Archbishop of Canterbury

The world stinks.

It makes you wonder about these liberal intellectuals who lecture us on morals.
Here we have another sanctimonious clown promoted above his ability, sounding off to draw attention to himself and putting his foot right in it.

All religions are full of hypocrisy. I would have more respect for them if they made a stance and showed some moral scruples by withdrawing their investments in the company. This goes for all religions. One religion is totally against booze and gambling, which is fair enough if that is what they believe, but how do they make their money in their shops? Yes, you guessed, by selling alcohol and Lottery tickets.

There are ethical funds.  You would imagine that the Church invests its money in 'ethical' companies, or at least companies which its head honcho doesn't openly criticise.  The stuff about criticising companies from within might be valid if the Church can prove that their investment managers criticised the Amazon board and suggested to them that they should pay their staff more and give them better working conditions and therefore make less profit.

With regard to zero hours contracts, you might imagine that the top vicar would ensure that his own organisation don't use them before mouthing off.

Biggest Land owner - more than Liz !

I agree with the Archbishop on this occasion , although he may very well be a buffoon as you say dr crippen

Anyone delivering a public statement ESPECIALLY if you're the AoC must do some homework before gobbing off like this. Ignorance of who the CofE invests in is no excuse.

He's gone all political, taking sides when he shouldn't. He made clear his opposition to leaving the EU for example.

Countless other issues he could address but instead he just trots out the 'give people more money' line. Tiresome.

He remains silent on the future of a Christian Britain and like his pal Corbyn & Merkel would welcome half of the Middle East and Africa here.

As regards immigration etc it’s for the church to take a kind and loving stance , that is their job and is why we should not be too quick to elect do gooders into parliament , they are forever looking for duties and good deeds that they feel must be done no matter how disagreeable


But it’s the rest of us who have to fulfill those disagreeable duties
That’s not good

Kind and loving to whom? To this country, aware of our heritage and faith or kind and loving to those who do and will change this nation forever?

As has been stated the C of  E and Amazon have 2 things in common. They're both worth billions and both employ people on low pay and zero hour contracts.

In some ways I’m in favour of it

The Church - easy job - free house - flexy hours - very rich and still they send out the begging bowl for the leaky roof and the gullible still fall for it after 2000 years.

don't they ever* read that part of the bible

"A statement from the CofE said it considered the most effective way to seek change was to be "in the room with these companies" as a shareholder."

Fair enough - can they give examples where they have done this then?

The majority of people on zero hour contracts are happy with them and don't want more hours.

It just goes to show how the church has become a sad place for left wing pillocks that they are parroting the Labour/Trade union line on that.

As if they were fjords.

deary me I’ve heard it all now ( dr crippen thinks he’s a real dr as well )

That's twice I've noticed you've made unprovoked comments of that nature about me.

What's your problem?

absolutely sick to the back teeth of people in the media,mp,s, pundits commenting on zero hours contracts when they don't understand them the latest been theo pap on question time who said he asked his head of HR that very day and asked how many were on them and why, he was told they had them because those on them wanted them,thats all fine and dandy theo the problem arises when your employer who wants 8 hrs a day 2 days a week,gets a tap on the shoulder after 4 hrs on day one saying that's it for this week we don't need you anymore .stand by your phone we might need you next week, and you get paid 4 hrs

these big Tesco,asda,amazon,sports direct warehouse,s are rife with it


there was even a snowflake pundit on lastweek using muscians.people in show business as examples of zero hr,s contracts,these people in the main are not on zero hr,s contracts but are freelances hiring out their skills,

if  theo and his company and  are happy for their workers to work the days they want that's not a problem if it suits everyone but these arnt zero hr contracts but workers and employee,s using flexi working hrs to suit all parties,

these people are either ignorant on the subject or lying, they use zero hr contracts to save on holiday,sick money,pension contributions etc,etc not to give theo,s piano tuner a choice of what day he works

theo asked his hr dept because he knew he was going to be asked about it on question time

good prep by him

Majority of peole on zero hour contacts are happy on them and don't want more hours. No amount of leftie angst can change the facts.

I worked years on zero hour contracts and would be very angry if some idiot left wing scumbag from the 70s like corbyn/mcdonnell, or that stupid woman from that trade union wanted to interfere between a consenting working relationship between me and the people paying me, and ban them.

Who the hell do these people think they are?

LETRS WRITE THIS VERY SLOWLY
in its simplest format a zero hours worker is one who goes to work at a warehouse,pub, etc expecting to work say 2 8 shifts mon,tues, but after an hours work on the Monday he/she gets a tap on the shoulder saying a  delivery,s not arrived. the pubs quiet tonight get yourself home I,ll pay you for the hours work forget about tomoprrow andi,ll give you a ring next week,

think marlon brando on the waterfront from 60 years ago