Jesus-lite man

I notice that lots of yer actual Xtians on twitter seem irritated by Cameron’s statement yesterday. Certainly, you’d have to be a Zen Buddhist to figure out how Dave can be both a committed and non-practicing Christian.

But that’s the thing. The market here isn’t believers but people who like to see their kids in traditional nativity plays in cosy little primary school halls, and who are thus reassured by the PM’s affirmation of spiritual values of their own centrality to events in our Island Story. In short, it’s another stage in Cameron’s intermittent attempts to establish a social base for himself and identify the specific ‘Cameron voter’ to others. I don’t know what you’d call such people, but the phrase Innocent Smoothies somehow springs to mind.

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[Cian]

dog whistle stuff, no? British values, keep out the darkies/evil progressives/whatever.

[A Different Alex]

Well, it got Portillo to start ranting incoherently about how You Can't Say Christmas Anymore:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16231223

However, I thought the market was "Broken Britain" types - as the cut drive ever deeper, and people tart getting restless, the hard right will start calling for a crackdown.

[nick s]

I thought 'committed and non-practicing' was the motto of the C of E.

[A Different Alex]

No, other way round - "practicing and uncommitted".

[Chris Brooke]

As the old joke has it, the best thing about the C of E, is that you can believe anything at all. The worst is that nobody does.

[Strategist]

>>>it’s another stage in Cameron’s intermittent attempts to establish a social base for himself and identify the specific ‘Cameron voter’ to others

His next step is to organise the Innocent Smoothies into street squads and arm them.
http://stefanferreira.com/claphams-cleaning-army