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The Gentleman's Agreement

  I just finished watching a documentary on BBC titled "Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution". This documentary levels us on the relationship between the two of the most outstanding personalities that have ever influenced the Labour Party since it started about one hundred years ago. Gordon Brown has Labour in his blood, his father was a minister in the Church of Scotland, and he saw the closure of the textile mills and then the coal mines in his area around Kirkcaldy, which had an effect on him . His oratory skills are said to be like in the manner of an evangelical preacher, something maybe he picked up from his father. Brown saw the effect of unemployment on the community and was very active in community services. Brown spoke there to keep and maintain the already converted, the Labour faithful, the core Labour base. At the University of Edinburgh, as a doctoral graduate in history, he became the university elected rector, and he was active in student politics. He