Categories: randomness, christianity, anglicanism, politics
Tags: ties, Tom Wright, Lib Dems, Tories, Labour Party, Politics, Durham
Date: 17 May 2010 16:09:00
Two big changes recently. The first one relates to the new government, about which you'd have needed to be living in a deep hole under Barrow-in-Furness not to have heard about. The second may have been noticed by Church geeks like me - Bishop Tom Wright is to become a professor at St Andrew's. Having spent the day writing job application letters, I do not have the energy for serious comment, so here's some irreverent comment instead:
The footage of David Cameron with Nick Clegg was been really quite amusing. If they didn't have this party-political-coordinated-ties thing going on at the moment it'd be hard to tell them apart! I gather that already some grumpy old right-wing Tories and more left-wing Guardian-reading Lib Dems are having a moan. My bet is it'll last about six months before falling apart after a blazing row about something trivial that is the straw that broke the camel's back. I for one am not keen on cross-party love-ins. It's enough to make you wretch... Wonder what Mr Wesley would have thought: "No con-dem-nation now I dread..." I have rejoined the Labour Party.
Bishop Tom's departure made the Church of England newspaper, and so did the comment of one blogger, whom I assume is in Durham diocese, that Tom should be congratulated on his amazing ministry, as not everyone could run a diocese from the American lecture circuit and the departure lounges of international airports. Maybe he should get a prize before he takes up his 'do nothing' chair. I think a droopy mitre might be appropriate, though I'm open to suggestions...