Gordon Brown's Presbyterian Conscience

When a politician tries to make a virtue out of the fact that he was brought up in a household in which lying was frowned upon then, verily, you know he’s on his uppers. Equally, though I daresay that much of the expenses scandal does offend the remnants of Gordon’s “presbyterian conscience” it’s not immediately clear that asserting his own membership of the Elect is necessarily going to endear the Prime Minister to his twin congregations at Westminster and in the country at large, each of which is manifestly fallen…

Anyway, if Brown’s “presbyterian conscience” really is all he’d like us to think it is and if his bally “moral compass” was really fashioned from the values of the Manse and all the rest of it then one has to say that his actions as Chancellor and Prime Minister have largely confounded, nay betrayed, the very values that Brown claims to hold dear.