(Sorry, they went of their own accord but I couldn’t resist the misleading headline. Maybe I should work for the Fail.) Another church minister has resigned in embarrassment over the CofE’s behaviour over the St Paul’s anti-capitalism camp. A part-time chaplain <\/a> resigned, shortly after canon Giles Fraser’s resignation the other day.
\nWhile the Church of England is siding wholeheartedly with Mammon, for fear of losing \u00a320k a day from the sale of cathedral trinkets, it seems that there may be a few of its staff who aren’t comfortable about the alliance. Maybe they thought the terms and conditions of their job included siding with the poor. In that case, I’d love to see the industrial tribunal case that would take place if they were to claim “constructive dismissal”.
\nIt still somehow seems a bit shocking – despite the evidence of centuries – that the Church of England should be behaving quite so shamelessly as “the Tory party” at prayer.
\nUnfortunately for the powers at the Cathedral, their moves towards bailiffs and evictions came at the same time that the salaries of FTSE 400 directors were reported to have risen by 50% in the last year, at a time when everybody else is getting poorer at a rate of knots. Maybe the Cathedral bosses naively believe that this tiny minority of mega rich will happily spend some of their windfall millions in the cathedral gift shop.
\nSt Paul’s has claimed<\/p>\n

\n
• that they’d had to close the Cathedral on the grounds of “health and safety”. This is no blatant a misuse of the ideas of health and safety laws that you’d think the Daily Mail et al<\/em> would be raging about “health and safety nazis” in St Paul’s. (Well. OK, you would never think that, to be honest.)<\/li>\n
• that people might trip over tents on their way to pray<\/li>\n
• that the cathedral is doing loads of good things for the poor in any case, so the protests were actually hurting the poor by stopping them getting in the wads of cash to do the aforementioned good things <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  This nonsense was clearly an embarrassment to those few clergy who had thought they were supposed to do something for society besides look after national monuments. Idealistic fools, who didn’t understand that they work for the big banks.
  \nA commenter on Marina Hyde’s CIF column<\/a> said:<\/p>\n

  Financial supporters of St. Paul’s Cathedral include:
  \nLloyds TSB Group plc, Goldman Sachs International, UBS Investment Bank, N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd, Prudential Plc, J.P. Morgan, London Stock Exchange, HSBC Holdings Plc, etc. Is it a case of “follow the money”? http:\/\/www.stpauls.co.uk\/Support-St-Pauls\/Our-Supporters\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  So I followed it:<\/p>\n

  300th Anniversary Campaign 2000 \u2013 2008
  \nThe Dean and Chapter would like to thank all those who contributed to our \u00a340 million campaign to conserve and restore St Paul\u2019s Cathedral in celebration of the cathedral\u2019s 300th anniversary.
  \nWe would specifically like to thank:
  \nRobin Fleming and Family
  \nSir Paul and Lady Getty
  \nThe Garfield Weston Foundation
  \nThe City Bridge Trust
  \nThe St Paul\u2019s Cathedral Trust in America
  \nThe Lennox Hannay Charitable Foundation
  \nThe Cadogan Charity
  \nLloyds TSB Group plc
  \nAn Independent Trust Associated with Barclays
  \nCity of London Corporation
  \nCity of London Endowment Trust
  \nThe Schroder Foundation
  \nGoldman Sachs International
  \nMark Pigott OBE
  \nThe Wolfson Foundation
  \nThe Garfield Weston Trust for St Paul\u2019s Cathedral
  \nThe Worshipful Company of Mercers
  \nThe Sunley Foundation
  \nUBS Investment Bank
  \nMr Richard & Miss Clementine Hambro
  \nMcKinsey & Company
  \nRoger Gabb
  \nThe Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust
  \nCHK Charities Ltd
  \nDavid Mayhew CBE
  \nN M Rothschild & Sons Ltd
  \nSir Brian Williamson CBE
  \n29thMay 1961 Charitable Trust
  \nDr Yury Beylin
  \nBrunswick Group
  \nMr and Mrs William R Miller CBE
  \nLennox and Wyfold Foundation
  \nHugh & Catherine Stevenson
  \nSkandinaviska Enskilda Bank
  \nRoger Carlsson
  \nThe Clothworkers\u2019 Foundation
  \nThe Headley Trust
  \nNicholas Oppenheimer
  \nPrudential Plc
  \nSimon & Virginia Robertson
  \nThe Capital Group
  \nLexicon Partners
  \nSlaughter & May
  \nBarry Bateman
  \nCharterhouse Capital Partners LLP
  \nCinven
  \nCognetas
  \nElectra Partners LLP
  \nLand Securities
  \nStandard Chartered Plc
  \nJPMorgan Cazenove
  \nJ.P. Morgan
  \nCantor Fitzgerald L.P.
  \nBGC Partners
  \nDulverton Trust
  \nCMS Cameron McKenna LLP
  \nThe Freemasons\u2019 Grand Charity
  \nDavid Barnett
  \nLen Blavatnik
  \nCanary Wharf Group Plc
  \nLord Cockfield Memorial Trust
  \nThe Drapers\u2019 Company
  \nMan Group Plc Charitable Trust
  \nLondon Stock Exchange
  \nThe Worshipful Company of Grocers
  \nStewart Newton
  \nSir David Walker
  \nSir Roger & Lady Gibbs
  \nSir Robert & Lady Finch
  \nPeter and Stephanie Chapman
  \nFidelity UK Foundation
  \nEnglish Heritage
  \nWyfold Foundation
  \nAmerican Express
  \nThe Coutts Charitable Trust
  \nThe British Land Company Plc
  \nHSBC Holdings Plc
  \nMorden College
  \nAldgate & All Hallows Barking Exhibition Foundation
  \nJon B Lovelace
  \nRichard & Ellen Sandor Family Foundation
  \nThe Scholl Foundation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  \u00a340 million towards the upkeep. <\/p>\n

  plus thry have ongoing Corporate Partners<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

  Lloyds Banking Group
  \nFidelity Investment Managers
  \nCMS Cameron McKenna
  \nLondon Stock Exchange
  \nSarasin & Partners
  \nBGC Partners<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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