New Disabled Prime Minister for the UK

Gordon Brown finally gets the top job in Westminster.

He is visually-impaired and his son has cystic fibrosis.

A rugby player, Brown became partially-sighted at the age of 16 after he was kicked in the head during a match. He had three operations to try and save the vision in his left eye, and would later recall in an interview in The Guardian: “After each operation I’d have to lie in darkness for three maybe four weeks at a time.”

A university friend told Channel 4 News: “His time in hospital – I think it made him more reflective, maybe made him more impatient as well.\"
Brown himself would tell The Guardian: “One door closes, you can't play rugby any more, so you concentrate on other things.”

Will Gordon Brown make a good prime minister?

Hope he does

'Brown became partially-sighted at the age of 16'

Lets hope he can see things clearer than the last PM <br><br>Post edited by: Able_Here_Team, at: 2007/07/18 18:26