Boris - Part Deux
This Question for “Questions Answered” comes from an Anglican lady on the edge of the parish boundaries over toward Oxford near Deddington.
Rev dear Rev: As an Anglican reader of things churchy, I am always amazed when experienced adult politicians go after each other in the public forum and when seasoned warriors of the ballot box like Sir Keir, who incidentally should know better, make bizarre claims about the private life of the prime minister, is there a precedent for this kind of showmanship for catholic citizens to be concerned about?
Shocking stuff actually, quite shocking. The future prime minister made gainful employ about the existing outgoing prime minister’s father and then about the prime minister’s anatomy and his reproductive rights, in a show worthy of any Cage aux Folles in Paris. Quite bizarre. And all because the existing prime minister had a few tumbles with belles of the ball in his colourful past. Invasions of the right to privacy are going to occur but woe to those future people who will have to experience such invasions of their rights by top down futuristic government ministerial machineries. Such importunate comments bode ill for the right to privacy in the future, as protected by church law and even some civil law - indeed if the civil lawyers do not do something about it, then the church courts can and might award an action for damages against the old Red fuddy-duddy Labourite. It seems it is possible sometimes for newspapers to do this kind of thing at times, it is kind of expected, but for a future prime minister to make sport of the outgoing prime minister predecessor with such plain and gayful abandon is quite bizarre. The right to privacy about one’s history of intimacy is still guaranteed by the HRA 98, and by the CIC 83, but it is not thought until now that a serving prime minister should need to avail of its many protections. Red Labour is fast approaching power but if it hits the barriers at St Pancras on such Bedpan lines with such speed, then it will swiftly become Blue Labour as people exit the party that once protected the ordinary man in the street, as Dan Wootton says so adroitly. Not a good day for government. Not a good day for parliamentarians. Never a good day to bury bad news but that was one of them. Church figures aghast. We fairly gasped.