Gordon Brown doesn’t deserve this criticism – Telegraph Blogs
You know what I think of Gordon Brown. He has bankrupted and dishonoured our country, destroyed our private pensions, given away our gold reserves, lied to us about Europe. Why Labour MPs insist on sailing into the election with Jonah, not just on board, but commanding the bridge, is utterly beyond me. None the less, he doesn’t deserve criticism he is getting.
On this occasion, Brown was trying to do something decent. He wasn’t posturing, or issuing press releases. He wrote a personal letter of condolence. This is never an easy thing to do: think of the last time you had to write one. And it must be especially hard to write to a stricken mother. Most of us find the thought of losing a child unimaginable. Literally unimaginable. Try to told the idea in your mind, and see how quickly your thoughts skid off its surface. The PM, though, does know how it feels, and was doing his best to offer sympathy to a woman in grief. And – this bears repeating – he was doing so in private, with no thought of political advantage.
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