Faith and the Big Society

[Phil D. Rolls]

See these Tories, they are as subtle as a rugby team from the borders standing outside an Amsterdam brothel. The red faced, ham fisted sons of the shires are turning their hand to welfare.

There was some government woman on the news last night talking up the role that faith groups have to play in our society. To me, this ties in with Dave's vision of a society where we all muck in.

Could this by any chance be a further gambit in the dismantling of the welfare state? My own initial thoughts are that the state took over control of welfare because of the abuses of power that religious groups inflicted on beneficiaries of their services.

It wasn't just Catholic orphanages where sexual abuse was rife. I wonder how they will square lack of state interference in the provision of welfare with the need to ensure that we don't go back to the old days.

[Betty Boop]

See these Tories, they are as subtle as a rugby team from the borders standing outside an Amsterdam brothel. The red faced, ham fisted sons of the shires are turning their hand to welfare.

There was some government woman on the news last night talking up the role that faith groups have to play in our society. To me, this ties in with Dave's vision of a society where we all muck in.

Could this by any chance be a further gambit in the dismantling of the welfare state? My own initial thoughts are that the state took over control of welfare because of the abuses of power that religious groups inflicted on beneficiaries of their services.

It wasn't just Catholic orphanages where sexual abuse was rife. I wonder how they will square lack of state interference in the provision of welfare with the need to ensure that we don't go back to the old days.

Baroness Warsi, she said the coalition 'does God'.

[Twa Cairpets]

Baroness Warsi, she said the coalition 'does God'.

Oh dearie me. I'd much prefer them to do politics, and Nick Clegg is an atheist so hopefully he'll balance out the input from faith groups.

I did like this quote from about the PM though:
"David Cameron has said his faith "is a bit like the reception for Magic FM in the Chilterns: it sort of comes and goes".

[Woody1985]

I'd object to anymore religious interference in my daily life than there already is. I appreciate that will always happen in life but less the better.