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!

[naomi24]

Sherminator, No, you shouldn't, and I'm not saying she's right, but simply that in her situation I imagine it's impossible for her to think rationally. With journalists reminding her of the conditions the troops are working in - lack of equipment etc - and encouraging her to believe that Gordon Brown couldn't be bothered to get the letter right because her son's death means nothing to him, it's not difficult to see how she is being manipulated and why she is so angry.

[anotheoldgit]

I think daffy654's first answer was spot on, and it is a pity that those who disagreed with it, couldn't bring themselves to show enough compassion to enable themselves to try and consider how grieved this poor woman is at the moment.

It is no good blaming her, because she must feel in her mind that she wants to lash out, in her angered grief.

[buildersmate]

Probably true - but then The Scum shouldn't have been so stupid as to try and feed off it.

[rov1200]

If we are to believe that spelling is the issue then Gordon Brown can't spell his own name at the bottom of the letter?

[susiespider]

I know how devastating it is to lose a child as I lost my eldest son in 2007 at the age of 32, though in very different circumstances to this - he died after a very long illness. I received lots of letters after he died and they were such a great comfort to me. It meant that people were thinking of me and sharing my grief. I couldn't tell you if any had spelling mistakes because the last thing on my mind was to check the letters for spelling, and I couldn't have cared less what their writing was like, or what pen they used. What mattered was that people took the trouble to write and that meant so much to me. What a pity that this lady can't put her bitterness to one side and appreciate GB's letter for the thought behind it. Throwing someone's kind act back in their face is a very unpleasant thing to do.

[sherminator]

Fair point Naomi fair point!