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Alan Cresswell
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quote: Originally posted by luvanddaisies: Ship's poll, currently located in the Circus would suggest we're a more lefty lot than that.
I knew there was some reason I like most of the people here
The survey passer linked to showed that the CofE is further to the right than other denominations. To be surprised that the Ship is further to the left than that would only make sense to someone suffering the delusion that this is an Anglican website.
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The Midge
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ITTWAAWS.
The Conservative party on it's knees where as many here would like to bring the Conservative party to its knees.
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luvanddaisies
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Wonder why Anglicans would be necessarily more to the political right than other denominations (or, indeed than non-church people) - especially given the wide range of C of E congregations, from lower than a snake's belly to hovering so high on the candle they've never even seen the wax. [ 15. April 2015, 18:17: Message edited by: luvanddaisies ]
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Alan Cresswell
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It's the evils of Constantinianism.
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Jane R
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Also, the survey makes no mention of how active these people are in the church. I am the most left-wing of three sisters and the only regular churchgoer, but both my sisters would describe themselves as Anglicans too.
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Sioni Sais
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There's this for a start. The bloody awful Richard 'Dirty' Desmond has donated a million pounds to UKIP.
In addition to the Daily and Sunday Express his firm publishes the Star titles, which are in direct competition with the Sun, OK! and Now! Looking at what he used to publish, that represents a move upmarket.
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Anglican't
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quote: Originally posted by Sioni Sais: There's this for a start. The bloody awful Richard 'Dirty' Desmond has donated a million pounds to UKIP.
Apparently, this was a bit of a surprise turn. But for me still not as surprising as the way the Daily Express describes itself as the 'world's best newspaper' on its masthead without a trace of irony.
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betjemaniac
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quote: Originally posted by Anglican't: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sioni Sais: [qb] There's this for a start. The bloody awful [URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32340976]But for me still not as surprising as the way the Daily Express describes itself as the 'world's best newspaper' on its masthead without a trace of irony.
I agree, except it's "The world's greatest newspaper."
IIRC it was actually awarded the title in either 1999 or 2000 as greatest newspaper of the millennium or something in the press awards, or a poll of journalists, or something.
More specifically it was referring to the Daily Express of the 1950s and 60s, and people sometimes forget how genuinely, globally, groundbreaking that paper then was. For a good decade it ploughed a cutting edge furrow as neither a broadsheet nor a tabloid (although it was broadsheet format) but a completely socially, intellectually, and coverage-wise alternative to both. Basically it was a right of centre mirror of the then Manchester Guardian.
Of course, it's since been hollowed out and engaged in a fight to the death with the Daily Heil, but it's worth pausing a moment to feel genuine sadness at the destruction of a once-great newspaper IMHO. That banner of "world's greatest newspaper" should be seen as more of an epitaph and censure - personally I'm glad it's there, because it reminds me every time I pass a newsstand of what successive owners have done to it.
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Albertus
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quote: Originally posted by Jane R: Also, the survey makes no mention of how active these people are in the church. I am the most left-wing of three sisters and the only regular churchgoer, but both my sisters would describe themselves as Anglicans too.
And levels of activity do make a difference: this is very illuminating.
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jbohn
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quote: Originally posted by betjemaniac: I agree, except it's "The world's greatest newspaper."
Silly, silly. The World's Greatest Newspaper is the Chicago Tribune, as any fule kno.
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Alan Cresswell
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Surely it's the Daily Planet.
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luvanddaisies
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quote: Originally posted by Alan Cresswell: quote: Originally posted by luvanddaisies: Ship's poll, currently located in the Circus would suggest we're a more lefty lot than that.
I knew there was some reason I like most of the people here
The survey passer linked to showed that the CofE is further to the right than other denominations. To be surprised that the Ship is further to the left than that would only make sense to someone suffering the delusion that this is an Anglican website.
That said, maybe the Anglicans are boarding us - on the aforementioned Circus-very-scientific-Ship-opinion-poll, the Tories have been noticably catching up on the more to the left parties over the last couple of days (for the sake of brevity/laziness/tradition/whatever I'm including Labour as one of these, even though any fule kno that's not the case - they are a bit more Left than the Tories).
(Pointless but amusing aside; Sky's Election coverage trailer - some of the party leaders singing "And I Swear". It's been really well done.)
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luvanddaisies
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I think the original was by "Boys II Men", which I assumed was part of the joke.
- or maybe they're going with the media script that adds UKIP into the category "mainstream party", but leaves out Plaid, SNP, and the Greens, who have more members than UKIP and more than LibDem.
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