Does Gordon Brown give a stuff about our troops?

[TimberWolf]

Give the guy a break. He is obviously a retard. Either that or a very good actor, like Benny from Crossroads.

[Doggy Styles]

Give the guy a break. He is obviously a retard. Either that or a very good actor, like Benny from Crossroads.

Or John Mills in Ryan's Daughter.

[AtW]

Regardless of the letter, Brown seems like a rabbit caught in the headlights with this war. I don't think he knows what to do, and has sort of ignored it hoping it would go away.

War? That gives him no problems, it's the collapsing economy build on debt that really got him.

[TheFaQQer]

If I write a handwritten letter to my daughter's school explaining why she's been off sick, I make sure it's neat. If he's writing to someone who's lost a loved one, the least he can do is make sure it's neat, and that he spells the surname correctly. FFS!

Your handwriting is obviously neat, then. Gordon Brown's handwriting is not neat - this has been shown in any number of documents, letters and notes that he has written. There is nothing in this letter which indicates that he rushed it - only that he wrote it by hand.

And, to be honest, I can't really see anything where he got it wrong in the letter - quite often my wife can't tell whether I have written an 'n' or an 'm' in my writing, yet that doesn't mean that the shopping list I am writing has been written in a rush or without thought, it's just that she can't read my writing.

Perhaps he should have torn up the letter and started again when he corrected his mistake with the first name, rather than correcting it. Perhaps he should have a bottle of Tippex handy. If the only thing I had to worry about was whether the prime minister wrote neatly or not, then I'd be in a much happier place than I am now.

[EternalOptimist]

it was ever thus

the day the tigers broke free


And kind old King George
Sent Mother a note
When he heard that father was gone.
It was, I recall,
In the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp.

[BrilloPad]

He would care if he thought he would win an extra vote or two.

[Diestl]

She should be glad, some familes got a text

Soz about son in war,
l8trz

GB

[minestrone]

Some people just cannot write well and sadly I am one of them, no amount of care and time could make my writing neat. In fact at school they never tried to teach me joined up writing 'cos of my dyslexia so I can only write very badly in block capitals.

Embarrassing yes, but that is just the way it is, it is pretty pathetic this was the main news story today.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

He cares as much as any PM does/did.

[original PM]

I imagine he does care - seriosuly he is the PM.

On the other hand the guys who are out there fighting are doing the job they signed up to do.

Nobody ever has enough equipment etc - I mean ffs what should we do give everyone a tank?

I do feel for the troops out on the front line doing their job and the families back home worrying about them and wish them the best though.