[ EU ] The Queen of England names Homer Simpson Prime minister of UK .

It started out as a joke. Later people blamed apathy, the lowering of the voting age, and the corruption scandal. Schools and scholars would debate the real cause. But it started out because some people thought it would be funny. 
 
 After Ed Miliband and the Labour Party won the narrowest election in modern history, Parliament for the first time in living memory had not two, not three or four or five, but six large parties all vying for control. Labour was forced into a shaky alliance with the Greens, the SNP and the Lib Dems, while the Conservatives lost many top MPs to the UKIP. 
 
 Gridlock dominated Parliament. Absolutely nothing got done, as Labour was often at loggerheads with its'allies'. The Tories, who would have capitalised in an instant, were instead focused on turning up their anti-immigrant bashing to appease their UKIP supporters. About the only law that was passed was lowering the voting age to 16, as all the parties thought it would nab them more votes. 
 
 Perhaps inevitably, it was Russell Brand who started the ball rolling. On his popular YouTube show The Trews, he blasted the nation's politicians after the year long investigation into alleged child abuse scandals covered up by previous governments yielded absolutely nothing. In a broadside that recorded 98 million views on its first day, he ranted on about the utter failure of the political class to serve the people, the complete detachment of the politicians from society. 
 
 `` What's it all fucking for, when you get down to it?'' asks Russell. He sits on his sofa, bottle of vodka in one hand, not looking at the camera but staring off into space. `` The wheels keep spinning but nothing ever changes. Things just get worse and fucking worse. I keep saying do n't vote and you stupid wankers went ahead and did it any way and look at what you done. All those families, who will never receive justice. Fuck you all up the wrong'un. I'm away to watch the Simpsons.'' 
 
 The first time someone wrote'Homer Simpson' on the ballot, it made the BBC headlines. There was a by-election somewhere, and no one really cared. Some wag in a university crossed out all the other candidates and wrote in Homer Simpson, and got his friends to do the same. Their votes were disqualified, but what eventually caught the media's attention was that the final vote count was 220 to 193. Out of a district of 25 000. 
 
 It caught on like wildfire. People began writing in'Homer Simpson' on their ballots, no matter who the candidate was. While the officials disqualified all their votes, MPs were being elected on humiliatingly small numbers of votes. It all came to a head when a UKIP firebrand was elected to Parliament with a total vote of just 36 votes. People were calling it a constitutional crisis. Something had to be done. 
 
 A new party was formed. With the full support of Fox ( who welcomed the free advertising ) and the Simpsons writers ( who had never been more relevant in decades ), the Homer Simpson party was formed. Made up of youths and the disenfranchised middle class, the party swelled its ranks, with Homer Simpson as its nominal supreme master. Of course,'Homer' took direction from the party council of democratically elected representatives. 
 
 When the next general election rolled around, it was no surprise when the Simpson party won in a landslide. The palace agreed to perform the traditional ceremony in animation. And that was how her Majesty the Queen asked Homer Simpson to form a government as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
