While I do not think highly of Mr Brown, everyone is on his case at this time.
With ref to the letter in his defence, that while the spelling was poor he did at least put pen to paper personally and not have a P.A. bash out a few meaningless words on a pc.
Also some may have noticed he does have quite a bit on his plate like running a country.

I can't believe the stupidity of Sky news to even broadcast such a unimportant event. I think mothers should shut up. It is not a blunder. The soldier was employed. If he didn't agree with the conditions, then he should have left the army. He wasn't the first to die.

I think this Mother needs to realise that her son chose to join the Army and stop blaming Gordon Brown for everything. He has awful handwriting, big deal. He unlike many world leaders out there hand writes his own letters!

I feel great sadness that another mother has lost her child and my sympathy goes out to them. On the letter mr brown sent the family, yes he clearly has issues with spelling and getting the surname wrong I can agree with (that should have been right) as I know with my surname most people get it wrong even when you spell it to them. I do not think mr brown would intentionally send out a letter if he knowingly knew there were errors in it as he wouldn't intentionally want to offend. Give him a break he has rung in person to appologise he could have just left it.

A mother loses her son and needs someone to blame. That person is not Mr Brown but the evil terrorists we are fighting. Her son chose the career he did, no one forced him, he knew the dangers he faced everyday in other countries and even in their own barracks, just look what happened in american. Mr Brown took the time and effort to write to her and this whole thing is petty and uncalled for. Sky News and the papers should not be making a big deal out of it. As for equipment, they are well equiped but if Mr Brown decided to spend billions giving out the cutting edge equipment he would be blasted for wasting public money. Just look whats happening with Trident.

i dont usually comment on things but i find it very upsetting that mrs janes would use her grieving time to put our country`s already under pressure government into more turmoil, and taping a conversation with your prime minister without his knowledge or consent is making her look like she had a different agenda. i feel for every families loss during this conflict, it`s time to be a country united and stop using the death of our troops for politics....

Come on people!! What is going on here?! The PM decides to take time out of his very busy schedule to write a condolence letter and everyone starts picking holes!!! The man does not know how to spell, big deal! What’s important is the spirit of the letter, the thought behind the letter.
My condolence to all mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands and children who have lost loved ones but in this case, I don't think this mother is really grieving. If she was, then she won't have time to notice that the PM made grammatical errors. heck! If the Nigerian President wrote & sent a letter, the world must be at an end.
It’s good to have a country where everyone can be held accountable but I think it’s being overdone in the UK. At every given opportunity you put the PM down. This person is only human like you and I. There are more important issues to discuss & find lasting solutions to than worrying about grammatical errors.
And the Sun newspaper, how very low. That’s why it will always remain a TABLOID paper!

Clearly you lot have never had dealings with the military or the military life. Yes he signed up but it's still a shock and it's the last thing you want to happen

It's bad enough if someone was to get your name wrong while chatting to you, let alone your dead child. That's just inconsiderate and disrespectful. He's the Prime Minister for God's sake! A well educated man... Apparantly! Surely he must have at least one advisor or kiss a**e politician there to proof read it first if his eyesight and spelling are that bad! And it wasn't the first time, was it? He even got it wrong in the House of Commons!

Unbelievable! Gordon Brown makes me sick.

xXx

to mr brown. most of us are behind you as you are still the countries political leader. it`s a time of great fear, and i wish us all the best in this uncertain future. i dont sir agree with war, but at least we stand up and defend the helpless, lest we forget the sacrifices of our young men and women, for freedom.

I understand her grief as a mum myself and also having a brother in law who is in the army, but this is getting out of hand, these are now personal attacks on Gordon Brown, I think people are just jumping on the band wagon and kicking a man whilst he is down, he didn't mean any disrespect-yes it was naive but not malicious, remember Gordon Brown has himself lost a child and knows better than anyone the pain. As a relative of a serving soldier I am sick of negative negative reports yes there are issues with kit etc but these boys CHOOSE to fight for their country and just get on with their job and i would rather people concentrated on suporting them and making them feel like they are doing a good thing in Afghanistan this is not good for their moral, we cannot just pull out of this war now it wouldn't be fair on the afghan people who didn't ask for this and it would also mean our
boys have died in vain.

I have lost a family member not soo long ago in afghan and i have got to say this letter has been blown out of proportion, he cant spell well neither can the best of us at times, he took the time, he thought about the family, he paid his respects not cause he had to but because he wanted to... gordon brown is getting alot of stick here and its wrong

Boycott the Sun! I'm with Brown.

How can anyone throw their support behind a man so ignorant that as leader of a country he cant even write correctly. Why didn't he dictate it and have someone type it up for him?.Or would that have shown up the discrepensies in House of Commons staff too?

In answer to Ms Davis,yes it wouold appear that an 11 year old could make a better fist of running our econmy than the said PM

I can't believe people are saying "at least he took time out of his busy schedule". Of course he should. Writing such letters is THE most important task he has as PM. It's the very least he should do that it is free from errors and written neatly. My husband only has one eye and can write perfectly neatly so that excuse is rubbish.

Leave Mr Brown alone at least he wrote the letter himself so what if he made a few spelling mistakes and his hand writing is untidy , he took time out to write a hand written letter why make a issue out of it sadly your son has died along with many others,think about that and not a letter that had spelling mistakes

The sympathy I felt for this womans loss is surely waning with her behaviour and personal vendetta against the pm. As for the sun newspaper I will be cancelling my delivery of this witchhunting rag

Hmm - if I had bad hand writing and bad eye sight I wouldn't have written a letter. I would have phoned each family or met them together. I sure as hell wouldn't waste time writing a letter - as a leader if you lead people into combat there is a good chance some will die.

I am not a supporter of Mr brown,however, I feel this incidend has been blown out of all proportion. "Janes" is an unusual surname (no disrespect) and must have been mispelt dozens of times in Mrs Janes lifetime. My name, "Carrie" has often been "Currie" or whatever over the years. Mrs James should be grateful this sad incident didn't occur during world war 11. Tens of thousands of perents received the briefest typewritten note from some minor department in Whitehall stating "sorry to inform you" etc. My Aunt received such a letter in October 1940 briefly stating that her son (a spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britian, had died in a "Flying accident" He had, in fact been shot down by an ME109. She wasn't even notified of where or when any funeral would take place!! I think Mr Brown should be given an apology from Mrs Janes for the dreadful media coverage she initiated. He certainly didn't mean to cause any offence or further grief. I was amazed the hear that he even wrote personally (handwritten) to any service family at the time of their liss. Well done to him.

I too lost a son aged 23, and understand her loss, but I must say I am dismayed that she has made it so public and involved the press. I personally was too engrossed in the loss of my son I didn't know what day of the week it was. I just don't understand this mothers reaction to the PMs letter. He took the time out write to her, that says it all ,who the hell cares about the errors with the spelling. He's running the country yet he made an effort to offer condolences and has been slapped down by her and the media THE SUN