Guido Fawkes has launched an attack on the BBC – from an Islington tank.
However, the stunt may have backfired after the Metropolitan Police were called to the scene to reassure onlookers about the vehicle’s presence.
Top Gear host, Jeremy Clarkson was suspended last week following a “fracas” with a BBC producer.
In his honour, Guido Fawkes launched a petition to get the celeb reinstated, which has so far gathered almost a million supporters.
To celebrate this, Top Gear’s test driver, The Stig, has taken the petition to the BBC Broadcasting House in the tank, owned by Nick Mead, the founder of company Tanks A Lot.
However, to warn passers-by about what the military vehicle is doing, the Metropolitan Police have been forced to issue an advisory.
The warning reads:
There is a self-propelled gun/armoured vehicle being driven through the streets of Central London this morning making its way to the Broadcasting House in Portland Place.
Guido’s campaign is currently the fastest growing petition to ever come from Change.org. However, it is still 9,000 signatures short of reaching its target of one million supporters.
The petition calls for “Freedom to fracas” and demands that Jeremy Clarkson is given back his role in Top Gear, alongside fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May.
A tank being driven by The Stig with a 1 million strong petition to reinstate Jeremy Clarkson #BringBackClarkson pic.twitter.com/lauExQNkTZ
— Drew Knox (@knox_drew) March 20, 2015
Jeremy Clarkson's army parks tank on BBC's 'lawn' but will it influence Lord Hall's decision on his star's future is the Big ?
— paul connew (@paulconnew1) March 20, 2015
if @BBC submits to that idiot in a tank.. then they'll have lost all credibility, More than when they hired that idiot @JeremyClarkson !
— Cantankerous Old Git (@OldCantankerous) March 20, 2015
The whole Jeremy Clarkson thing is a media stunt… Let's face it the Stig sitting on that tank is budgeted by them. #bbc
— Michael James Lacey (@MJLacey20) March 20, 2015
