Slow news day? Woman calls a letter from the PM an "insult"

[GommeInc]

She said that?! Then it's settled then, she's just one of these miserable people who hate, beyond anything else, her name being mis-spelt and she has some sort of pure hatred against the name James, which is proven to be more common than Janes. She's an anti-fact woman, clearly

[Ardemax]

as if there's nothing better to complain about

[-:Undertaker:-]

Oh well, if he can't write the letters maybe he or Tony Blair should of had the courage to at least once, go to the view the coffins coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

[FlyingJesus]

Come off it Dan even you have to admit that hand writing the letters is a really nice touch when he could quite easily order a standardised printoff with [fill in name here]

[Hecktix]

I think she's rudely taking the piss.

Yes it's proven Gordon Brown has issues with eyesight however can anyone else not see that some of the spelling mistakes could have just come from the handwriting?



I personally think "greatest" is spelt correctly, but his handwriting tends to just merge certain letters together. You can certainly tell the difference from "your" and you", "security" evidently spelled correctly too.
As many have already said, for the Prime Minister to send a HAND WRITTEN letter to someone it's quite an honour as he's a very busy man. I purely think it's just his handwriting that has caused the issue.

I agree that it is quite bad that he mispelt the name, however he can only see out of one eye, maybe he saw the data he had as saying James?

I think this is outrageous, and all my support goes to Gordon and I think that sending a handwritten letter is very respectful. Keep it up Gordo!

[-:Undertaker:-]

Come off it Dan even you have to admit that hand writing the letters is a really nice touch when he could quite easily order a standardised printoff with [fill in name here]

They should not be in Iraq or Afghanistan, so while the letter is not his fault at all, the death of that womans son lays at the feet of the Bush Administration and the Blair-Brown government who lied to parliament and sent our men and women into a warzone (unequipped) and to fight for what?

[Ardemax]

They should not be in Iraq or Afghanistan, so while the letter is not his fault at all, the death of that womans son lays at the feet of the Bush Administration and the Blair-Brown government who lied to parliament and sent our men and women into a warzone (unequipped) and to fight for what?

we're not on about whether we should be in afghanistan or not

we're on about the rudeness of this woman

[StefanWolves]

Imagine your son had just died in a war that we shouldn't even be fighting, and then the PM of the country sends you a letter looking like that? terrible handwriting, pathetic spelling, 5cm spaces between words and saying that you're son is 'ONLY ONE OF 220'? how would that make YOU feel? I mean come on, my 5 year old brother could write better than that - and to a women who has just lost her son to a NON-WORTHY cause, it is DISGUSTING.

To all you people saying 'this woman is pathetic, she should be grateful' just shut up, just shut up, just do it now. That's a pathetic excuse of a comment, she has just lost her son, how do you think she'd feel reading that pile of crap?

She has EVERYTHING to complain about, if he has bad eye site and whatnot then he should have got someone else to write it. Bad eye sight or not - I'm sure he has glasses? then is no excuse for such a pathetic insult.

Some of you people commenting in here saying 'whats she complaining about!!!' should be disgusted with yourselves. It's people like you who are driving this country down even deeper into darkness.

[Jordy]

Imagine your son had just died in a war that we shouldn't even be fighting, and then the PM of the country sends you a letter looking like that? terrible handwriting, pathetic spelling, 5cm spaces between words and saying that you're son is 'ONLY ONE OF 220'? how would that make YOU feel? I mean come on, my 5 year old brother could write better than that - and to a women who has just lost her son to a NON-WORTHY cause, it is DISGUSTING.

To all you people saying 'this woman is pathetic, she should be grateful' just shut up, just shut up, just do it now. That's a pathetic excuse of a comment, she has just lost her son, how do you think she'd feel reading that pile of crap?

She has EVERYTHING to complain about, if he has bad eye site and whatnot then he should have got someone else to write it. Bad eye sight or not - I'm sure he has glasses? then is no excuse for such a pathetic insult.

Some of you people commenting in here saying 'whats she complaining about!!!' should be disgusted with yourselves. It's people like you who are driving this country down even deeper into darkness.

What use is it someone else writing it? It shows Gordon Brown has spent his time hearing about this individual case (and all of the deaths in Afghanistan it would seem) and personally writing a letter to her. He is the prime minister and he's had the time to do that, it also shows how grateful and caring he is. The letter was not out to offend anyone at all, he clearly had good intensions and if you think he wrote the letter to take the piss out of her then you can be the first member added to my ignore list (I'm sure others will agree with me there).

Like others in this thread, I was also disgusted by this news. Not only that the media have milked for all it's worth (It's the BBC Headline for god sake!). I think she's embarrassed herself and her son, just to have a poke at Gordon Brown and earn a nice bit of money. It's the ridiculous media and idiots like her which is the reason 'The countries going down the pan', not us lot.

[StefanWolves]

What use is it someone else writing it? It shows Gordon Brown has spent his time hearing about this individual case (and all of the deaths in Afghanistan it would seem) and personally writing a letter to her. He is the prime minister and he's had the time to do that, it also shows how grateful and caring he is.

What use it it someone else writing it? I'll tell you - a well stuctured and well worded letter, the poor women is not going to know the difference between Brown writing it or someone else sitting next to him handwriting what he is saying? it's just common sense - if he isn't up to writing it, then get someone else to write what you are saying, it really isn't rocket science.

The letter was not out to offend anyone at all, he clearly had good intensions and if you think he wrote the letter to take the piss out of her then you can be the first member added to my ignore list (I'm sure others will agree with me there).

That's not the point at all - yes he had good intentions, but his execution was lazy. Of course he didn't write the letter to take the piss, now you are just getting the wrong end of the stick. Go on, add me to it, I really couldn't care, Just put yourself in her situation, I'm sure you'd feel very disrespected.

Like others in this thread, I was also disgusted by this news. Not only that the media have milked for all it's worth (It's the BBC Headline for god sake!). I think she's embarrassed herself and her son, just to have a poke at Gordon Brown and earn a nice bit of money.

I understand where people are coming from, but come on. Put yourself in that ladies position, you'd be absolutely mortified and disrespected if someone spelled your sons name wrong, and wrote a letter that looks more like he tried to write it with his toes.

It isn't like this is a 'special case', he writes to all the families who have lost soldiers. I'm sure all the others have been fine, but on this one it just looks like he hasn't been bothered at all, and looks like he wrote it within two minutes to just get it out the way. I know I certainly wouldn't like it if MY SON DIED, would you?

Jordy, I'm sorry if you don't like me giving my opinion, I'm sure I'll feel very comfy in your ignore list.