The week the Fall legend died also saw No 10 slipping up on Burns Night and David Cameron hanging around in DavosTheresa May’s attempt to display solidarity with the Scots by holding a Burns Night dinner at No 10 didn’t get off to the best of starts as the official invitation list contained a number of misspellings. Not only was the chief executive of Standard Life,Keith Skeoch, labelled as Keith Sceogh, or the prime minister’s team didn’t even seem to know the names of three of her own Scottish MPs. Andrew Bowie became Andrew Bowies,David Duguid became David Dugauid and Ross Thomson became Ross Thompson. To make things even worse, No 10 managed to get the names of the Scotch Whisky organization and the Scottish Rugby Union incorrect. whether just one name had been misspelled, or then it could have been written off as mere carelessness. Just one of those unfortunate things. But to have made so many errors in a comparatively small list suggests something rather more planned. Albeit unconsciously so. As any psychologist would be quick to point out,no one makes that many easily avoidable mistakes entirely by accident.
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Source: guardian.co.uk