Justin Welby and other bishops do not deserve a decent pension | UK

Someone once said, “Evil triumphs when good people do nothing.” And that’s exactly what happened in the shocking sex abuse scandal that rocked the Church of England this week.

Supposedly good men – and women – stood by and did nothing while the monstrous pedophile John Smyth, THE most prolific child abuser ever associated with the CofE, was allowed to continue his evil work – and then escape to South Africa – because people those who knew or suspected it did nothing.

And the result of this cruel, deliberate inaction is that the Archbishop of Canterbury is being removed from his job, with another thirty clergy – including four bishops – set to follow. And honestly, dismissal is too good for them.

They are not allowed to sneak quietly into the night after what they have done – or not done. They shouldn’t be given a graceful retirement, not when there are 130 men (once Smyth’s terrified child victims) whose lives have been ruined forever because Welby and his cowardly cohorts chose to protect the Church and their own positions above them. That’s bad, isn’t it?

What needs to happen now is that Justin Welby needs to lose his seat in the House of Lords. How can anything he says ever be taken seriously again? And if you need the measure of the man, it was only a week ago that he arrogantly announced that he would not resign. “I’ve thought about it a lot,” he said. “And no, I am not going to resign over this.” The implication was that he didn’t think he had done anything wrong and he didn’t need to.

Even days later, his resignation speech STILL failed to acknowledge his wrongdoing.

As for all others who remained silent, they should be named, shamed and removed from the Church. It is inconceivable that people like them – without a moral compass or Christian responsibility – would preach the word of God when their silence and the damage it causes is indefensible and so damned ungodly.

I have written and spoken a lot in recent days about the details of this scandal and the evil at the heart of it still shocks me to my core. How can people whose job it is to spread the word of God, to preach goodness and godliness, cling to what they knew or suspected about Smyth, and deny justice and peace to those poor, abused boys.

And the Makin Report (which exposed this horror) says this is exactly what happened. They knew it or suspected it, but did nothing.

And what this scandal has blown out of the water is the assumption that men and women who wear dog collars and do God’s work are good people at heart. How could these people be if they knew or had heard the stories of petrified young boys who were so brutally beaten and abused by Smythe that they bled so profusely that they had to wear diapers – and remained silent.

Don’t tell me these are good people. They are the antithesis of good!

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Sharon Osbourne says she can’t gain weight after quitting Ozempic. Sorry, I’m not buying it. Just looking at Sharon’s face tells me that her problems are much bigger than coming off the drugs she was taking to lose weight. She has to confront them first, but she won’t do that as long as she can keep blaming Ozempic.

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Boots, the pharmacy, is in financial trouble after being forced to close 300 stores. So it was a strange decision by this ailing company to release a Christmas ad that has angered and alienated large swathes of customers.

It features actress Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Claus. She’s the lady who you may remember caused national outrage when she said at the coronation that the Buckingham Place balcony looked “terribly white”, which of course would be the case because the Royal Family is white.

The ad’s story depicts a fat, white, lazy old Santa Claus who falls asleep on Christmas Eve and is rescued by Mrs. Claus and her assorted staff, consisting of TikTok ‘elfuencers’ and drag queens. Real?

Christmas is a time of tradition, it’s about celebrating the birth of Christ, so why can’t we celebrate our traditions without always having to have messages about race, diversity and inclusivity shoved down our throats. Why does every event, every celebration have to have a woke, in-your-face story that a large part of Britain doesn’t believe in (I’m talking about gender ideology here).

A Boots spokesperson said: ‘We always strive to create inclusive campaigns and we stand firmly against any form of discrimination.’ Like all of us, but I thought inclusivity meant involving everyone and not just a minuscule percentage of the population.

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Why do Masterchef contestants say to Gregg Wallace: “Thank you chef”. The guy is not a chef and never has been. He spent much of his working life as a warehouseman at the fruit and vegetable market in New Covent Garden.

Selling food (and eating a lot of it) doesn’t measure up to how skilled people are at cooking it, which is why I never understood how Wallace ended up lording it over those whose culinary skills baffled him. hat.

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Is Keir Starmer making a new version of Around The World in 80 Days? I only ask because he has spent 22 days since September 1 jet-setting around the world to events that other world leaders did not consider important enough to attend.

If this country is in the hellish state that Starmer keeps telling us, why doesn’t he try to fix it instead of going to places like Azerbaijan, Samoa and Brazil where he promotes his own status but nothing for Britain reaches?

Because what this looks like is a guy who spent years in the shadows and is now determined to fulfill the role of international statesman, running around the world on taxpayer dollars in an attempt to appear important.

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Dogs are now racist in Wales, according to a frenzied new report (scandalously funded by the Welsh Government) from environmental group Climate Cymru BAME, which wants dogs banned from the countryside.

Among the recommendations is the creation of ‘dog-free areas’ in local green spaces to combat racism. Although the report doesn’t really elaborate on how the dog-free zones would promote inclusion and prevent racism.

It turns out that someone who compiled the report spoke to ‘one black African woman’ – they must have looked hard to find her as the percentage of black people in Wales is only 0.9% of the population – who said she felt unsafe in the presence of dogs.

What, so all dogs should be banned because one black woman is a little scared of them? No wonder Wales is barren and in disarray if the Labor government is wasting taxpayers’ money on this kind of nonsense!

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Jet2 had 79-year-old grandmother, Lily Ifield, arrested by Turkish armed officers because she refused to pay for what she called a “frozen tuna sandwich with mold on it” on the plane (to Bodrum) and drank duty-free liquor bought.

Okay, maybe Lily was playing games, maybe she was obnoxious to the staff, but she’s 79, needs a new knee and walks with a cane – how much of a nuisance could she cause? And aren’t armed officers overkill for a limping retiree? Jet2 must find less extreme ways to deal with difficult passengers

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The Stasi-style hate crime investigation into brilliant journalist Allison Pearson is not only horrifying, it’s a travesty that will resonate with tens of thousands of people across Britain – people who have tweeted or said something that someone else finds offensive and, before you can say something “Free speech is dead”, the toil is at your doorstep.

Allison was not told what the year-old offensive tweet was and thus had no chance to defend herself. What the hell is Britain becoming when someone can shout ‘hate crime’ with a grudge and someone else is criminalized for it.

Fortunately, Allison and her newspaper were able to fight back and expose the idiots at Essex Police who did this. And FYI, the Chief of the Force is a guy named Ben-Julian Harrington, who equates hate crime with rape and child molestation, so you can see where this is coming from. But people without influence or public profile are terrorized and traumatized by this kind of thing. It’s time for the police to go after burglars, shoplifters and violent criminals, not people who express an opinion.