Gordon Brown
Originally published at The Thoughts of Chairman P. You can comment here or there.
I don’t actively dislike Gordon Brown, but I’m not a particular fan either. However, I do think he is getting a rather rough ride over his handwritten letter to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Some of the ‘misspellings’ in the letter, shown on the BBC News, look like natural handwriting foibles that crop up in most peoples handwriting.
I find that brown has gone slightly up in my opinion for bothering to write at all, let alone a personal handwritten letter. I wonder if Blair would have done that, or just sent a letter typed by a junior with his squiggle at the bottom.
By all means attack Brown for his screw-ups, but lets have some fairness when he’s making an effort.
To be fair to the mother though, if I had a kid killed over there, I probably wouldn’t be particularly inclined to give him an easy time either.