So, a while back, some wag named Joseph Dark grasped the democratic opportunity afforded him by the Downing Street website's petitions section, and used it to start an electoral campaign on behalf of motoring expert and columnist Jeremy Clarkson. "Jezza is a legend and deserves to run the country," according to Dark. What japes! When the petition finally closed, it had 49,447 signatories, which, the way things are going right now, might be more people than are likely to vote for poor old Gordon at the next election. Being game souls, however, the people at Number 10 today posted a "humorous" response on YouTube. Shame it's not that funny... Did the boss write the script?
Taxpayers money, fellas. Taxpayers money.
Well, as a British taxpayer, I can think of a worse use for the £1.47 that the clip obviously cost.
Posted by: John | Wednesday, 20 August 2008 at 12:18 AM
There's a more fundamental issue here.
How the Government Information Service (civil servants) has been hijacked for party political purposes.
The latest Garden Makeover of the No10 website is a further example of this.
http://theorangepartyblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-10-website-now-gardeners-world.html
Posted by: the orange party | Thursday, 21 August 2008 at 09:57 AM