December 18, 2008

Canterbury and Downing Street

Gordon Brown may be a son of the Manse, but it's the Archbishop of Canterbury, of all people, who has picked up a presbyterian cudgel with which to whack the Prime Minister. To wit:

The Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the government's fiscal stimulus package on Thursday, likening it to "an addict returning to a drug."

Then again, it hardly matters. It's not as though many people listen to the Church of England anyway....

18 Dec 2008 15:23:46 | Brown

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Anthony

Nice to know that the Archbish can be correct once every half-decade or so. Though if we look into it, he's probably right for all the wrong reasons...

Posted by: Anthony | December 18, 2008 at 08:09 PM

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