It does not go with the ideals of the
son of the manse currently running Britain.
All in at Dunstall; EIGHTY+ Another week older and deeper in debt
He repeatedly stresses he is a
son of the Manse - presumably therefore he believes cleanliness is next to godliness and is committed to the 'deep cleaning' of hospitals - involving the temporary closure of wards.
Letter: Making things worse; NHS
But there's a lot about our Prime Minister-to-be that belies his image as the dour, forbidding "
son of the manse" with few interests outside politics.
My little brother Gord By JOHN BROWN; EXCLUSIVE THE MAKING OF GORDON BROWN PM He swapped his prize stamp collection for a record player & saved up for Elvis singles Dad sent him for classical piano lessons but he ended up bashing out Beatles hits Football-mad Gord sold match programmes so he could get in to Raith Rovers games for free
GORDON Brown strategists know full well that if Blair falls on his sword at the Labour Party Conference then the
son of the manse will succeed to the Premiership.
Letter: Your Say - Battle for PM
The upright, dour
son of the manse given a bloody nose in his own backyard by a party plagued by booze and sex scandals.
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The
son of the manse spoke movingly of his mother and father's lessons - that he should do his best, work hard, respect others, treat them equally, tell the truth, take responsibility.
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Beaverbrook liked to insist on his being a Scots
son of the manse. His father was a pious, quiet, highly respectable Presbyterian minister in New Brunswick.
Beaverbrook, A Life
For a start, he was the
son of the manse, the eldest son of a Conregationalist minister born in Brynaman on the border between Carmarthenshire and the old Glamorgan, when Brynaman was a coal-mining village, and where the Welsh language was - and still is to a large extent - the lingua franca.
Brother pays tribute to larger-than-life character actor who 'loved Wales and loved life, and who filled both to the brim' Born in a small coal mining village he became one of Wales' most recognisable faces before passing away this week. Here, Huw Ceredig's brother Dafydd Iwan remembers a remarkable man
Maybe it was his upbringing as a
son of the manse, seeing at first hand extreme poverty as he followed his father on church rounds.
Gordon deserves credit for honouring our true local heroes
Much was made of his refusal to give a straight answer, but I suspect that the reason was that, for a puritanical
Son of the Manse like Gordon, the question was simply irrelevant.
Brown digging in for the long haul
And he grew up a
son of the manse, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where they see all sorts of fantasies after a night on the toon.
Gord's vision is a sight for sore eyes
It's annoying enough to see the
Son of the Manse toying with the Tories and the rest of the UK with the "will he, won't he" childishness about a possible election.
Childish Brown's stunt is a turn-off
With a
son of the manse ruling us from Downing Street, the likelihood of the government sponsoring old peoples' admission to places where we can dream - like a racecourse, dog-track or casino - is remote.
The best 25 minutes I've had in a long time; EIGHTY+ Another week older and deeper in debt
The
son of the manse has said little about the war and is now positioning himself to appeal to middle Britain by talking about a new drive to get one million more families owning their homes.
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What must have been going on in the head of this driven
son of the manse as he contemplated the future?
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