Richard Branson, Jeremy Clarkson and Jenson Button, the British public's candidates to be Secretary of State for Transport

The transport system in the British Isles does not seem to be going through its best moment, and it coincides with a period of many changes in British politics. What this has to do with cars (and bearing in mind that the English couldn’t care less about political changes) is that two personalities from the motoring world were chosen by the public to be transport minister in a public poll.

The condition was that the person chosen should not be a politician. The poll was led by Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Racing, with 26%, while Jeremy Clarkson got 24%. The current Formula 1 world champion and driver for McLaren, Jenson Button, received some votes, but he trails far behind with only 6%.

It is said that if Clarkson were elected, he would run over hybrid cars, muscle cars, bicycles and anything else moving around Great Britain that did not meet the characteristics of an Ariel Atom. On the other hand, if Lewis Hamilton were not dark-skinned, I think he would be well up in the poll.

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