I have had a bit of time to reflect on Gordon Brown’s letter snafu to Mrs Janes on the death of her son in Afghanistan. I actually sympathised with Brown on this matter at first as I thought that should get kudos for trying to do the right thing. As Dan Hannan says, he did it in private with – unbelievably for Brown – no thought to political advantage. I have to admit however that since it has panned out, and hearing the same old venomous utterances from our benighted leader during Prime Ministers Question Time my position on this has changed.

Lets be truthful, whilst honestly meant, the letter is symptomatic of Labours lack of interest in the Army - except of course when they want a photo op during the Conservative Party Conference. Labour doesn’t give a flying fornication with double back twist and summersault about the Army. According to Zanu Labour anybody in it, from the Regimental Goat up to the Chief of the General Staff is a rabid Tory who are stealing the welfare checks from Homeless Lesbian Dolphins merely by being in Uniform. The Army are the Right Wing enemy of the one party state that ZNL wishes to create and must be destroyed. I can’t think of a single ZanuLabour MP* that has ever served in the Armed Forces, not even a two week familiarisation visit to the Women’s Auxiliary Balloon Corps. Hardly a bloody surprise as the Army doesn’t specifically recruit Workshy Bolsheviks.

If Brown is too blind to write a letter – then he has my sympathy (Didn’t stop him signing the European constitution Treaty of Lisbon though, I assume he just put a big cross on the page). But isn’t he telling endlessly and constantly telling us that he’s up to the job, getting on with the job, which started in America? Either you can’t do a job because of some reason or other, in which case you should politely step aside, or you can and you manage to write a half decent letter as we would expect from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I can’t carry a tune in a bucket, which is why I don’t go for the job as chief conductor at the London Philharmonic. I haven’t used the media to get the job standing at the front of the Orchestra waving a small stick, and then got upset when the public quite rightly points out the resultant cacophony sounds like a Skeleton having a wank in a biscuit tin.

Lets not forget James Gordon Brown is a bullying dangleberry with Oak Leaves and Clusters to the people whom have the misfortune to work for him. He used the media to usurp his previous leader to get his position of power, and gets all upset when it bites him on the arse. Was the Sun in poor taste using this Soldiers death to attack Brown – of course, but when this first came out Gordon’s first instinct was to use Mandelson to slime the Sun back. And instead of maintaining a dignified silence Mandy’s at it again.

Brown destroyed our economy because it suited him to favour his client state over the good of the whole country, and he enjoyed it too because it appealed to his petty tribal spite. He’s betrayed his country by sending off men to war without anything approaching the correct equipment or manpower which is why he finds himself writing a letter to Mrs Janes in the first place. He’s betrayed Democracy with his grubby EU Constitution manoeuvring, and he’s betrayed the Office of Prime Minister by not standing aside when he clearly wasn’t up to the job, and attacking those who oppose him with Damian McBride slime. I seem to remember he’s from the party that used the death of David Cameron’s son to claim that it was Labour party funding of the NHS that kept him alive. So to whine about a newspaper using deaths for political means is a bit rich to say the least.

Brown is the Black Knight on the Prime Ministerial Bridge threatening to bleed on people. He’s a dilettante that is incapable of writing a simple letter of thanks for a life laid down for his country. It is no dishonour to try and fail, and everybody makes mistakes, the dishonour is to try and cover up failings. Sympathy for his incompetence ends the minute G Brown stays another nanosecond in a job he is morally and intellectually unable to do. The dishonour of the Sun newspaper is a different matter...

*Does Maj (retd) Eric Joyce MP (Lab, Falkirk), Late of the Pay Corps count?