David cameron's disconnect
30 november 2012
David Cameron is resisting the call to implement the main proposal of the Leveson Report.
In spite of the haemorrhage from the ranks of the Tory membership, down from 300,000 to 130,000 at the last count, the hammering from a triple loss to Labour in the three by-elections yesterday, and the Labour wins in the three by-elections on 15/11/2012, events do not seem to have concentrated his mind.
It is puzzling why David Cameron is so strong in resisting a new independent watchdog of the press? If he is afraid of inhibiting free speech, why is he not afraid of inhibiting the free expression of Christian ideas?
To add to his growing list of zany policies, including trying to redefine marriage, we now have a government policy to withdraw funding from new free schools if they teach that God created the world! One could hardly make this up. Indeed, it was so ridiculous that the BBC changed the first paragraph of its report. It originally read: “Any attempt to present as fact the view that God made the world could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes.” This version is still available on several websites gleefully reporting the news. However the BBC has changed its first paragraph to read: “Failing to teach evolution by natural selection in science lessons could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes.” It is likely that even this needs to be corrected, because Christians have no difficulty teaching this theory as a hypothesis; the difficulty is subscribing to the atheist code that it is fact.
A new state religion is developing, and it carries state sanctions with it. We wonder if there are any Christians left in his Cabinet. Who helps him to make these crazy policies?
David Cameron’s odd ideas are shared by his Chancellor. George Osborne has said that redefining marriage will help his party to win the next election. We wonder if they connect with voters at all. However, it shows that any long-held tradition can be sacrificed to winning the next election.
The dogmatism of our Prime Minister in Westminster and the First Minister in Holyrood should concern the public. The sooner we have a clear Christian voice articulated in government and parliamentary circles, the better.
In spite of the haemorrhage from the ranks of the Tory membership, down from 300,000 to 130,000 at the last count, the hammering from a triple loss to Labour in the three by-elections yesterday, and the Labour wins in the three by-elections on 15/11/2012, events do not seem to have concentrated his mind.
It is puzzling why David Cameron is so strong in resisting a new independent watchdog of the press? If he is afraid of inhibiting free speech, why is he not afraid of inhibiting the free expression of Christian ideas?
To add to his growing list of zany policies, including trying to redefine marriage, we now have a government policy to withdraw funding from new free schools if they teach that God created the world! One could hardly make this up. Indeed, it was so ridiculous that the BBC changed the first paragraph of its report. It originally read: “Any attempt to present as fact the view that God made the world could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes.” This version is still available on several websites gleefully reporting the news. However the BBC has changed its first paragraph to read: “Failing to teach evolution by natural selection in science lessons could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes.” It is likely that even this needs to be corrected, because Christians have no difficulty teaching this theory as a hypothesis; the difficulty is subscribing to the atheist code that it is fact.
A new state religion is developing, and it carries state sanctions with it. We wonder if there are any Christians left in his Cabinet. Who helps him to make these crazy policies?
David Cameron’s odd ideas are shared by his Chancellor. George Osborne has said that redefining marriage will help his party to win the next election. We wonder if they connect with voters at all. However, it shows that any long-held tradition can be sacrificed to winning the next election.
The dogmatism of our Prime Minister in Westminster and the First Minister in Holyrood should concern the public. The sooner we have a clear Christian voice articulated in government and parliamentary circles, the better.