UK - Christian Influence Grows As Britian's Conservative Party Shifts Rightward

The article is paywalled, here is a working archive version.

In an article in the Financial Times, the increasing rise in christian extremism amongst Tory MP’s is noted. They quote MP Nick Fletcher:

“Fletcher is a proud evangelical Christian, and cites trans rights, conversion therapies, abortion, assisted dying and freedom of speech as topics where religious MPs “need to be able to talk about our faith”.”

They also note the rising prominence of Miriam Cates and Danny Kruger, co-chairs of the New Conservatives right-wing faction who we at GOS have talked about before and who have links to the influence and money that sibling organisations in the USA provide, a fact the Times also notes:

Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London, said the growing strain of evangelicalism in the Tory party, which he described as “an American import”, was particularly notable.

Cates and Kruger were part of a christian/right-wing conference last year (the National Conservatism Conference) where these evangelical ideas were expounded upon by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman, Micheal Gove, David Starkey (who said that left-wing activists are “jealous” of the Holocaust and that groups like Black Lives Matter were attempting to destroy “white culture”), anti-vaxx mouthpiece Melanie Phillips and Lee Anderson as well as speakers from the US arm of the movement such as Senator JD Vance. (Guardian article for more on this Conference)

All this against the backdrop in the UK of continual and notable decline in christianity in both people who identify as christians no longer being a majority of the population and the active decline in church attendance.

It’s amazing to us therefore that these MP’s have the hubris to believe they have a right to speak ‘for the people’ when they very clearly don’t and that they think they have the right to impose their superstitions on the rest of us. Especially since ‘the rest of us’ is now the majority of the country.

“…MPs also cited the role of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, a non-denominational Christian network founded in 1990 that “inspires and equips believers to go into public life”, as a key force in ushering in more Christians into the party’s elected ranks.”

Looking at the rise of the very extreme right wing based christianity in the US, this is not something we want here. We stand against it as Adversaries.