PM Brown gives kiss of death to NHS

If you were the NHS, would you want a round of applause from an ailing prime minister, with support from peers and voters diminishing faster than Sarah Harding’s boobs?

No, you bloody well wouldn’t. It’s the kiss of death.

And yet Gordon Brown has decided, in the midst of crashing criticism for pretty much everything he’s ever done, to start praising the work of the doctors who ’saved his sight’.

Speaking to celebrate the NHS’s 60th birthday, GB told the Beeb, that a rugby injury (yes, we had to double-check too, but he really did used to play rugby) had given him a detached retina and left him blind in one eye.

Insert witty Rory Bremner-style gags about short-sightedness, lack of vision etc here. We’re not political enough to bother write them.

Soon after he started to suffer vision problems in the other peeper and was admitted to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

He was “lucky” to have his eyes sorted out by a highly-trained doctor, the day before said doc went on holiday.

He said:

“It turned out to be very successful and it’s held for all these years.

“If somebody had said to me having lost the sight in one eye you would have one operation that would last for effectively 35 years and everything would be OK after 35 years - I wouldn’t have bet on that.”

Luckily Mr Brown is neither a doctor, nor a gambler. Insert political Rory! etc!