HUMANITY no longer needs pushy twats who show you around houses they have never been to before and know nothing about, scientists believe.
New research has revealed that the profession, hated across all cultures, should have died out the moment you could put pictures of a house and its floorplan on the internet.
Dr Helen Archer said: “We can land a robot on a comet, but we still somehow need wankers who drive too fast in their shiny Mini Coopers and are disappointed you’re not free for an uninformed tour at 10am on a Wednesday.
“There are loads of jobs for that kind of bellend – finance, mobile phone contracts, cryptocurrencies – so why are they getting in the way of our buying houses? Do we really need a middleman in place just to claim they haven’t had anything from your solicitor?
“Fire them all tomorrow, everyone puts their houses on Rightmove themselves, take the estate agents to the sea and release them to start new lives, far from sought-after cul-de-sacs and en-suite wet rooms.
“Maybe they won’t live. That’s evolution for you. Smallpox died out and we don’t miss it.”
Estate agent James Bates said: “Necessary? Perhaps not. But does it give me an artificially inflated sense of power and importance, making me bolt-hard? Yes.”