In a bid to be the first Prime Minister to fully embrace the internet, Gordon Brown has and his government have started a large number of portals to engage with the online world. There's a Youtube channel, Facebook page, Twitter feed, an E-petitions site, plus other sites.

Unfortunately for Brown, he has spectacularly failed to be successful in any of them. Brown's MP expenses video on Youtube only received a paltry 4000 views. Compare that to Dan Hannan's scathing speech to the Prime Minister at the European Parliament which has over 2 million views or Brown's infamous nose picking video which has had 600,000 views so far and you can see where he hasn't fully succeeded.

The Downing street E-petitions site which was suppose to be a serious tool to "allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up a petition enabling anyone to deliver it straight to the Prime Minister" has also been hit and miss for Number 10. From successful petitions with respectable issues like the RNLI, Tax issues, University fees, there has also been not so serious like making Jeremy Clarkson PM (which incidentally had nearly 50,000 signatures).

This has been a bit of a nightmare for Number 10 and i'm starting to wonder if someone should take Mr Brown and his team to PC World for a virus clean up.

PM Gordon Brown has had to back down and abandon the thursday vote over his MP's expenses reform.

From announcing the reforms on You tube to abandoning the idea, this has been an embarrassing and humiliating process.

Brown's borrowed idea from the European Parliament of MP's being paid for turning up for work just did not wash with the general public and MP's who knew this would not solve the problem of their reputations.

Luckily for Brown, with the Swine flu panic, it hasn't been given many headlines and may go unnoticed but unfortunately for him, the whole process has been a disaster from the start.

To watch the Gordon Brown Youtube announcement please click below.

WARNING, video may make young children cry. Do NOT watch whilst eating your dinner. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBXj5l6ShpA&feature=channel_page

There is now a official petition on the Number 10 website for PM Brown to resign. Apparently it's in the tens of thousands.

If you want to sign the petition for Brown to resign then click this link

I recently read the "Spare us the hypocrisy" article from the Daily Mirror journo Kevin Maguire. What can only be described as a job application for communications at 10 Downing Street!

Is this what Kevin and his chums at the Steamboat Pub really talk about? god, i'd hate to be a fly on the wall when they're together having a discussion!

But in all my time of blogging and browsing other online articles, I have never seen such ferocious comments. They would certainly shed a tear in this bloggers eye!

They are really worth a look.

Just noticed the article is not on The Mirror site anymore. Poor Kevin must have had enough of the name calling.