Nobody noticed. What did you want him to do? Put his hand on the cenotaph and weep?

With popularity of the armed forces increasing its becoming customary for people to ensure their pro forcesness is heard. I got sick of the phony comments yesterday by billy bull sh1tters pretending they were upset and "Had a lump in their throat" at the parade yesterday. Did they fcuk... They were wondering about whether 2 little knobheads were going to win a singing competition whilst at a bit of an event. The only people who will have been upset would have been those in the parade/crowd remembering absent friends/loved ones. Even then we didn't b1tch on about it. We went and emptied the booze out of the pubs for them.

Stop with the I love the dead soldiers more than you do tosh. It's fcuking wet!

P.S whoever started this text message is a fcuking Nonce.

"RIP to all the people in the army who died this year. This message works. Send this to 10 people and watch what happens to your wallpaper."









"No, Fcuk off"

What is going to happen to ARRSE when Brown and Co depart office next year

Current affairs will be limited to 'cat found up tree' stories

Heres a real reason to dislike Gordon Brown.

I've sinced looked at the letter again and compared it with a recent doctors letter. I can actually read Browns and I imagine he has put a lot of thought into it.

However back to it.

Gordon Brown... Pleb!

Give it ten months though and it'll be 'Zanu neu cat found pissing on dead tree - get the 'bus' and let's hang the fucker'!!

You may well be right. Perhaps we should restrict certain forums to those who have demonstrated an ability to operate at the pertinent 'thread level'. Then again, I quite like current affairs

I realise the hated Sun (it's been crawling its way back to the Conservatives and never gives up trying to be the Forces' favourite) has hyped this up. I realise Commisar Broon is disabled but took the time to write to a grieving relative who lost a son.

The problem is he is incredibly flawed and makes the most incredible errors of judgement and presides over years of mistakes.

When history judges this letter, if it ever remembers Brown as more than a lame duck mistake; I doubt it will measure up to this sort of thing:

Letter - Abraham Lincoln (disputed) to Mrs Bixby

The inability to write a letter to a grieving relative, act appropriately at the Cenotaph, manage the economy, preside over a war or control his own party mean he needs to go but we all know he cant see (sic) it...

'mark3536' - dear poster, you have misspelt the fatuous oaf's name. Never mind, I did that for some years.

The facile clown spells his name:


BROWNE

"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming."

What a masterful stroke of the pen.

Strange, I don't recall being the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

I saw a piece this morning on the news
Allegadly when he read the names out during Prime Ministers Questions he used the name James
Nobody picked up on it and the list was given to him from the MoD through some flunkies to him
He probably copied this onto his letter


So he can't spell and his writing not very neat half the mongs at uni can't spell and write but they are the future of the country we are told

IIRC Blairs letter were typed and signed by El Presidente (Elect) at least the bloke has took the time to write and phone the woman to apologise for his mistake

Perhaps if she had contacted him and informed him he would have still corrected it and apologised
People ought to take the Sun and other media of their speed dials every time there is a non story

I'm no fan of him but if he didn't write the letters the non letter outrage bus would getting checked over

And fithed

The engine of the outrage bus is always idling over.

This may seem a regrettable faux-pas, with good intent behind it, but there is so much distrust and unhappiness with this government's military policies that only a little spark is required.

Whether it is the loss of trust over Iraq WMD lies, equipment shortages, claims of going into Afghanistan "without a shot being fired"* or enough helicopters and boots on the ground.

There is simply no trust in this government, and it is not a "communication" issue as "they" like to pretend.

This is why the outrage bus is always waiting. And now Mandelson has weighed in - he of the "chinless wonders" comment regarding the Brigade of Guards - so it is officially a class war issue.

*admittedly taken out of context, but Reid deserves a barrowload of cr@p for even spouting such rubbish.

Hello Mr P, the link doesn't work for me. Could you try again please?

Can't stand Cyclops but this is a non-starter

He's had a lot of them to write recently, even that half wit idiotic Scotsman must find it very, very hard to write them, especially as everyone is hounding him and blaming him for soldier's deaths.

Give the bloke some leeway!!!

The Sun using a grieving Mother to further bash an idiot. How very surprising....

The guy has a disability FFS, He is going blind. So he has mong handwriting and spelling, big fluck...

According to the BBC the Sun has now released a recording off the phone call in which the mother challenges the PM over lack of kit and he would have been alive if there were more helicopters

Isn't it illegal to record phone calls ?

The Sun obviously have an agenda and she is being played by them in my veiw which is more dispicable than a badly written letter

Transcript of phone call here

Taxi for Brown?

Nice of The Sun to exploit a bereaved Mother...

Throbbers.

We can all sympathise with the grief of a mother so soon after her son's death. I hope that she can show the hard evidence that he "bled to death" because of a delay in casevac caused by lack of rotary air. That would be powerful stuff.