Beki Adam – Top Gear Mutineer

You might think that landing a coveted job presenting BBC TV’s Top Gear would be the peak of most people’s careers. Not for tonight’s guest, Beki Adam. For her, presenting the most widely-watched factual television programme in the world was just the start of a long, and very strange journey... that may yet take her to a seat in the British Parliament.

Predecessor of the infamous, bigoted and fisticuffy Jeremy Clarkson, Beki is the opposite of a petrolhead: she runs an organic farm. She has an environmental conscience. She spent seventeen years as a Buddhist nun. And now she's running for Parliament. Against none other than the Right Honorable Sir Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames-- Conservative Party stalwart and grandson of Winston Churchill.

Beki’s election opponent, The Right Honorable Nicholas Jabba Soames

But is she cut out to be a politician? Her history will surely be called into question: when confronted by catastrophic flooding in Bangladesh, her reaction was to open a cannabis cafe-- and yes, unbelievably, those are related. Unlike Clarkson, she holds little appeal for the average UKIP voter, appears to be a humanitarian and has decided to run independently (currently 5 out of 650 seats are held by independents).

Her district, Mid Sussex, is also girding to become one of the country's main outlets for hydraulic fracturing, a dangerous gamble that could provide the UK as little as a two-month's supply of petroleum-- yet poison the groundwater for generations. And who do you think is vociferously anti-fracking?

Never mind the organic farm-- is she ready to get her hands really dirty?

The odds on Nicholas Soames are 100/1. His pockets are deep, his lineage impressive. But Soames is pro-fracking, an Eton graduate and also chairman of the notorious "private military" firm Aegis-- think the UK's version of Blackwater.

Aegis has "Explosive Protection Dogs Teams."

She is no doubt fighting an uphill battle-- but is it unwinnable?

Nonsense! says Beki. That’s the doctrine of Implied Inevitability (listen to the show). If we want things to change for the better, they can – but only if we take action.

Links mentioned...

Gasland documentary on Youtube
Follow Beki on Twitter @bekiadam1

Help her campaign/question her here

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