Thread: Nob Brown-mis-spelled dead Soldiers name in letter to family

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

At least he had the decency to write it in his own hand.

Agree with you 100% even if he is a mong speller

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

At least he had the decency to write it in his own hand. Not surprised in the least the bus in still on the road though. ARRSE will soon need to hire a train for the hand wringers.

Spot on, more media generated politicing the sun must take the general public for a bunch of c.u.n.t.s

Getting the family surname was a pretty large blunder, fair enough. But red-penning the rest of it is just as pedantic as the rest of the spelling Nazi's on here, who just get the red crayon out when they actually have no suitable counter argument on they have fallen on their arrse.

"The PM is a heartless, disrespectful bastard. He missed a fucking apostrophe here, look"

Far be it for me to defend this government in any way, but I am amazed and delighted that the Prime Minister has taken the time and trouble to write to a relative in his own handwriting.
Whether we agree with Government policy or not, he must be an extremely busy man
My relative ( aged 1 was one of 20,000 killed on the first day of the Somme. I don't recall that LLoyd George wrote condolence letters to their families.
In my opinion, we should say "well done PM"

I think the timing's a bit suspect - Story released now, at least a few weeks after she would have received the letter and over the remebrerence period. Either she was too grief-stricken to complain at the time or shes just received her Xmas bonus early. Total non-story. This story stinks of politics and manipulation.

To fair my handwriting is appalling....

And looking at the note, the spelling mistake in the surname could be just down to a writing style that should be appearing on 'my left foot'.

You can also knock him for spelling and hand writing, but it appears that this was an undrafted, from the man letter....

Would you prefer a letter that had been drafted by a clerk, checked by senior advisers and then merely copied?

One or t'other, you can't have both.

I am off to throw up now, as I have defended gordo.

Fug,I think you'll find that should be pedantry.

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

Fug,I think you'll find that should be pedantry.

I think you'll find there should be a space after that comma. ;)

Originally Posted by chocolate_frog

To fair my handwriting is appalling....

And looking at the note, the spelling mistake in the surname could be just down to a writing style that should be appearing on 'my left foot'.

You can also knock him for spelling and hand writing, but it appears that this was an undrafted, from the man letter....

Would you prefer a letter that had been drafted by a clerk, checked by senior advisers and then merely copied?

One or t'other, you can't have both.

I am off to throw up now, as I have defended gordo.

No but at least he could have got his missus/secretary to double check before sending. Thus saving himself from even more scorn.

I don't like the man, but have to say I'm amazed that he actually spends the time to write individual letters.

Originally Posted by Drlligaf

Perhaps Brown ought to take a lesson from Napoleon. He had all his dispatches checked by a rather incompetant lieutenant. Napoleons reasoning was that if he could understand it, any one could. There are some things where a c0ck up just isn't an option.

So that'll be Ainsworth then!

Just to clear something up: It was not Napoleons lieutenant. It was 'Grants Captain'. General Ulysses S Grant reportedly had a Staff Captain that he used to run his battle plans past. He reckoned that this guy was a bit dense and if he could understand the plan then it was possible that all his Corps commanders could follow it.

BTW Napoleon had one of the finest Chiefs of Staff in Marshall Berthier and, yes, Berthier was sometimes the only one who could read certain words written down by Napoleon. (99% of Napoleons orders were dictated)

As to Brown give the guy a break, it's like shooting fish in bath tub with him.

"I don't like the man, but have to say I'm amazed that he actually spends the time to write individual letters"

I think you may find that Thatcher, Major and Blair all handwrote letters to the families of the fallen, its nothing new.

To put this into context, Mrs Janes has lost her son. Her most cherished memories of him will come in the form of photos and letters. With that in mind, it's understandable that she feels bitter and angry. Having said that, the PM has hand written a letter of condolence to a grieving mother which, errors aside, is bloody nice of him. I don't see why this has become a hand-wringing debate.

He has proven to be a bit of a fvck up as of late, hasn't he.