It's been quite a week for farce and PR in the Church of England, another week of victims of the Church being needlessly distressed by the C of E using the press for farce and PR under the guise of news.
We're told that the BBC have Justin Welby interviewing Tony Blair. The response from twitter, the thinkers in society is, where is the 'faith and morality in this, exactly?'
Justin Welby's Church is in a state of chaos and safeguarding is so bad that victims are being seriously harmed by Justin Welby's own safeguarding team, indeed Justin Welby has personally caused harm, homelessness and death. He has no pulpit to preach from in terms of morality, nor indeed faith, his example doesn't seem to be one of faith.
The BBC's demise will be through their own refusal to listen to public feeling. They have received enough complaints about Justin Welby playing the celebrity and hurting and angering people, re-abusing the victims of the Church as he struts around as if he's a star, when he's left his church in chaos and hurt and left the lives of abuse victims ruined.
If Tony Blair is a man of morals, he should refuse to take part in this farce, and should advise Mr Welby to return to the role which he was appointed to, and pay attention to that role and that role only, rather than stroking his vanity any more. Mr Welby isn't a celebrity, he's an oil baron chosen by certain people to presumably make sure the church voted for who they wanted in government (if you recall Mr Welby's smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn and support of PartyGate). He's not a Christian nor a good man, his senseless attacks on the feelings of the general public has pushed feelings of hatred for him to the limits, especially his recent defence of Boris Johnson and the bad behaviour of Downing Street and his nasty judgements about vaccine uptake.
While Justin Welby preens himself with the help of his sickeningly complicit BBC, victims of the Church suffer, neither Welby nor his senior clergy have been held accountable for the Winchester College matter, and I see the anguished tweets of one of the victims every time Welby flaunts his fake celebrity status. The Archbishop, and Church of England, which he seems singularly separate from, are cut off from the general public in England and of no relevance except the pain their interference in politics and abuse of the press causes.
People are bemoaning the current state of affairs in the UK, but Justin Welby has been behaving in this bad and callous way since 2013, and all complaints against him are ignored, he preens, he hides in his fortress and lets his staff handle the anger of the general public. Sadly for us, he has already started his mysterious pre-synod vanity stunt exhibition, brown-nosing the Queen to stay in favour.
The Church of England are not regulated, and the only points of authority over them are the Lords and Parliament, and the Charity Commission, who are failing to discipline or remove Welby for his abuse of his position to seek attention and fame for himself while neglecting his real duties.
Many many complaints have been made against Justin Welby, from the more serious ones relating to abuse, to his making a mockery of the church and Christianity and his outright nuisance and distress to the general public. The BBC apparently insist on upholding him because one of his family holds a position in the BBC, and the BBC fail to respond to complaints against him, in the same way that Justin Welby fails to respond to the abuse victims who his publicity campaigns harm.
Although people are laughing somewhat about Justin Welby interviewing anyone about faith and morality, subjects in which he has no expertise, the reality of what Justin Welby has done, deliberately, and harmed abuse victims with, is not funny.
People ask, why has so much time passed with nothing being done about Welby's free rein to cause distress? Well, if you look at what has become of the UK, things have been going downhill in all areas, governance, social care and medical care, why would the freefalling Church of England be singled out for accountability and proper regulation?
The IICSA was headed by members of the Church of England, the Charity Commission is conflicted by members with dual roles in the Church and Charity Commission, and they're afraid of the Archbishop's Lawyers. The House of Lords is full of conflicted and bad behaviour, so they're not sure what the fuss is about when incessant complaints are made about the House of Bishops. The Church of England is just one part of a nasty intermeshed melting pot of corruption in the highest places in the UK.
People are increasingly pointing out how Welby is a member of the 'World Economic Forum' who appear to have aims similar to the Nazi Regime, and who are nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity, how does he have time for everything but his church, when his church is in such crisis?
Although I don't support the 'Conservative Woman' News Site, because they can go to extremes, for example making France out to be an Islamist desert of burning churches, which it emphatically is not, they do have a readership of solid Christians who are horrified at Welby's seeming deliberate destruction of the Church of England as he fakes being a celebrity with the excuse of being an archbishop. If you look at the comments on this blog, they are similar to the thousands of comments on mainstream press articles from Christians and atheists alike when Justin Welby feels the need to open his mouth and put his foot in it:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/welbys-sickening-descent-into-the-covidian-cult/
Recently the Bishop of Winchester and his PR firm put on a Dying Swan production as his final service, releasing to the press about him breaking down, crying etc. He 'retired' as another PR firm-arranged idea when he was forced out of his Diocese by his clergy because he'd bullied and sacked so many clergy and laity, and yet he was able to stay on for a swan song, with no conscience or remorse. He was neither qualified nor ordained, and the appointments secretary who appointed him was sacked as a result, and still he managed a big weepy showy swan song, despite killing a vulnerable adult to silence them over abuse.
