Labour's apocalypse will expose the lazy mediocrity of the Churches

By Damian Thompson
Jun 5, 2009

The glorious unravelling of this Labour government will pose terrible problems for a generation of Church leaders who completely failed to understand what was fundamentally wrong with the New Labour project.

Archbishop Rowan Williams, Archbishop John Sentamu, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and nearly every other English bishop, Anglican and Catholic, to say nothing of the Free Churches - all of them protested about aspects of Government policy but essentially supported Labour's corrosive social engineering. the rest