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Downing Street website petition asks Gordon Brown to resign | Politics | guardian.co.uk.

Apparently the Downing Street website crashed because so many people were logging on at once to sign the petition calling for the feartie Fifer’s resignation. If only a few tens of thousands are enough to crash it, what would hundreds of thousands do.

Why don’t you tell all your friends and see if we can conduct this interesting experiment? Tell them to click here, please – and not to use a silly name. Shortly the Number 10 dirty operations team will be running stories about how many times “Tony Blair” has signed.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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