I have been alerted by the indefatigable shadow housing minister, Grant Shapps, that it is no longer possible to email your thoughts to the Prime Minister, as I'm sure many of you would very much like to do.
Brown, like Blair before him, has never had a publicly available email address, but a contact form has always been on the Downing Street website which anyone could fill in to enable a message to be conveyed to the PM.
But the form has now been taken down - it now links to an error message - and the website has the following to say about the email facility:
Could it be that Downing Street has decided to crack down on "avoidable contact"? It was recently defined by the Cabinet Office, and there is indeed a government policy of aiming to reduce public communication, particularly in cases where Ministers deem the contact "adds no value to the outcome".
Says Grant:
"Gordon Brown is increasingly adopting a bunker mentality and appears to have concluded that he can hide from the public by removing his email address and Contact Form from the No10 website. We now see what this tired old government means when Ministers talk about 'avoiding contact which adds no value to the outcome'. In other words, Brown would rather not hear what the country really has to say about him."
I wonder whether the facility broke down through overuse by angry voters letting the Prime Minister know what they thought of him...