LeninGrad - she didn't say that though. She avoided mentioning bereaved mothers at all. Instead she refutes the assertion (that no-one had actually made so far as I can tel) that unless you're a mother you can't comment on storylines about children.
I didn't post on the cot death storyline thread but my understanding of it was that people, specifically bereaved parents, had a problem with the kidnapping element of the storyline rather than the bereavement itself, because it suggested that stealing another baby is something a grieving mother might feasibly do. Eastenders seems to pride itself on its accuracy when portraying difficult (and ratings-grabbing) subject matters, but this wasn't an accurate or fair portrayal of a mother's grief, and that seemed to be what stung - that was clear enough to me from the thread, but in the ensuing media frenzy the point seems to have been lost.
I agree about the biscuits, though. David Mitchell had it right in his interview a couple of weeks ago - Brown should have just said "What sort of question is that? I'm the fucking Prime Minister!" I bet his approval ratings would have trebled overnight.