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Why is he getting so much stick for this? The letter was heartfelt and he took the time to write it personally. He only has one eye and that appears to be giving him problems at the moment so is it any wonder his handwriting his poor? Is the quality of his handwriting really that important? As for the mistake with the name, it's unfortunate but an honest one. How do we know the advisor who provided him with the details of this soldier's tragic death didn't spell the name wrong?
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He was set up by the sun and walked right into it.

Private eye showed cameron did some pretty dodgy deals with murdoch that brown wouldn't submit to, this is his commeuppance.

Murdoch is a horribly poisonous influence upon the politics if this country. I'm not a big fan of Brown either (though anythings better than Blair) but these seems a harsh and underhand and utterly tasteless ruse by the Sun.

He's blind in one eye and the other ones not too clever...if anyone else had written that letter it would be seen as a touching gesture. Can't say I'm a big fan myself but he didn't have to bother. Also a typed letter would be seen as too impersonal, so he can't win!
Also not a big GB fan but can't help thinking that this mother had done far more to insult her son's name by this than an unfortunate spelling mistake. I also wonder if she has made any money from it. Tabloids have their agenda and they will stoop to almost anything to achieve its aims.

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Having said that, he's the one sending the boys

> and girls out there (to their deaths).

> Let's not forget that.



Mates of mine over there love it! Just thought it was important to balance this argument out. Not every soldier is desparate to come home, only the ones in the press!

Is it true the Mother had a call from GB to discuss this and that she recorded the call on her Blackberry? (and he said sorry about 10 times during the call but she said this was not an apology)


She was obviously intending to / hoping to get him into further bother.


But then again she has lost her son and who are we to judge what she thinks fit and proper to do.

what the OP said.


The Sun should sort themselves out; it is not a story and that poor woman should be left to grieve without the machiavellian political machinations of the tabloid press. GB is only ok but I don't think he's done anything wrong other than not spell check effectively. end of.


edited for spelling - oh the irony!

Mind you, people do sign up it's true, but GB as chancellor is very much responsible for making them do it on a shoestring withou the equipment they need to do it right and with the highest margins of safety you can expect.

In a very real way he is personally responsible for many deaths, but balancing a nations books is a very different crime to sending our soldiers on pointless military adventures in the first place. TBs concsciemce should weigh much heavier than GBs.

I actually feel genuinely sorry for him, what he has tried to do without making a public fuss about it is a thoughtful and decent thing and it seems the media and most of the country are taking the piss out of him when he simply did not have to do it. The man is verging on blind for Gods sake and he knows the utter pain and devastation that comes from losing a child, so writing a letter to another parent for the loss of their child through his decisions must be very hard.


He has certainly gone up in my estimations and as for the mother recording the conversation and giving it to the Sun, i find that a bit low really.

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