<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/15036faf-0eaf-4b00-8970-9efb01c02a27/97B9AFC9-BDF5-4AE7-81F3-0E1A4F0B7707/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml" href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spectator.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml"><H1>Lost in the post</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml"><P><IMG width="125" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.spectator.co.uk/article_images/articledir_7074/3537386/1_fullsize.jpg" />The letters that Gordon Brown sent to the victims of McBride's smears sound as clumsy as you'd expect.  Here's the Standard's <A href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23675514-details/Gordon+Brown%27s+black+letter+day/article.do" target="_blank" class="external">report</A>: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml"><EM>"[Brown's] handwritten letters expressing “great regret” to senior Tories smeared by aide Damian McBride were dismissed as insincere and inadequate — and unreadable.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml"><EM>One recipient, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, who was falsely accused of a one-night stand with another MP, complained that she could not make out all the Prime Minister's words because they were scrawled in a thick black marker pen because of his poor eyesight.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3537386/lost-in-the-post.thtml"><EM>Sources close to Mr Cameron said the Tory leader was not satisfied with his letter, which fell short of an apology and also irritated him by describing the suggestion that he might have had a sexual disease as an 'unsubstantiated claim' rather than as a downright lie."</EM></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/97B9AFC9-BDF5-4AE7-81F3-0E1A4F0B7707/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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