A fair response or a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money?

[Quinlad]

Downing Street has issued a tongue-in-cheek response to an e-petition. In April the website received a petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made prime minister.

Downing Street always posts responses to petitions and normally the replies to the jokey ones are pretty terse. But last night, in response to the Clarkson request, it put up this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/a ug/20/gordonbrown.media

A flippant waste or No.10 showing a human side?

[Gromit]

Well if you are going to go to the expenses of having a website you might as well make it as user friendly and entertaining as possible.

The video is just a bit of text over some existing film. It would take about 10 minutes to do. About the same time your average civil servant takes for a fag break every hour. There has been no expense spent.

It's not funny though. If you are going to do something like this, a bit more creative wit would have been welcomed.

[jake-the-peg]

Now if the portrait had fallen off of the wall, caught fire and bounced down the stairs that would have been a better punch line!

[BertiWooster]

A light hearted petetition - with a light hearted response , costing next to nothing

Some people are boring old farts - aren't they

[ll_billym]

Should have spent a bit more taxpayers money and actually made it funny. I'm sure Clarkson will get some laughs making fun of it.

[China Doll]

You mean that wasn't a serious petition I signed? Tut.

[jake-the-peg]

..and the new Prime Minister arrives at the UN in the State Bomb-proof Ferrari, skidding through the gates in the now traditional regalia of tatty sports jacket and jeans before walking in to express the UK's position to the cheese and sausage eaters

Maybe not indeed

[BertiWooster]

China Doll

I saw you laughing your head off , when you were signing it