E17’s Brian Harvey ‘offered Celebrity Big Brother deal’ days before storming Downing Street and demanding to speak to David Cameron

David Cameron is groaning. ISIS are kicking off on the phone, Obama keeps texting him his latest Candy Crush scores and Nigel Farage has filled up his voicemail again. And somewhere, somehow, somewhy, Brian Harvey off E17 is outside 10 Downing Street giving it a load of lip about some stolen cash.

Why is this thing happening? The answer to that is still unclear. All we know is that Brian Harvey off E17 – a man who once had a encounter with a baked potato so violent that he ran himself over with his own car – yesterday stormed Downing Street with a ring-binder and demanded to speak to the Prime Minister.

And the Mirror is now reporting that our Bri was offered a five-figure deal to appear on the upcoming series of Celebrity Big Brother just days before the (latest) bizarre incident.

"He has been offered Big Brother but initially he turned it down," a source told the newspaper.

"His friends thought he was being silly, he isn't exactly rich but he was refusing. Now he is talks again, CBB are desperate to sign him but Brian is still thinking about it.

"He wants to come across well and he isn't sure that he will. That's what is throwing up the doubts," the insider added. It could also be about the cash, because – according to yesterday's onlookers – Brian's political rant was sparked by concerns over how much he was getting taxed.

"He was shouting that the binder was 'evidence' of how much money the govt had stolen from him," one eyewitness tweeted.

"You'll all be dancing to my no. 1 single at Christmas," he apparently screamed at the crowd.

As political stands go, it's perhaps not the most eloquent. Or the most rational. Or even the most persuasive. But, dammit, if a man who once ran over his own body with his own car after eating too many baked potatoes can't have immediate access to the Prime Minister of this country, heat doesn't want to live here anymore.