Slightly amazingly, 10 Downing St. decided to approve my proposed petition: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow comments to be made on all YouTube videos uploaded by 10 Downing Street.". You can see it on the Downing St. website.
Basically I decided to see what all the fuss was about when Gordon put his famous Youtube video up explaining what he was going to do about expenses. It's actually quite hard to find this video because it has such a low Page Rank compared to the countless video clips edited from this and other GB clips to mock him.
I'm sure if Gordon hadn't suffered a terminal shrivelling of his power the slaves in the back rooms of No. 10 would never have dared to allow my proposal to go through. They probably thought that the PM had more important things on his mind.
I genuinely think that allowing comments on YouTube is a good way of opening up a dialog, and allowing the Common Man to speak unto power. The rhetoric of politicians endlessly talks about the need to do this, but the actions show that they rarely care what ordinary voters think, especially young ones who are very unlikely to vote.
I'm sorry, I can rarely build up enough enthusiasm to write more than 140 chars in a post these days.
