Welby's Questionable Position

The wedge between England and Scotland seems to be getting driven further and further apart to the point now where the media picks up on anything which may enflame the situation and bring about a discussion about the future of the United Kingdom. This week, the Archbishop of the Church of England Justin Welby, made a comment about how the English have mistreated the Scots for the last 800 years, saying:
"And there is a miracle. It takes a lot to make the Scots willing to work with the English. Understandably... we have spent about 800 years ill-treating them."
Having seen the title of the article on the Daily Mail, I was chomping on the bit to explain why the English have not mistreated the Scots, but having read the article it was obvious that this was some sort of tongue in cheek comment made in passing, and not intended to try and demonise the English, which makes a change at least of the Political class.



Welby with his cool umbrella.

That been said, this article did at least draw my attention to Mr Welby who is, lets be honest, fairly forgettable unless you actually take the time to read up a bit about him.

So basically what I want to ask is not why or what the comments referring to England and Scotland's historic relationship has been like. What I want to ask is why this man who has been the treasurer for oil companies, and is currently still a member of the House of Lords, and a member of the panel for the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, giving talks to Iceland (of all nations) on the ethics and morals of finance.

You know, Iceland, the country that kind of did what was common sense and punished the greedy fat-cats who laid waste to the global economy.

In any case, you can read the kind of tosh the Archbishop said on this link, here.

What is ironic, is that it was only a few months ago that Welby was mentioning his outrage about pay-day loan companies charging thousands of per cent interest rates, whilst unbeknown to him (allegedly) , the church had actually had moneys invested in Wonga through other investment companies. Be interesting to find out if this investment was ever scrapped, or whether it was hoped people would conveniently forget.

Incidently as per usual, the church being forever known as the source of hypocracy and greed, a rather large percentage of the CofE investments are allowed to come from 'unethical' sources. You know, the sort of thing thats kind of ok, but a bit, well, dodge. Among these things would be things like alcohol sales, tobacco and 10 million pounds worth of money invested in the arms trade.

Now call me a cynic, but the fact that Welby was ever chosen as Archbishop at all considering all the recent anger towards the fiancial sector is slightly, well, a bit convenient. On the face of it this guy seems to be campaigning for help for the most vulnerable people, but generally speaking the solutions are almost always more integration into a global Governance, like what the Vatican advocates. Long story short, this guy was blatently head hunted for the position to act as the CEO of the Bank of England and a publicity front man for the banking sector all rolled into one.

Basically, he is there to make sure the people with money, keep making money. Using the church as an extention of the corporate/political class.

Basically, he's a cunt.