The Wardman Wire

The similarities between the two are startling:

• Both are leaders of large organisations with a penchant for telling people what is right and wrong and what they should do.
• Both are failing to provide any sort of clear leadership to their respective organisations.
• Both are ditherers, who just can’t make their mind up over important issues.
• And last but not least, both are being told by senior people within their own ranks that their position is “untenable“.

For the Archbishop of Canterbury, the issues all boil down to how progressive the Church of England should be: should they have women bishops or gay bishops? The more they argue and dither over an issue that the general public just can’t see any reason for an argument over. The Church used to be/claim to be the nations moral compass. But now, it is the nation which is way ahead of the Church. We believe in equality. Too many of them appear to be blinded by a few words in a book.

For the Prime Minister, the man who claimed to have a moral compass, the issues are instead based on competence - or, rather, lack thereof. He has failed to manage the economy and has refused to take any non-required opportunity to go to the people. You know you’re scewed when John Major is offering you sympathy…

Despite the differing issues, when it comes to taking decisions on them, Rowan Williams and Gordon Brown have taken precisely the same response: dither. And this is why they are both under fire from both outside their own organisations and from within.

The only question I now ask is: has anyone ever seen them together…?