English Yokel

The Vicar of Bray (reprise)

Yokel has just noticed that Tony Blair has just announced that he has changed his brand of Christianity. Yokel is reminded of the song about the Vicar of Bray who changed sides so many times that we all lost count. In those days it was all about achieving preferment by being on the right side of the political divide, rather than about true faith in the Son of God.

And so it seems today. Tony Blair had to be an Anglican (certainly a Protestant) if he was to be Prime Minister, a Catholic appointing Bishops to the Church of England would not have gone down well! But now he is in the running for President of Europe, he has to be a Catholic. The EU Europe is a Catholic construction, and its President can be none other. Yokel is not as full of admiration as the BBC, in fact he has no admiration at all. But then we have become accepting of Blair's treachery against the people of Britain. And as for Rowan Williams wishing him well on his spiritual journey, that makes two of them who don't know their Bible. Will no-one tell the man that he is headed in the wrong direction, and that spin doctors will be unable to protect him when he must give his final account?

Yokel doesn't know whether to sit and think, or just sit, or ... ...