In a typical flash of brilliance, Rowan Williams has finally applied his immense intellect to the conundrum of what to do about the protesters camped outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, an inconvenience that is costing the church £20,000 per day and, to date, three senior clergy, not to mention new fractures in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
The answer was there for all to see, but it took a Welsh academic with out of control eyebrows to pierce the confusion and find an answer: tax the banks some more!
Very soon now the protesters will melt away, caught up in a euphoria of selflessness, knowing that the leader of the church on whose steps they are playing house wants much of the money now flowing into the coffers of British banks to be diverted into good works – like paying for bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
From here:
Dr Rowan Williams said that the Church of England had a “proper interest in the ethics of the financial world” and warned that there had been “little visible change in banking practices” following the recession.
He urged David Cameron and George Osborne to drop their opposition to a European-wide tax on financial transactions, which is expected to be formally proposed by France and Germany at the G20 summit of world leaders starting tomorrow.
“The demands of the protesters have been vague. Many people are frustrated beyond measure at what they see as the disastrous effects of global capitalism; but it isn’t easy to say what we should do differently. It is time we tried to be more specific,” Dr Williams said.
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