Gordon Brown sends spelled condolence letter to greviving mother - Polidicks

[quote]he Prime Minister addressed the mother of 20 year-old Jamie Janes as "Mrs James" and left some words half-finished in his apparent haste. It later transpired that he also read Mr Janes as "Mr James" when he listed, at Commons question time last month, the 37 members of the armed forces killed in Afghanistan during MPs' summer recess. Jacqui Janes accused Mr Brown of disrespecting the memory of her son. Mr Brown moved to limit the damage by telephoning Mrs Janes to assure her he meant no offence. A Downing Street spokesman said the Prime Minister spent "a great deal of time" writing personal condolence letters and would never knowingly misspell a name. "He has unwillingly, in writing a letter, caused this offence. Of course he is sorry for that," the spokesman said. "As soon as he was told about this he personally contacted the mother to make absolutely clear that he never meant any offence and to underline his deepest sympathy for her, his complete admiration and thanks for the bravery and sacrifice of her son and he said he would do whatever he could to help her at this most difficult of times." He said that Mr Brown was aware he has "somewhat unique" handwriting, but added: "The suggestion that he would have or does write these letters in a way that is anything other than with the dignity of the office he holds is completely inappropriate." The Prime Minister is already facing criticism for failing to bow his head as he laid a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, and four former service chiefs have accused him of not caring about the Armed Forces. Jacqui Janes said Mr Brown's letter was clear evidence of his attitude towards them. "If he cares that little I don't know why he bothered to write at all," she said. Jamie Janes joined the Grenadier Guards shortly after his 16th birthday and was on his second tour of Afghanistan when he was killed by a Taliban bomb on October 5. It is standard for Prime Ministers to write to the families of the fallen, and Mrs Janes received Mr Brown's letter after others from the Royal family, the Defence Secretary and Jamie's regiment. "They were all written from the heart and made me feel Jamie's death was important to them. Then I got Gordon Brown's. I only got through the first four lines before I threw it across the room in disgust," she said. Mr Brown wrote "greatst" for greatest, "condolencs" for condolences, "you" instead of your, and "colleagus" for colleagues. He failed to dot the letter "i", wrote security as securiity and repeated the word "sincere" in two adjacent sentences. "He said, 'I know words can offer little comfort'. When the words are written in such a hurry the letter is littered with more than 20 mistakes, they offer no comfort," Mrs Janes, 47, from Portslade, West Sussex, said. "How low a priority was my son that he could send me that disgraceful, hastily-scrawled insult of a letter? "He finished by asking if there was any way he could help. "One thing he can do is never, ever, send a letter out like that to another dead soldier's family. Type it or get someone to check it. And get the name right." However, Jenny Green, president of the RAF Widows Assocation, said Mr Brown should be applauded for sending such letters. "I think the poor man is trying to do his absolute best and unfortunately, on this one occasion, he got it wrong and upset people," she said. "None of our widows have ever complained about his letters before. Ultimately, he meant well and that's what counts."[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6531310/Gordon-Brown-apologises-to-soldiers-family-over-misspelled-condolence-letter.html[/url] So one of the busiest, most powerful men in England sends an un-drafted, hand written message to a greviving mother. And she throws it back at him? He's the only prime minister in recent years to ever even think about do this. Nothing will bring her son back but he died for his country, and the man that represents said country offers condolences and she publicly embarrasses him? What the fuck! [b]Great a huge typo in the heading. Fucking irony. Hilarious.[/b]

Were you meant to say "Grieving"?

Were you meant to say "Misspelled"?

She should be fucking thankful.

[QUOTE=Hullu V3;18281501]Were you meant to say "Grieving"?[/QUOTE] "Grieving" and "Misspelled"

Grammer nazis are going to roll in.

He's blind in one eye you silly woman. He could have sent you a typed or impersonal one or done nothing at all.

