The things they spend our money on

James

It's not even funny. It's like watching The Katy Brand Show or Catherine Tate show, you wait for the punchline and then nothing...

Perhaps not...

Who thought of that?

Bernard from Horsham

Guido got there first

Marcus

Yes! The moment we lose our sense of humour is the moment we really should shut up shop and leave the country.

Nick

Looks more like the work of some IT-savvy No 10 staffer in their lunch hour. I'm not sure the taxpayer has much to complain about.

David Boothroyd

Good god, that must have cost all of 2p. There must be an immediate Royal Commission to take a year to investigate this reckless overspending.

A large group of voters took the time to petition Downing Street about this issue, so they were expecting a response and consenting to Downing Street spending some time on preparing it. It would be an insult if no response was given, wouldn't it?

Lizbrown

is that all the poor sps can come up with?
Jeremy Clarkson would make a far better Prime Minister than the subprime offering we have - actually, a pig in a poke would be a better candidate

Danvers Baillieu

Oh get over it. Everyone is being a little humourless. How much would this have "cost" the taxpayer - probably ziltch. And the idea that the author of this videa should have been "running the country" instead is just silly. The government gets roundly criticised for failing to engage via the internet and then for getting it completely wrong, so it puts out an amusing viral in response to a light hearted petition - so what?

Austin Barry

Is giving millions to African kleptocracies an appropriate 'use' of tyaxpayers' money? Lighten-up chaps.

Cuffleyburgers

As a signatory of a number of similar petitions I was expecting the usual po-faced rubbish reply from the Dear Leader, and was surprised by what I thought was an rather well made little video.

I think it is the mail whcih is being po-faced here, are you are indeed sounding curmudgeonly.

Let's face it the Dowing street petitions thing's a load of nonsense anyway, they don't take any notice even of the sensible ones with massive numbers of signatories such as the Lisbon referendum one.

John Q Davies

I wouldn't mind - it might even have been refreshing but it simply wasn't funny.

marbury

Yes you are being a curmudgeon. This is just a rare and welcome touch of humour from our political leaders. And it won't have cost anything. Honestly, lighten up. This isn't actually meant to be The Daily Mail's online supplement is it?

Richard Holloway

Whether of not it cost the taxpayer is irrelevant, it's the message it sends out that while Georgia is occupied, inflation increases and the credit crunch gets worse No 10 is busy doing this banal exercise.
It wouldn't have happened in Blair's day, a bright person would have asked: "How will this look to the general public?"
This is what has become of a once fearsome spin machine.

The Wonderful Jones

Stupid response by both yourself and the Daily Mail. And you know it is.

Ian

While it's not bad as an attempt at a joke, the irony is that more people voted for Clarkson than have actually voted for Brown.

Richard Heinrich

Oh get over yourselves, it probably took an intern 5 minutes and cost nothing at all. The Wonderful Jones (above) has hit the nail on the head perfectly.

Nicholas

Actually the aspect that struck me most about this odd little video was the Daily Mail's Chris Johnson describing the portraits on the staircase as "paintings". Some of them are photographs - they are all portraits.

Another thought was that the exact same video could be made featuring Herr Braun, starting with the statement that 0 people backed him for PM. No doubt that version will be appearing on YouTube soon.

DonnyB

Only thing that is missing is the sound of carcrash at the end , now that would be ironic.

Play

They wouldn't get away with this sort of thing in Sweden… or Denmark.

Chris

That'll have cost next to nothing. Perhaps you and the Daily Mail would be better off complaining about the billions they've wasted on ID cards, CCTV, E-borders and all the panoply of an overstuffed, overfunded authoritarian state. That's the really criminal misuse of public funds.

Martin

"Is this really an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money?"

Depends on how much taxpayers' money was spent on. Any idea? It looks like it cost approximately nothing.

You're sounding more like a fool than a curmudgeon. It's obviously harmless.

Carly

Lighten up man!

Frank Pulley

er - remind me: when does the silly season end? Perhaps when Andrew Neil returns from vacation?

daniel

get a life - its a joke! it probably cost about zero!