William Beattie (politician) William Beattie (politician) William Beattie (born 21 September 1942) is a former minister of religion and Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Beattie grew up in Ballymena. In 1965, he became a student minister at the Dunmurry Free Presbyterian Church, and in 1967 he became a full minister in the Church, led by Ian Paisley. He also joined Paisley's Protestant Unionist Party (PUP), and became the deputy leader. In 1970, Beattie was elected to the Northern Ireland House of Commons in a by-election in South Antrim. On the same day, Paisley was elected for Bannside, and the two became the PUP's
The Minister Who Falls to Pieces the sketch becomes ever more absurd. Retrieved from The Four Sydney Lotterbies The Minister Who Falls to Pieces "The Minister Who Falls to Pieces", also known as "The Minister Who Falls Apart" and "The Disintegrating Minister," was a surreal British comedy sketch. Though it was heard on radio in 1966 (with John Cleese in the role of the interviewer), it is probably best known in the version performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman in the later 1960s on television, in "At Last the 1948 Show". The sketch can be heard on the original soundtrack album of "At Last the