Tuesday 14 August 2012

Nor Thy Manservant, Nor Thy Maidservant

It comes as absolutely no surprise that Eric Pickles, who has made such a show of defending prayers at local council meetings, is "open-minded" about retaining in perpetuity the "relaxation for the duration of the Olympics" of what little Sunday trading legislation remained in place after the last Conservative Government.

It is to the everlasting shame of Labour that, having rightly opposed this regression to the days before Nonconformist Radicals freed the working classes from the tyranny of seven-day working weeks, it failed to repeal that regression while in office.

Unworthy of the Christian Socialist pioneers? Certainly. But also unworthy of Socialist International partners such as the Sunday-protecting Mayor of Paris, who is exactly as godly as any other flamboyantly homosexual French left-winger.

Still, that is the past now. Chuka Umunna, a key Blue Labour ally, is on the case. Will the Tory papers nevertheless continue to give uncritical support to the Conservative Party? If so, then how can they expect to be counted as anything other than election expenditure by that party? And where would that leave ostentatious anti-Leveson noises about the freedom of the press?

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