Meddling Bishops Meddling Manifesto

lindapalmara | 13:22 Wed 18th Feb 2015 | News

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I was livid to read some of the so called 'Manifesto' Written by meddling left wing Bishops. They tried to claim last night on Newsnight that they were just trying to encourage people to vote to counteract the odious Russel Brand and that it was not party political. I will just pick one comment from this Document which got my back up was

"It is good that unemployment has not risen.as high as was predicted or as high as past experience suggested it would". Don't they know that unemployment has NOT risen at all in the last 5 years it's just dropped massively (much to the disappointment of the two Eds).

It is said that mostanglicans are Conservative supporters. Let's hope they react to this drivel. "Render unto Caesar" and all that, ie. The Church should not interfere with Government.

Just heard in the news that unemployment has fallen again. Lowest for 6 years.

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naomi24

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00:01 Thu 19th Feb 2015

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lindapalmara

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We have a booming economy and there is a chance of passing it over to the Wrecking Balls who destroyed it in the first place.

sandyRoe

Is it not the business of the church to promulgate Christ's teachings?

lindapalmara

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Yes but not to tell lies

sandyRoe

The days of churches preaching the likes of this are long gone :
The rich man in his castle
The poor man at the gate
God made them high and lowly
And ordered their estate.

-Talbot-

"It is good that unemployment has not risen.as high as was predicted or as high as past experience suggested it would".

Just listened...that is not what he said.

craft1948

" He would be on the side of the poor, the down-trodden, and the weak, and how have the Tories ever helped those ?"

And how exactly did the last Labour government help anyone economy wise?

lindapalmara

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Just listened to what Talbot?

-Talbot-

Newsnight... the Bishop.

Was there more on later in the program?

lindapalmara

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I thought the bishops on Newsnight were responding to the criticism they had already had and we're making excuses. I was going on the written document. Anyway, the whole thing was a political ploy and many people think the Church should not interfer with Politics. That's the point I was making, whether it was right or left wing bias.

mikey4444

Crafty....What have the Romans ever done for us ?

The Labour Party brought in the minimum wage, soon after they won the landslide 1997 Election. The Tories had plenty of time to do likewise, between 1979 and 1997 but didn't think it was necessary. They now agree that it is a Good Idea, despite voting against while they were in opposition.

lindapalmara

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OMG We could be here all night Mikey saying what they did and what the others did or didn't do. I'm losing the will to live!

mikey4444

I was just answering crafty Linda, thats all !

Svejk

Labour would have opened the floodgates to a load of cheap Samarian carpenters. And then Joseph couldn't have afforded to have Jesus.

-Talbot-

Joseph had a choice?

naomi24

Mikey, //The Labour Party brought in the minimum wage, soon after they won the landslide 1997 Election.//

You consistently offer that pathetic statement as evidence that the Labour Party is the Party of the working man and each time you’ve been reminded that they also abolished the 10p tax rate for low earners and rifled the working man’s pension fund Giving with one hand and taking with the other is of no benefit whatsoever. I’m convinced you think the reader is stupid – or at least you hope he’s forgetful. The Labour Party is not the Party of the working man, and the sooner the working man abandons his antiquated vision of a non-existent ideology in favour of reality the better off he will be.

Sorry Linda, that had to be said – again!

Hypognosis

Zero hours contracts mean that many now understand what it meant for *** workers to have to queue at the gates every morning, waiting to be picked and, on the lean days, watch the foreman dishing out work only to their favourites.

If Britain keeps thus up, we'll see the unions on the rise again. A repeat of the 1920s, for the 2020s.

Cue a classic Not The Nine O'Clock news sketch…

-Talbot-

C'mon, Hypo...things have got much better than queuing at the gates every morning to see if they will get a days work.

They will now get a text at home.

Hypognosis

@Talbot

//They will now get a text at home.//

Or a voice call. With my chronic fatigue and tendency to sleep heavily at that hour of the morning, I haven't got an icecube's chance, if I ever do find work.

Note: I'm not on the unemployment statistics. Too much savings to qualify. When the granparents were all alive I had no savings and there were interest rates people could live off. The one time in my life I come into money effin Gordon Brown and the BofE zero the interest rates. I firmly believe they will stay low until I am skint again.

ps I must have typo-ed 'dock workers'.

mikey4444

Naomi........alas, we will always be on opposite sides in political matters, but what I said about the minimum wage was true. I will never forget the huge landslide Victory for the Labour Party in 1997, and in subsequent elections.

But I have never pretended that everything is always rosy under Labour, as you, presumably, would not say that everything was marvelous under the Tories. But surely its a matter of balance ? Judging by the Polls, the majority of people still think, on balance, they will be better off under Labour than under the Tories, although I will be the first to admit that the gap is not huge.

But if you insist that Labour is NOT the party of the "Working Man", which Party is ?