Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has slammed Boris Johnson in a recent interview, suggesting that Prime Ministers shouldn’t be elected based on who has the “weirdest haircut”.
The German coach also made reference to former US President Donald Trump and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage as he called for change in the type of people who are prominent in politics.
Klopp said that the most recent elections had been based on personality and not “the best possible people” for the top jobs.
Speaking on Gabby Logan’s Mid-Point Podcast , the Reds boss admitted his disbelief at the current political landscape.
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“Why do we let people like Farage and Johnson lead any kind of group of people in any direction?” he said.
“Obviously people with common sense are not needed or used at least in this town.
“They should be but that’s the problem, the people we vote for or the whole system that gives us opportunity to vote for these kinds of people.
“I have to say at the last two elections, first with Donald Trump and [then with] Boris Johnson, that’s really a bad sign for the whole world that this can happen because everybody knew beforehand that it will not work but we still let it happen as a society and I cannot believe that.
Though Trump has since been replaced by Joe Biden in the White House, Klopp said he finds it “incredible” that Johnson is still in office.
Klopp also took an indirect swing at the country’s leadership when praising Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign, saying that it was “a bit of a shame” that a footballer had to intervene in that way.
“It’s not a nice job as well, I have to say," Klopp admitted, when speaking about the role of Prime Minister.
“That’s probably why not a lot of people fancy it because it’s pretty intense and when you have a few days holiday everybody says ‘well you should solve that now’.
“It’s not an easy job to do.
“But that’s why we have to find a system where we can bring people in the position to solve all our problems [who] are the best possible people and not the most funny or the weirdest haircut or whatever.
“You can make a mistake but you have to learn off it and hopefully we [can] learn.
“There are people out there definitely, we just have to give them a platform.”
