I heard some of this on the news last night, and I thought that this really is the kind of thing we want an ARchbishop to do: "Asked on BBC2's Newsnight about the Conservative leader's pledge that 'I want yobs to fear the police', the archbishop replied: 'I think there are things we really ought to be afraid of. And talk about fear at that level perhaps doesn't get to the root causes. 'If you think about what actually threatens us, not only as a country but as a planet, that's the level I think we ought to be going to.'"
I pray that this voice may be heard and heard well. Of course the 'little' fears that the Tory campaign seems to be keying into are there but really they are doing proxy duty for the real big fears about the future of life on this planet and for civilisation as we know it. If only someone would have the political courgae to deal with those fears properly.
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Attacks on Tory politics of fear:
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