Minister Clarkson to a race around the Nurburgring.

It is believed that the Prime Minister was personally in favour of the race, and was seen during a trip to Germany shortly afterwards taking the latest version of the McLaren F3 around the track in a very respectable 7 minutes and 43 seconds. Shortly afterwards, Kim Jong Un allegedly made his country's first space flight aboard Glorious People's Sunshine 1 and was replaced while he travelled to Mars by the Temporary President, Jan Il Noon who later negotiated a deal for Great Britian to assist in bring the DPRK up to a reasonable standard of living. It is expected that when this program finished in 2023, that the DPRK and South Korea will enter unification talks.

Possibly the only major blot on the Prime Minister's copy book, was in his handling of the 2017 Falklands crisis. Following a military coup in Argentina in 2016, General Fernando Del Toro stated that he would retake Las Malvinas for the glory and honour of Argentina at the earliest opportunity. While there is credible intelligence that an Invasion fleet was gathered near Rio Gallegos, the pre-emtive sinking of the Argentine Navy's fleet in being on Rio Carmen Silva caused a significant amount of controversy. An Apology for the attack was offered following the restoration of a civillian government in 2019, however this has yet to be accepted.

Domestically , the Prime Minister met opposition for his attempt to introduce a £200 per year congestion tax on caravans with a length greater than 2.3m. This was scrapped, however instead a caravan entitlement was added to the standard car driving licence as endorsement J1 along side the trailer test, however people who already had an HGV or PSV licence were exempted due to prior experience.

A reorganisation of the budget proved a far greater success. Duty on tobacco was reduced, however the money generated from this went directly to the NHS. The sudden influx of funds resolved many of the ailing services issues within months and led to the unoffical slogan of the NHS becomming, "Smoke more, it'll kill you but help everyone else".

The same approach was taken with Road Fund Licence leading to Britian topping the rankings for the best maintained roads in the world for the last 3 years.

Slightly more controversial was the appointment of James Blunt as Minister Of Defence. The former Cavalry Captain and pop star was seen by many as inexperienced and unsuited for the role due to his junior former rank, however his personal freindship with General Bob Rose and general aptitude made him ideal to oversee the reorganisation of the Army and Royal Marines, and later the Royal Airforce and Royal Navy.

Responding to critisism from unknown sources within the Civil Service expressed through the Times, the Prime Minister simply stated that "He can do the Top Gear Track in under 2 minutes, is articulate and very personable and more to the point, and what many of the civil service mandarins forget is that he's actually been in combat while serving his country so has a far better idea of what works and what doesn't than some jumped up bloody paper pusher, and if they don't like it they can sod off to the front lines themselves at any point they wish, ideally yesterday".

Despite rumours to the contrary, The Stig was never approached to become Home Secretary.

Headlines from the time:

"Barking Mad Kim in Top Gear Race rant"

"You Sank My Battleship! - Argie Bargie Bathtub battle"