However let's not kid ourselves. The coincidence with the anniversary of Steve Thoburns death would explain why Neil Herron took it badly, though I'm sure the sender didn't deliberately time it that way, probaby not even aware of it. The fact that the sender turned out to be an EU employee must have been an absolute gift to NH. His views of the EU are well known, he was at one point an MEP candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) who vow to get Britain out of it.
We can all sympathise with Mr Herron's sense of loss given that Mr Thoburn was a personal friend, but it hasn't stopped him making as much poitical capital as he can from this. He escalated it to cause as much embarassment as possible to the EU Commission and made no allowance for the fact that Mr Jones was acting entirely in a private capacity.
Neil Herron has made his point and if I were to "put myself in his shoes" I wouldn't push it any further.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: [USMA:32681] Re: Brussels e-mail calls Metric Martyrs 'Luddites'
1) He was completely rude in his email - which is hardly a good way of advocating metric.
2) The timing of the email was quite sensitive, being on the anniversary of his friend's (a 'metric martyr') death.
3) His English is atrocious - considering he's meant to be an English-speaking translator!
From: Michael-O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [USMA:32679] Re: Brussels e-mail calls Metric Martyrs 'Luddites'
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:12:06 +0200
Stephen Humphreys wrote:I fear you have totally missed the point.
probably, I read it briefly!
enlighten me then.
thx
Mike
