Ok, here's what happened. In the Sun today, the front page story was about Gordon Brown spelling the name of a British soldier who died wrong. The story was a scathing attack on the Primeminister, who made several mistakes in a hand written letter to the mother of the deceased soldier.
Now I know that making mistakes in a personal letter isn't particularly nice, but I think attacking him on it is out of bounds. For those of you that don't know much about Gordon Brown, he is technically blind. He has one glass eye and limited vision in the other, I bet to him writing a handwritten letter neatly is a real struggle. I say cut him some slack on that basis alone.
But I want to go further than that. A handwritten letter from the Primeminister is a nice gesture, he is one of the busiest men in the world. It would be very easy for him to give a pre-written "Dear John letter" from a computer, get an assistant to write it, or not even send one at all. But no, he sent a personal letter himself.
I think that it is a touching sentiment that a blind, extremely busy person took the time out to write a personal letter of condolence. I certainly don't think it is right to use this as a scathing attack against him.
The next thing that I think is bad is that the mother sold this to the Newspaper. Don't get me wrong I am very sorry for her loss and losing a child is always very hard. She has my deepest condolences. But I do think that it is wrong to sell the letter to a newspaper.
Anyway, that's my two cents, I just needed to get that off my chest. Rage over.
What do you think?
The letter can be seen in the link at the top. I can't paste it I'm afraid.
