Archbishop of Canterbury calls for radical economic reform
from BBC News:
[…] Britain’s economic model is simply unfit for the 2020s, the IPPR argues. The organisation proposes a “fundamental reform” of the economy, on a scale comparable with the Atlee reforms of the 1940s and the Thatcher revolution of the 1980s.
Committee members include the Archbishop, along with leading figures from business and civil society.
The archbishop said: “Our economic model is broken. Britain stands at a watershed moment where we need to make fundamental choices about the sort of economy we need.
“We are failing those who will grow up into a world where the gap between the richest and poorest parts of the country is significant and destabilising.”
Editor’s note: Some commentators feel that the timing of the release of this report is unfortunate, coinciding with more statistics of catastrophic decline in C of E affiliation numbers, and that the ABC should be attending to that. Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail says […]
How did Archbishop Welby respond to yesterday’s depressing social attitudes figures?
I wish I could say he met this crisis head-on, saying he understood or disputed the findings. I wish I could tell you he knelt in Trafalgar Square in public penance, or issued a fire-and-brimstone sermon, or told a joke, or issued a blood-curdling curse on all our houses.
Instead, he gave us his views on . . . the economy. He was putting his name to a report by a Blairite think-tank about economic justice and telling us (not that anyone was listening) Britain’s ‘economic model is broken’ and ‘we need to make fundamental choices about the sort of economy we need’.
Oh, and he was writing an opinion article for the Financial Times. That’s really going to bring in the faithful.
Ed: Of course others may argue that publicly advocating improvements to the economy and society is the evangelistic strategy…
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