The Bishop of Winchester took his office under false pretences and is guilty of fraud and impersonating a clergyperson. The appointments officer who somehow managed to miss this was sacked. Tim Dakin spent most of his career having a vulnerable adult persecuted and publicly destroyed by press, public, clergy and laity after inexplicably deciding that the case was a publicity stunt, with no thought whatsoever for the vulnerable adult's safety.
As a result of the Bishop's actions, he managed to knock a powerful group of dignitaries, Lords, government members and other high-up persons, who had already firmly destroyed the vulnerable adult for reporting two serial abusers with powerful connections, the vulnerable adult was on the streets at the time as a result, utterly destroyed, and the Bishop publicly launched on her, destroying her rehabilitation and violently tearing her from her friends and evening classes and social groups with whom she was rebuilding her life despite still being a rough sleeper because of the severe trauma of the Church of England's actions against her, and for what? Reporting two serial abusers who the church protected.
Despite what appeared to be an attempt by Bishop Tim Dakin to kill an abuse survivor outright by lies published in the form of a report, she simply left the community where she was sleeping rough and endured the next phase of her rehabilitation in a rough lodging house where she was the only woman among men with serious problems.
As the onslaught against her by the press and public continued, she suffered assaults and hatred as a result of being the scapegoat in the war between the Bishop and the dignitaries he'd upset. The Archbishop was actively in support of the Bishop of Winchester's serious misconduct to the point of protecting him against a clergy discipline measure brought by the victim against the Bishop, and openly influencing the matter on behalf of the powers in the Lords and other places who supported the dignitaries and wrongdoers, to the point where the Archbishop was made to apologize to the wrongdoers.
A lot of false and conflicted reports were produced on the matter, openly conflicted and untrue, and the victim continued to plead with Tim Dakin for mercy and justice as her life and name were damaged beyond hope and she suffered horribly. He threatened her, using the unjust previous action of the church where they had tried to silence her through the police when she reported the serial abusers who had groomed and abused her and who were known to the church as abusers, she asked his clergy for help and they, led by Moira Murray, one of the 'safeguarding' representatives hired by the Archbishop to silence victims and prevent scandal, launched on her themselves.
The victim continued, quite rightly, to ask for justice despite the church abusing their power to use social services, NHS, police and safeguarding to dismiss her as mad and trouble - (as has been seen in the Kendal House Victims' case and is ongoing there) and the Bishop of Winchester, having openly broken the law and the injunction the victim brought against him, abused his power to use the police to arrest her on the grounds of lies, she was violently brutalized by the police, whose culture it is to use needless violence when they know they can get away with it, and left utterly destroyed and without her work or home, again separated from friends, community and volunteer work. No disciplinary action was taken against either against the police, the Bishop or his wife and daughter who lied to the police and claimed groundlessly and without evidence, that the victim was harassing them. There would be no way a human being could survive this. Patricia Marshall, Jane Fisher and Jackie Rowlands, Safeguarding representatives, played a major part in this as well, but have not been fully held to account.
It was only when his own clergy and staff got tired of the Bishop abusing them, and not a one of them suffered the way the victim did, that they stood up to him and forced him out and he did a PR retirement which again brought up Press false reporting on the victim's case and harmed her again, as his 'dying swan' self-pitying act recently has. It says a lot for the lack of empathy, awareness and safeguarding in the Church of England. This man acts as if he has something to weep about when he made a vulnerable disabled woman scream with anguish for years as he destroyed her.
The dying swan act has of course raised the press's inaccurate coverage of the matter again, harming those close to the victim killed by Tim Dakin and Justin Welby's actions. Among those who feed the inaccuracies to the press is hate cleric Gavin Ashenden, who, when he was in the Church of England, abused his positions as clergy, lawyer and public speaker to interfere in the investigations and to attack, lie about and defame the victim on the radio and in the press, he never met the victim nor heard her story but has gone on using the victim as a pawn in his hatred for the Bishop of Winchester who dismissed him.
