...a blog post entitled "We Need More Tory Bishops". Oh we do, do we? Apparently, the writer is also "is firmly persuaded that the Lord wants Ed Miliband to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom about as much as He wants Johann Hari to write the Third Testament". Apparently all Bishops in the Church of England "pore over The Guardian every morning with their mint tea and muesli and intercede fervently for the amelioration of the fortunes of Ed Miliband".
Apparently though, this kind of thing is all humour, because right wingers have a better sense of humour than left wingers (to quote Michael Ehioze-Ediae).
The post, as us usual from this really rather abhorrent imposter of a probably caring, compassionate and non-judging historical member of God's church, descends into a prejudiced and deliberately misleading rant, as perhaps best exemplified by this: "How in the name of St Gemma could an income of £2000 a month be considered poverty?".
Has "His Grace", as this blogger pompously calls himself, considered who might actually get the full amount of benefits?
Has "His Grace" thought about the determinants of this? I guess he probably figures we should shut up such people as his lovely (and totally non-judgementally named) St Gemma in some ghetto areas of town, the slums, rather than have the possibility, shock horror, that they might actually live somewhere near decent, sophisticated people.
Sophisticated people that read the Telegraph and studied A-level economics and thus think they are entitled to judge on exactly how the economy should work, and what governments should and shouldn't do. But, of course, in writing that, I slip right into the category of "His Grace" in making judgements about people.
The bottom line is this: I'm yet to find a right winger, particularly one who is a Christian, talk about benefits and the poorer in society, without resorting to such vague generalisations about the "kinds of people" who claim benefits - based on no more evidence than what they read in the Daily Mail. The idea that the "kinds of people" that are on benefits are our neighbours, and thus we should love them, as Jesus exhorted, seems very lost on these people.
Go on someone, surprise me.
