Gordon Brown - Out of Order

[Uncle Spielberg]

The " big " news story of today is Gordon Brown making some spelling mistakes in a personal hand written letter to the Mother of a casualty of Afghanistan.

The bashing of Brown for this and the front page headling in the Sun is victimisation as its worst.

Brown also has poor eyesight and the fact he took time out to write a personal letter is to be commended.

The accusation that he somehow deliberately would write a letter mis spelling the Man's name is ridiculous and offensive.

The Mother has scored an own goal with this and make you wonder what her motives are or if the Sun paid for her " story ".

A sad day and a new low for British Jouirnalism.

BBC NEWS | Politics | PM apologises over soldier letter

 

[The Wizard]

Completely agree, I read this story this morning and thought it was a complete load of shit, its in the sun though so no surprise.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Bloody shameful, Gordon Brown | The Sun |News|Campaigns|Our Boys

 

[Brixtaan]

Yet more proof of what a despicable toe-rag he is.Labour never again

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I am not a Brown fan but the circus today over this letter is a disgraceful sleight and insult to his character imo.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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It seems, possibly, that the MOD got it wrong in the first place and Brown has been led astray by that. No surprise that The Sun have picked up on this.

 

[Eddie Bee]

I do not see why he needs to apologise over the said letter!?

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

He doesn't help himself, does he?

 

[Eddie Bee]

oh, and I forgot, and as we know the sun said Southgate is being lined up for the Brighton job!

 

[Zebedee]

The likelihood is that Gordon Brown handwrote the letter from a version that had been typed up by his officials. I know this from my day to day job. In all probability, a civil servant was to blame but the PM could hardly say as much since he would then be accused of trying to shift the blame. Who would be a politician?

 

[franks brother]

I feel sorry for this woman because she's being used by The Sun newspaper. To go after Gordon Brown is fine, that's politics, but they're using this grief-stricken woman to get at him.

It's all rather distasteful.

 

[DerbyGull]

Brown always being made a scapegoat (and for Blairs mess too).

Roll on the Cameron bashing in the coming years

 

[Billy the Fish]

I do feel a bit sorry for Brown over this one. At least he's making the effort to hand write a letter, I'm sure he could just get a laccy to print off a few letters for him to sign.

I'm not quite sure why that silly bint feels the need to go public. Next time she needs medical treatment is she going to start complaining to the doctor for having crap handwriting?

 

[derbyseagull]

totally agree, if he had just quickly signed a pre written typed letter, he would have been attacked for that.

What even you think about Gordon Brown, he should be given some credit for taking the time to hand write a letter. As someone said, this poor mother who has lost her brave son has been used by the Sun, who moved to the gutter then went lower.

 

[Don Quixote]

Its extremely hard to write with one eye. Try it yourself! The Sun are just stupid with this story.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

The likelihood is that Gordon Brown handwrote the letter from a version that had been typed up by his officials. I know this from my day to day job. In all probability, a civil servant was to blame but the PM could hardly say as much since he would then be accused of trying to shift the blame. Who would be a politician?

Behave Zebs - you know as well as I do that his outer office staff would have checked it and written the envelope for him at the very least. If he has poor eyesight then they would have typed it out in about 24pt font to account for that as well! If the outer office are at fault for this, then they are the ones that should be strung out. It doesn't take much to pull up a service record from the Army Office to check the details are right...


And yes, civilian life is agreeing with me A LOT. Even though I am lecturing on a Uniformed Public Service BTEC, so I've kind of come back full circle! Are you still in the crumbling edifice with the ghosts or have you been allowed to move into one of the new towers of power?

 

[algie]

I do feel a bit sorry for Brown over this one. At least he's making the effort to hand write a letter, I'm sure he could just get a laccy to print off a few letters for him to sign.

I'm not quite sure why that silly bint feels the need to go public. Next time she needs medical treatment is she going to start complaining to the doctor for having crap handwriting?

I'm with you on that.First time i will defend Brown

 

[coventrygull]

I think Brown and Labour have done worse

 

[The Wizard]

I think Brown and Labour have done worse

Yeah, because the BNP are much better......

 

[coventrygull]

Yeah, because the BNP are much better......

Much much better and Nicks only got one eye