Fund A Mental?

Forty million pounds is less than half of what the NHS spends per day.

Yes, I know that it's the principle, on both sides. But whatever happened to the National Secular Society? In previous Holy Weeks, it would have been all over the airwaves and the public prints, demanding that Easter be abolished as a public holiday. But no more. Instead, it just wants to get rid of NHS chaplains. Is that it? Is that really the best that you can do?

In any case, you have no chance with either Brown or Cameron, both of whom are, as Blair was, religiously observant and domestically conventional such as to be wildly untypical of The Project, but entirely in tune with the aspirations, even if not necessarily with the day-to-day lives, of the electorate at large.

That was why Blair left bishops in the House of Lords.

And that is why Brown, Cameron or any other Prime Minister will leave chaplains in the NHS.