WHEN SOMEONE LIKE MYSELF is able to feel sorry for Gordon Brown it means that evil forces are combining to bring him grief. While there is no doubt that there are many things that our Prime Minister, Her Majesty’s Government and the leaders of our armed forces could and should do to avoid more suffering and death in Afghanistan and elsewhere, one should not accuse Brown of being heartless, and certainly not false or cynical.
THE RECENT ROW INVOLVING his handwriting takes political criticism to new lows in the manner it has been exploited by The Sun newspaper. Everyone is deeply sad when a soldier dies on duty, even though it is clear that members of the armed forces know what they are doing. But no one should complain about the attitude taken by our Prime Minister.
IF WE ARE TO CRUCIFY someone based on the quality of their handwriting, then I for one would have been nailed to a particularly large cross years ago, as hardly anyone can understand all of what I write, often including myself. I have often written myself a shopping list for “bread” and "water” and mistaken this for “beer” and “whisky” when I got to the shop.
GORDON BROWN MUST BE one of the very few political leaders who sends a personal, hand-written letter to the families of the bereaved, and those who know him personally tell me that he is very sincere about this. So no one should shake a finger at him. Instead, if we have to accuse him of anything, we should restrict ourselves to the facts: he is incompetent at running the country and inept at leading the government. His writing on paper is a problem for the press, but Gordon should worry about the writing on the wall.
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