He has been reported to the safeguarding departments of the Catholic Church who he defected to after church hopping when he was dismissed from his Queen's Chaplain and other Church of England positions. Astonishingly, Ashenden, with his hatred for all vulnerable groups and his public attacks and unChristian behaviour, has actually claimed to be an 'advocate' for Church of England abuse victims now that he's 'Catholic' and while he is continuing to cause harm and distress to the loved ones of the victim who he helped Tim Dakin to destroy and ultimately kill. No genuine report has been carried out into the case, just falsehood and conflicted whitewash lies flung into the public eye. Ashenden's motive is petty hatred against the Bishop for making the case public and also asking Ashenden to leave.
So, in summary, this week, Justin Welby is interviewing a colleague of his, Tony Blair, from the World Economic Forum. He's doing so as if the seriousness of the collapse of his church, which led to the Tim Dakin situation and John Smyth causing the death of another abuse victim in Africa are irrelevant. Tim Dakin had no right to fake retirement and a song and dance swan song, he should have been dismissed in 2013 when his actions harmed a vulnerable adult, the fact that Justin Welby not only looked on but aided that harm while using the press to try to be a celebrity, the fact that Justin Welby remains and isn't removed, is ludicrous. Ashenden needs to be controlled and taught what his parents forgot to teach him about, decency. And the Church of England need to be regulated.
Welby should follow Dakin out the door and let it hit his behind on the way, he shouldn't have allowed Dakin to be ordained nor to remain when he was reported for his actions, Welby should have stopped the harm to the victim and not enhanced it, and he has certainly been very quiet about the farce 'retirement' and his appointment of conflicted and unsuitable overseers of the Diocese as a result. These conflicted complicit and unsuitable overseers are part of the cover-up.
Tim Dakin's self pitying Swan song has kicked off the vicious abuser, Gavin Ashenden and the press in lies and assumptions about Tim Dakin's victim, leaving those who knew her, harmed again.
This matter has been years awaiting investigation while Justin Welby has stroked his vanity in the most terrible ways and abused the press and the general public, the Bishop of Winchester has kept his lavish lifestyle and done a dying Swan act after rightly but belatedly being removed, and Gavin Ashenden has gone on scapegoating a vulnerable adult and lying about the case at the expense of the victim unchecked. And still there has been no proper investigation.
Recently one of the pack of dogs journalists, Gary Burgess, who aided the church in destroying their victim, has been lauded as 'renowned' and similar. When ITV received complaints about him, he should have been sacked, years ago. He is only 'renowned' because Channel Islands and UK reporting is truly in the gutter, why renowned for killing a vulnerable adult publicly and without motive but spurred on to do so by Lambeth Palace, Luther Pendragon and the Diocese of Winchester?
All the poor reporting is the responsibility of the Church of England, all the harm and lies, down to Stephen Parsons and his pack of bored hangers on supporting the 'poor old Bishop' whose conscience was so lacking that he failed to be responsible for his actions and tried to make the victim responsible, and the Jersey Evening Post, a rag paper that the island reviles but which is overseen by the brother of one of the serial abusers of Bishop Dakin's victim and who have waged an all-out war on the victim.
The ongoing lies about the case and the victim after her destruction are a serious safeguarding failure and still the responsibility of the Archbishop of Canterbury and church of England, and in the case of Gavin Ashenden, the Catholic Church, who have received complaints and failed to act, making Ashenden's hatred and lies and abuse of the press an ever increasing safeguarding failure.
As Mr Welby starts his charm offensive pre synod, the national safeguarding team are being allowed to make a defence to the synod for their consistent and life-endangering failures but the synod are banned from debating this. Safeguarding in the church of England amounts to the opposite, and many are sickened by the press show while victims suffer. Mr Welbys needs to address his responsibilities and stop showing off.
The Church of England live in a long ago age when the kind of slimy charisma of Welby, Dakin and their ilk is supposed to fool people into thinking they are 'Decent People Really'. A bit like 'Boris is Doing His Best' (nauseating thumbs up to accompany). Along with the repetitive 'use an animal to gain the public's affection and the rest of the 'Down to earth home people' show, but they don't seem to realize that only those with rather empty heads fall for this, most people know and are not happy about the unregulated and harmful Church, and after such a huge mess as Winchester, the Archbishop should be focused solely on what's gone wrong since 2013 and not his own vanity.
John Carter