Has Mrs Janes lost all credibility now?

[R1Geezer]

Talk about undignified, I reckon the lad would have been cringing! Am I the only one who thinks she's made amountain out of a mole hill? I'm no fan of Brown but I reckon this woman is now comming across as an attention seeking fool. There where errors, yes but is she really saying Brown was doing it deliberately? There have been over 200 deaths and I believe the PM has written to all of them, I have not heard of a comma out of place up to now, could it be that the recipients of those letters accept them for what they are? This woman is trying to turn herself into a celebrity of the back of her son's death. It comes to something when a Tory leaps to the defence of a Labour PM!

[ummmm]

I was thinking the same when I watched it this morning. Shouldn't she be busy grieving and not looking for spelling mistakes...

[deggers316]

yes i posted a text on this subject in chatterbox yesterday and most a answers agreed

[daffy654]

I think the woman is very angry and upset about her son dying and is looking for an outlet for that anger,GB is a convenient target at the moment. You have to remember that she is a grieving woman who has lost her son. Surely we can make allowances for that?

[ummmm]

The last thing I would do if I lost a child is go to the tabloids....

[Sandy-Wroe]

She recorded the telephone the PM made to her. I wonder did The Sun supply the recording equipment?

[Sandy-Wroe]

*telephone call

[ummmm]

I wonder how much she is being paid....

[daffy654]

To be fair though ummmm,if you have never lost a child how do you know how you would react?
I agree that GB making a few spelling mistakes is not important but i'm inclined to cut the grieving mum a bit of slack with this.
Maybe i'm less annoyed by her because I haven't seen her on TV as I don't watch it often.

[Bbbananas]

I agree - after watching her on the tv last night, I think she should turn her attention to grieving, not being petty.

[ummmm]

I know how I reacted when I lost my Dad so I can safely presume that losing a child would be a lot worse.

[Gromit]

Her real problem is not errors on a letter, but losing her son. She is lashing out at anybody she blames for his death. She must have been aware of the possibility that this would happen, but now it has, she feels great anger. She has lost it, but surely that is understandable and we should make allowances for her present state of mind.

[Bbbananas]

Very well put Gromit - she cannot possibly in her usual right state of mind. And I would imagine that certain sections of the media are encouraging her, or putting words in her mouth?

[Sandy-Wroe]

I agree with Gromit. But she seems to have aligned herself with The Sun and they have their own agenda.

[R1Geezer]

Fair enough Gromit, but why go to the Sun, record the call, then presumably give the tape to the Sun, it all stinks a bit to me. What about all the other greiving families? They don't feel the need to carry on like this.

[deggers316]

maybe the man in charge of the country who ever its is at the time of war should have a standard type written letter of "grief" to post to relatives of soldiers killed in action with a space left to insert "a name" by his PA then just signed by the priminister of the time.
don't think the queen writes letters by hand to the public,
btw Gordon Brown of course is not heartbroken by a soldiers death, ARE YOU? not were angered but not heartbroken by someone you never knew,

[Ankou]

no disrespect to the departed, but does anyone else think that calling your son james jaynes is just asking for simple spelling mistakes ?

[deggers316]

yes very odd bet the poor guy got some stick about it

[ludwig]

Geezer, not an attention seeking fool. A grieving mother looking for someone to blame, being manipulated by unscrupulous journalists.

[Sqad]

She will not let this rest.......she will milk it to the end.

Why should a Prime Minister write a hand written note of condolences?

Prime Ministers Question Time always starts with the reading of condolences to those that have died in that week.........echoed by Cameron and Clegg. Waste of Parliamentary time and unnecessary.
This didn't happen with Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churchill.

Fathers, sons, love ones die in war.....always have been and always will and that is the ultimate sacrifice that one may have to pay in joining the Armed Forces.

GB....stop this writing nonsense and get on with running the country.

Mrs Janes....you have lost a son in war....be proud of him and grieve in private.

[deggers316]

agreed squad