[QUOTE=madmanmad;18281571]Grammer nazis are going to roll in.[/QUOTE] They see me roll in, they editin'

"Mr Brown wrote "greatst" for greatest, "condolencs" for condolences, "you" instead of your, and "colleagus" for colleagues. He failed to dot the letter "i", wrote security as securiity and repeated the word "sincere" in two adjacent sentences" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE CAUSED ME DISRESPECT CUZ HE CANT SPELL GOOD WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA fucking boohoo you stupid cunt

She seems incredibly ungrateful, chances are there's a long list of this typo and it's just been passed on to him. I bet if she got a generic copy pasted letter she'd be up in arms about how Brown doesn't give a fuck and blah blah blah.

Smoooooth.... tl;dr my condlencs

Greviving teammate: Your target: Mrs james.

What a bitch etc.

i think this text is unworthy of my time so i wont read it

[QUOTE=catch33;18281611]"Mr Brown wrote "greatst" for greatest, "condolencs" for condolences, "you" instead of your, and "colleagus" for colleagues. He failed to dot the letter "i", wrote security as securiity and repeated the word "sincere" in two adjacent sentences" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE CAUSED ME DISRESPECT CUZ HE CANT SPELL GOOD WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA fucking boohoo you stupid cunt[/QUOTE] a lot of the time when i'm writing stuff by hand i dont write certain letters by accident because of my handwriting also [quote]He failed to dot the letter "i"[/quote] i never dot my i's

[QUOTE=:smug:;18281521]She should be fucking thankful.[/QUOTE] Yes, let me be thankful that some douchebag gave me an half hearted sorry and didn't put in any effort.

[QUOTE=NotYou3;18281699]a lot of the time when i'm writing stuff by hand i dont write certain letters by accident because of my handwriting also i never dot my i's[/QUOTE] fuckin disrepectful you can help by never writing a post like that to a grieving facepunch ever again

Thread got derailed in the first minute already :v:

leave the mother alone to griefef! cant you understand here grieviving!!!!

[media]http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn18/ElNarez/1242716774411.jpg[/media] Am I right?

She's being quite sensitive, then again, her son died. [quote=notyou3;18281699]a lot of the time when i'm writing stuff by hand i dont write certain letters by accident because of my handwriting also i never dot my i's[/quote] CAN YOU TYPE THAT IN CAPS I CAN'T READ CURSIVE YET.

The fact he took time to actually write the damn thing instead dictating it to someone else is proof enough that he cares. What a bitch.

This was all over the news this morning... Really fucking annoying. If I were him I'd be so pissed at this bitch...

As much as I think he is a crappy PM, I have to side with Brown on this one. At least he is actually sending out hand-written letters of condolences and not the generic "we are sorry for your loss, etc" typed letters. Woman is bitch.

How does she know it was misspelled? You can never be sure with some people's handwriting.

Woman sounds like a bitch.

Ungrateful bitch. The most powerful man in England sends her a personal letter to comfort her, and she refuses it.

She is receiving a hand written letter from the Prime-minister himself, not by his PA or his secretary, not typed - hand written. So theirs spelling errors and the hand-writing isn't great, it is probably quite an embarrassing issue as it is to Gordon Brown if he isn't too good at spelling or writing, but no one is perfect. This is a shitty media stunt to get some publicity clearly, I could understand perhaps if the name was very different, but Janes & James? Easy mistake to make. I actually feel quite sorry for Gordon Brown needing to publicly apologize for this, he has nothing to be sorry for in my mind, she should be thanking him. As much as I admire what the soldiers do and its a job I really don't have the balls to do. They are [b]Soldiers[/b], so I don't understand why there is so much of an outcry because they are being sent to war, its there job. Sure some people may think its unjustified, but if Britain / America were to pull out, what would be the consequences of that?

Who really cares if he forgot to dot an i? It's the thought that counts. At least he wrote a letter.

[QUOTE=Sharpshooter;18306236]if Britain / America were to pull out, what would be the consequences of that?[/QUOTE] Less money being wasted. fewer people dieing (soldiers/civilians), etc. Oh you mean negative consequences? I can't think of any.