Justin Welby is again in the news condemning the government as if, somehow he has taken over the unelected role as leader of the opposition. Although, thinking about it, he couldn’t be worse than the present incumbent.
Boris Johnson’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda does not “stand the judgment of God,” according to the archbishop of Canterbury.
In a scathing intervention, the head of the Church of England, Justin Welby, will use his Easter Sunday sermon to say that the principle of deporting asylum seekers 4,000 miles from where they sought sanctuary is akin to “subcontracting our responsibilities” and the “opposite of the nature of God”.
Really? Where doe it say that, then? And does he have a special hotline to the Almighty to get updates on what God thinks? The reality here is that like the rest of the leftist establishment he is taking a political stance, nothing more. There is nothing immoral about outsourcing such matters.
The government’s intention is to send all single men who arrive by boats or lorries to Rwanda…
If this kills the trade in Channel crossings dead, then it will be a good thing. If it stops people drowning, it will be a good thing. Seems Welby disagrees with killing off the people smuggling racket and preventing people from drowning. Or am I doing him a disservice?
And on the subject of Rwanda…
Is Rwanda just the other side of the English Channel then? I presume that it must be if the UK is the nearest place that Rwandan refugees can seek sanctuary.
Does anyone seriously think this grandly publicised plan will ever get off the ground in any meaningful numbers?
Political eyewash.
No, but seeing the usual suspects frothing at the mouth has a certain entertainment value.
First of all, these people are not asylum seekers, they are economic migrants, travelling through several safe countries, where they could have applied for asylum if they really were trying to escape danger. Instead, they invaded the one country in Europe wherever government is so stupid that they strangely meet the French naval people traffickers in the middle of the channel and actually bring them into the country, while complaining that these people are actually coming into the country. They are here, you morons, because you brought them here! Then, you put them up in 4 star hotels, give them pizza and a shed load of (taxpayers) money, plus providing them with free medical and dental care. All this, at a time when hundreds, if not thousands, of ex military, many suffering from experiences of serving their country, are homeless and ignored.
If Rwanda is not considered to be a safe enough country, as Stonyground suggested, send these migrants back to a safe country much closer, about 22 miles off the Kent coast.
Welby should have as big a say in government policies as the politicians should have in the running of the Church of England. In fact, let’s nationalise it and watch the woke CofE fade into oblivion and Justin with it.
I really find it hard to put into words the sheer visceral hate I feel for the degenerates who are wilfully doing this.
I mean, of course, the UK “government” agencies who facilitate this invasion.
Last time I looked – at a map of tides and currents – if they simply stopped picking them up they would drift in a general east west direction and wash up back in France or Belgium.
Just stop picking them up and leave them
After all, everyone listens to the AoC these days, don’t they? He’s really keen to prove that he’s woke and a pillock . . . mind you, they often do go together.
Welby is a fool and it’s mim and his ilk who have caused the mass exodus of CofE congregants. People go to chuch to worship God, not to hear Labour party political broadcasts
On Rwanda, it won’t work. Slime lawyers will be on it already and flights will depart with few or no passengers
Only solution: send back to France
We should have from first boat. French Navy aren’t going to fire at and sink Border Force or RNLI boats delivering the ‘rescued’ back to where they sailed from
This demonstrates what is wrong with Welby & CoE
Conservatives not welcome Bishops rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIlYj2CmNp0
Wow – that interview is shocking!
If I were Calvin I’d decamp to RC if possible – theologically it isn’t so different.
I was also struck by Welby’s comments on what God does and doesn’t approve of, considering that (if you even believe in this hokum) God hasn’t made a personal appearance since Moses.
And if there is a God, can Welby explain why the bastard allowed 4½ million people to die unnecessarily from COVID? Why hasn’t he struck down Vladimir Putin for starting a war?
I think Epucurus had it correct.
“If God can stop evil, but chooses not to do so, he is not benevolent.
If he wishes to stop evil, but is unable to do so, he is not omnipotent.
If he can stop evil, and wishes to do so, then whence comes evil?
If he can neither stop evil, nor wish to do so, why call him God?”
“I was also struck by Welby’s comments on what God does and doesn’t approve of…”
The Daily Mash are onto this one, pointing out that, through most of the Old Testament this is pretty much what God was doing to anyone who got in his bad books. Not getting in his bad books was difficult as he liked to arbitrarily change the rules and then not tell anyone.
Dominic Lawson good today:
What’s really ungodly, Archbishop, is people smugglers growing rich while asylum seekers drown in the Channel
As for what Archbishop Welby calls ‘the rich and the strong’, the fact that those dinghies charge around £7,000 per passenger, and almost 70 per cent of those on board are men between the ages of 18 and 40, suggests they are not the poorest and certainly not the weakest
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10727265/