Friday 6 February 2015

Nun of the Above

No, of course Catholics are not going to stop voting Labour because Tristram Hunt made some remark about nuns.

Or for any other reason, come to that. And vote for whom instead, exactly? Have you ever met any British Catholic other than those employed by the Daily Telegraph?

There are now hardly any of them in the West, but nuns who teach are of course qualified teachers. Teachers in Catholic schools are mostly Labour voters, and disproportionately Labour Party members.

Hunt needs an eye kept on him. He needs a Minister of State who comes from the old Catholic working class, who is a practising Catholic product of the Catholic (convent?) school system, who had a distinguished career in the state education system before entering Parliament, whose Constituency Labour Party meets (for free, I think) in the Catholic church hall of a predominantly Catholic town, who is noted in Parliament as an expert on education, who held the pro-life line in this week's key vote, and who has been prominent in attacking the Durham Free School for being rubbish.

Where might such a person be found?

3 comments:

  1. If nuns didn't vote Labour, they'd vote Green. If Hunt has driven them anywhere, it'll be there.

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  2. As you said on Twitter, no one expects any surprises when the map of the most Catholic constituencies is coloured in on Election Night.

    Even staffing between the Church's national agencies and Labour is something of a revolving door. Increasingly true of the C of E too, I notice.

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