Occupy London & Richard Chartres – or Let’s Bash The Bishop!

Stewart Home.

The Corporation of London and their representatives in the Church of 
England look all set to evict the Occupy London encampment sometime this 
week. For anyone approaching the Occupy London protest from the east 
along St Paul’s Churchyard, the sight of the tents with a branch of 
camping equipment shop Blacks also in clear view is probably enough to 
raise a chuckle. The manager of Blacks couldn’t have arranged a better 
advert for the store’s winter sale. Less hilarious is the effect of The 
Church of England on the protest. When I was down there on Saturday, 
some religious nutcase was banging on and on about how she’d become a 
more effective activist after finding Jesus five years earlier. Rather 
than concentrating on real issues, Occupy London has at times been 
diverted into debates that are about as relevant to the working class as 
theological hair-splitting about ‘how many angels can dance on the head 
of a pin?’

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