Gordon Brown has written a note of condolence to the family of soldier killed in Afghanistan.
It is full of spelling mistakes and other errors including getting the dead mans’ surname wrong.
People have been defending the PM about this…
Lest we forget, the man is all but blind, and the idea that he – even he – would deliberately set out to insult a grieving mother is just stupid. If he really didn’t give a shit, he’d get his secretary to type the letters and then sign them at the bottom, and none of this would ever have been a story in the first place.
but FFS…
I completely agree but it’s a note of condolence not a shopping list. You get these things right not go ‘fuck it that’ll do’.
The arguement that Gordon is nearly blind and that if someone else had written it or he’d knocked it up on a computer means he doesn’t care just doesn’t stand up.
- As Justin says, It’s a letter of condolence, even if your writing is scruffy, you at least get the name correct. Nothing says you don’t care more than getting the name wrong, especially when you’re the prime minister with all those people around that are supposed to help and advise you.
- If Gordons’ eye sight is that bad, why are we expecting him to hand write letters? Did Blunkett get it in the neck every time someone else wrote a letter for him?
What’s worse? A load of unintelligable scrawl or a typed letter with a real signature at the bottom?
At least Gordon doesn’t have rubber stamp to sign with.
I can’t want to enrol in the worthy gentleman’s Correspondence Course.
But your take on this is the same as mine.
It’s being spun as an ‘attack’ on his handwriting or his eyesight, when in fact the outrage is more to do with the lack of care that is evident when something as important as this isn’t even proofread.
I wouldn’t allow my son to send a thank-you letter that had the recipient’s name mis-spelled, much less something as important as this.
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That looks good. Might send a cheque off meself.