Nick Baines' blog. 16 August 2014
Letter to Government by Bishop Nick Baines
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Nick Baines' blog. 16 August 2014
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“Is the church so at odds with David Cameron?”
Perhaps not– http://nickbaines.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/as-i-was-saying/
Bishop Nick’s has further written:
My letter is neither “bitter” not an “attack” on the Prime Minister. That was journalese. My letter simply tries to ask questions many people are asking, but to which we are not getting answers. I wrote reasonably and respectfully
http://nickbaines.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/as-i-was-saying/
The observer interprets the letter this way under the headline “Church launches bitter attack on PM’s ‘incoherent’ Middle East policy Bishop of Leeds slams failure over Islamist extremism in scathing letter backed by the archbishop of Canterbury” :
The Church of England has delivered a withering critique of David Cameron’s Middle East policy, describing the government’s approach as incoherent, ill-thought-out and determined by “the loudest media voice at any particular time”.
The criticisms are made in an extraordinary letter to the prime minister signed by the bishop of Leeds, Nicholas Baines, and written with the support of the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Seen by the Observer, it describes the UK’s foreign policy as so muddled and reactive that it is “difficult to discern the strategic intentions” of the government’s approach to the region.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/16/church-of-england-attack-david-cameron-middle-east-policy
Is the church so at odds with David Cameron?