WESTMINSTER GOVERNMENT IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF DELIVERING A SOCIALLY JUST AND EQUITABLE SOCIETY - CHURCH OF SCOTLAND LEADER. If the people of Scotland vote yes then the coalition will have done much to encourage that result. The unequal imposition of austerity since 2010 has been noticed by voters north of the border.The Church of Scotland has decided to remain neutral,but influential members of the Kirk deeply committed to social justice, including the leader of the Iona Community Peter MacDonald, are expressing the concerns of many of us who work with and for the poorest citizens of England, and voting yes. He said I no longer believe the Westminster Government is capable of delivering the socially just and equitable society in which I want to live. The British state no longer serves the needs of all its people. Economic policies have favoured the wealthy who have grown richer, and stigmatised the poor and vulnerable who are paying for the failures of the private financial sector. If Scotland votes no these failings of the Westminster Government will still exist. Rev Paul Nicolson sundaypost/news-views/scotland/independence-referendum/over-30-kirk-leaders-back-yes-vote-1.539653 TO WHAT EXTENT ARE THE CHURCHES COMPLICIT IN THE POOR BECOMING MUCH POORER IN THE UK? Letter in The Tablet - 30th August 2014 Promises, promises 28 August 2014 Your leader (23 August) states that “Promises don’t put food on the table.” The uncomfortable question is: to what extent are the Churches complicit in the poor becoming much poorer? The demand for food banks and credit unions can only increase until the Churches apply the preferential option for the poor, understand their circumstances and tackle the cumulative impact of decades of structural injustice. Perhaps our ineffectiveness is because so many members of Christian congregations do not understand the impact of being made homeless by a local authority, moved into private rented accommodation and being obliged to move eight times since 2002. That happened to a single mother with three young children I have met. Or the impact of having their benefit income capped at £500 a week, which caps housing benefit at 50p and forces them to pay £282 a week of that £500 in rent, like a single mother with seven young children I have also met. --
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