Brown Makes Surprise Visit To Iraq
Chancellor Gordon Brown has made a surprise visit to Iraq and has admitted to the BBC that ‘nobody was more surprised than I was to find myself in this bloody place’. Mr. Brown described suddenly finding himself in the middle of a war zone as ‘a bit of a shock’ but ‘not half as bad as some of the meetings I’ve had with Tony in the last few months’.
According to the Chancellor, he was due to meet Home Secretary John Reid at eleven o’clock this morning when the appointment was moved to a room on the fifth floor of the Home Office building. Speaking from central Baghdad, he explained: ‘I was only supposed to going to a finance meeting but when I went in the room, it was completely dark. At first I thought it might have been some kind of surprise party. I was waiting for the lights to come on and for everybody to leap out shouting “surprise”. Only the next thing I hear was the sound of nails being hammered into wood. It didn’t take me long before I realised I was being nailed into a crate. It must have been one of those mix ups they’re always having over there at the Home Office.’
Meanwhile, a senior member of the Integrations Service could not deny reports that the Chancellor might not be allowed back into the country. They refused to make any comment saying that it was ‘a decision for the Home Office to make.’
