Along with almost 1.8 million of my fellow UK citizens, I signed the petition protesting about pay-per-mile congestion charging for reasons I won't dwell on here. Every man jack and jill of us allegedly got a reply from him on Wednesday. I felt a bit miffed that I was left out: till I checked in the Junk folder in Outlook - and there it was. I had to smirk, I must say!

The other interesting things about the email were that it was coherent (even if I didn't agree with some of the content), not full of typos like many official documents I rant about, and read as if it had been written by a real person. So, my respect for that.

You can read more about the petition on the 10 Downing Street web site.