Letter from Boris

I think that we ought to put a full stop to this, for a period

Let’s face it what ever he does it will be unacceptable or wrong for some
The letter was short and to the point
Football shirt over his shirt and tie wouldn’t have expected anything else

It’s fine, a good gesture.

Nothing wrong with the letter.

I think the letter is fine, a bit bullet point-y perhaps but the sentiments are the right ones.

I think its entirely proper for the PM to have gone to the semi final and that he goes to the Final, no question.

Wearing a football shirt over his shirt and tie, not so much. It's part of the dressing up thing. I think he thinks it makes him look like "one of us".

I think the letter is ok, but the 4th sentence should be in 3rd position. It keeps jumping between the team players and the people of the country.

Bluebelle my comment was regarding a previous comment which said Boris was pretending to be a huge football fan. I’m not either but I’m behind England

When Boris was Mayor of London he used to attend football matches. I remember he was asked which team he supported and he replied in that daft, woolly manner, "All the London clubs".
He also played in charity matches, so he isn't totally pretending to be a fan.

Yes we re behind England shelmiss just not behind the hypocritical letter

It’s a great letter. I have no idea about, or general interest in football, but I am completely behind England in this (and I’m half Italian!)

Currently listening to Three Lions blaring out on the radio!

I had to look that phrase up Bluebelle, am not sure how I have managed to miss it.

Some people like every that man does and I do wish people stop referring to him as ‘Boris’ like he’s your best friend or next door neighbour
He and the letter is about as genuine as a Nottingham knocker

He’s got England flags festooned all over Downing Street. Loads of fair weather fans and people who have never been to a football match are supporting England and why not? It’s something to cheer after the long dark tunnel.

The fact is he’s someone pretending to be a huge football fan when I bet he’s never willingly gone to a football match in his life till this one and that’s only because he thinks it will be good for his image.

GrannyGravy13

Short and to the point, cannot see what the fuss is about?

(If Mr.Johnson was to run into a burning building to save a puppy there are those who would complain that he forgot to save the puppy’s favoured toy)

If anyone with an Oxford education were to write such poor English, I’d make the same comment.

Short and to the point, cannot see what the fuss is about?

(If Mr.Johnson was to run into a burning building to save a puppy there are those who would complain that he forgot to save the puppy’s favoured toy)

I like it.

On behalf of the entire nation? He doesn’t necessarily speak for me (well, he does but he doesn’t actually know that) or my Italian neighbour! Perhaps he thinks I can’t write my own letters. No mention of thanking them for donating their winnings to the NHS if they win, either. He probably doesn’t know about that and, if he does he should feel ashamed that they feel the need to do so.

I don't agree that there is too much punctuation, but some of it is wrong!

To my mind there should not have been a comma in the first sentence, but a semi-colon after "the whole country" would have been preferable to the comma there.

A letter of this kind should not contain dashes and commas instead of repeating "and" all the time when listing their accomplishments would have been an advantage. Why "seemed to shine" instead of simply and less demeaningly "shine"?

Whoever wrote it needs to pay attention to punctuation, style and learn to re-write a letter if he or she has forgotten the first sentence, not just add it as a hand-written emendment.

If the hand-written salutation was intended to make the letter look as if it had actually been written by Boris Johnson himself, it doesn't work. Only an entirely hand-written letter would create that impression.

Thank goodness it wasn't hand written. Looking at his writing it would have been illegible. Boris will be hoping for a photoshoot with the trophy in the hopes it will divert our attention from other things.

and I was very, very drunk

He probably thought he needed to keep the wording simple and the sentences short because he was writing to people wot hadn’t had a public school education. And that it would be read on social media by even more people wot hadn’t had a public school education.

"...., and the England Team" was obviously an afterthought.

It’s so all the simple people are able to read it, unlike her maj’s letter which has so much dignity like her maj herself.