Downing Street Now On Flickr

Yeah, yeah - you can talk all you want about 'policies' and 'action' and 'intelligent reasoned handling of sensitive issues', but the government sure are a bunch of smart cookies. They know that you don't actually want any of that. They know that what you really, really want to do is rummage around on someone's Flickr account like the up-to-the-second urban hipster you are.

Gordon Brown's people have gone and granted your wish. Yes, Downing Street now has its very own Flickr channel, presumably so the Prime Minister can join the rest of the world in showing off tedious party pictures and zany webcam poses.

Actually, things are a little more sedate than that. Promising that ''photos of special events, overseas trips and other PM activities will be added on a regular basis'', the first set of snapshots on the account feature the Brownster mingling with Nicolas Sarkozy, Arsene Wenger and a frankly terrifying-looking Ronnie Wood. How in Christ's name the latter got by security is anyone's guess - unless M15 are now turning a blind eye to crow-human hybrids.

Still. Westmonster is pleased that these pictures finally have an outlet. After all, it's not as though photographs of meetings between major world leaders ever make it to the newspapers or anything, now, is it?

Written by C J Davies on 31 Mar 2008 10:59 PM. Permalink