++Rowan Williams Is A Profoundly Divisive Leftie

from Stand Firm by Jackie

Divisive? Leftie? Really?

I was actually thinking it should read ++Rowan Williams is a divisive leader. But then, I digress.

Let us listen while ++Rowan emotes.

When you bore down through the customary waffle and opacity, [Ed. note: That's our Rowan!] this would seem to mean that the Coalition may not have a democratic mandate. Of course it is true that the two governing parties have broken some of their pledges.

The inevitability of compromise is a powerful argument against coalitions. But it is simply not true, as Dr Williams alleges, that 'with remarkable speed, we are being committed to radical long-term policies for which no one voted'. His example of the Government's 'free schools' policy is a case in point. The Tories set out their ideas in enormous detail before the last election, and they were included in their manifesto.

Whether Dr Williams likes it or not, significantly more people – nearly 11million – voted for the Tories than any other party in May 2010. But it is probably in his attack on Iain Duncan Smith's welfare changes that the Archbishop is widest of the mark. He bemoans the 'quiet resurgence of the seductive language of the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor.'

Why he should think such language 'seductive' I don't know, but it has never been used by Mr Duncan Smith or anyone else in the Government.

This is a slur against a man (a devout Christian, as it happens) who has thought much more than Dr Williams about how to help the long-term poor free themselves from what are often generations of workless existence and dependence on welfare.

++Rowan can rouse himself to abuse the government in his typical eccentric fashion but did anyone else notice (as is quite typical of the Episcopal leadership) he offers no solution. Everyone wants to help the poor among us, however, until the human trait of greed and corruption falls to the wayside (Come Jesus Come), the poor will be with us always. Unless the governments around the world (listen up, DC) begin to get real and balance the budget, there will soon be no one to pay the high cost of entitlements. It does beg the question just how much ++Rowan contributes to the tax base, doesn't it?