Further To Yesterday's Post

[poliphilo]

Canon Giles Fraser- who welcomed the protesters to St. Paul's when they first showed up- and told the police to back off- has resigned from the office of Canon Chancellor of the cathedral- presumably to distance himself from everything that has happened since. Good for him!  l love it when a person resigns on a question of principle. It's something that happens all too rarely.

Comments

It's not that he was (and, really, remains) a Trot.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

It's not even his association w the People's Republic of Wadham. (Cd be worse: cd have been Balliol.)

It's that, whilst pi-jawing incessantly from the Left and denouncing 'money-changers in the temple', the bugger is the most naked and incessant self-publicist ever to boost his ego and his prospects by tuft-hunting and seeking place and preferment.

Re: It's not that he was (and, really, remains) a Trot.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But surely all senior clergy are tuft-hunters etc. Is he really so much worse?

One minds it rather less...

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

... from an old-fashioned Erastian than from an insistent 'radical'; there seems a certain added hypocrisy in the latter.