YES To AV.

Give Me The Letter "A."

Then Give Me The Letter "V."

By Uncle Monty.

Lead Graphic By Alex Albion.

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YES To The UK Alternative Vote (AV).

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:: STORY UPDATE ::
By Allegra Stratton.
1. AV referendum: "Yes" campaign handed thumping defeat.
2. "No" campaign establishes unassailable lead of 69% to 31%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/06/av-over-yes-campaign-routed
May 7, 2011.
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Let us try the Alternative Vote (AV)

for the next three general elections and then

determine if it is a better system than the one

we have right now of first-past-the-post

in the UK.

...

For all too long the members and supporters

of the three mainline British parties - Tories,

Labourites, and Lib-Dems - have held a

monopoly on political power and parliamentary

representation at the expense of other voices

and the aspirations of small parties and their

candidates to be heard and recognized

inside today's House of Commons.

...

Whatever the pros and cons are said to

 be for and against the May 5th, 2011,

Alternative Vote (AV) Referendum to re-

place the present UK voting system, I

shall be firmly voting YES!!

...

What I like about voting Yes to the AV is

precisely because is is an alternative to

what we have.

...

While I politically loathe Nick Clegg, who has instigated

and started the AV Referendum, I am voting Yes for

AV and most ceertainly not for him. The same is true

of hideous loser Red Ken Livingstone, who is once

again running against good Mayor of London Boris

 Johnson, in his (Red Ken's) endorsement of the AV

 Referendum. I loathe him as a political creep on apar

with my utter distaste for vile and treacherous Tony

Blair. The AV Referendum is not based on poltical

personalities, but on raw political change that is so

very much needed in today's Broken Britain.
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A ‘yes’ to voting reform could be death
for Mr Cameron. By Iain Martin.
http://agora-dialogue.com/?p=19196
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So to truly appreciate the AV Referendum is to dismiss

such personalities per se and to see instead the rotten

politics that has been cultivated for keeps under our

 present and detrimental system of first-past-the-post.

Some say the AV electoral count and process is too

cumbersome compared to what we have right now.

It matters not one itoa how cumbersome the new

process may or may not be, but rather how fair and

proper we elect those candidates who don't

represent just the three mainline parties.

...

Loud screams that the British National Party

(BNP) could win seats under the AV system is

pure hysteria by those against the BNP or against

any change which dilutes the power and control

over the British Parliament by those three

 entrenched national parties that serve themselves

first more often than those with differing opinions

and smaller voices among the UK electorate.

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Inexplicably, BNP chairman and elected MEP
 Nick Griffin, has come out strongly against the YES
 Vote for the AV Referendum. Pity! But Nick's
opposition to AV I think is perhaps based as much
on his very personal and utter political dislike for the
 ilk of Clegg and Livingstone and the origin of the AV
 coming from the almost far left, instead of coming
from the traditional right, that Nick Griffin feels so
compelled to yell and support the "No" to AV

Referendum. To vote either way for AV

should not be based on personalities, as I

said before, or whether or not we like or

dislike Griffin, Clegg, Livingstone and/or Blair.

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"The BNP are campaigning against AV.  I would
suggest that one reason why the BNP are against
AV is that they ... It's Confirmed – BNP to
support 'No to AV' vote in Referendum ..."
http://isupportav.co.uk/2010/11/the-bnp-are-campaigning-against-av/
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Under AV, we can also see how other indvidiuals

from the far left, and not just from the far right, could

also be voted in. That's fine with me no matter if I

 strongly disagree with a particular elected member

based on his or her politics. The more of a mix of

parliamentary representives we have then more

the better I say.

....

The middle ground is middle politics and that is

fine with the middle class voter. But not with

me and millions like me who are tired of all the

 middle and muddle that comes with such a

passive mass so evident all around us from

partliament to mass immigration to education
 and to political representation. We need to try

something else and I think YES to the AV

 Referendum would bring about that needed

urgent change for a positive change!!

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Vote "YES" To AV.

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And so, let's try it, has I've said, for at least the

next three general elections and then determine

if we should try something else or revert back

 to what we now have of first-past-the-post.
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'A referendum? Really?' Apathy and anger
dominate as AV decision looms. Both camps
struggle to convince voters of importance of
5 May poll – in town that would have had
a different MP under AV.
By Caroline Davies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/15/alternative-vote-referendum-chesterfield
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As a stictly independent voter that I am, I

favour YES because I think AV provides

a sound and exciting vehicle to those of us

who are independent voters outside the three

national parties in the UK. And, who are also
alienated at the present lopsided representation
 by the powerful lobbies and connected people

inside our present parliament. Anything

that gives the independent voter a greater

 say in running the country and possibly deter-

mining its future course should be welcome

 in any democracy no matter how facile our

parliament really is to those with big money

and big voices and big self-interests, along

with it being so frigid at times and completely

out of touch on major burning issues such

as mass immigration, negative welfare, and

the wholesale waste of taxpayer money by
such quangos as Equalities and Human Rights
Commission (EHRC) that spends millions on
 its tyrannical agenda to enforce its unelected
power on the people who oppose the trouble-
makers like the ilk of vile Trevor Phillips
and Simon Whoolley.

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YES then to AV, I say once again.

May 5th, 2011, is an historic opportunity

and moment for the British Electorate to

 vote YES for the Alternative Vote (AV)

Referendum and to change the way we

elect office holders in the future and not

just those who can mount votes to be

elected safely and repeatedly under
 first-past-the-post (FPTP).

...

Most other countries would never give its

citizens the opportunity or the change to re-

place their establish political voting systems

by such an AV concept. We can and we

should vote one way or another at such an

 historic moment. Such will be even more

 historic if the majority of voters vote YES to

 AV like I most certainly will without a doubt.

...

Indeed, I may even seriously consider running

for office myself as an independent candidate, if

the YES vote prevails. I would feel I have then

 a better chance of being elected and of show-

ing my fellow countrymen and women that I

can ably represent them as any present day

sitting first-past-the-post Member of Parliament

inside our rather closed and carefully controlled

British House of Commons that works, all too
often, against the true will of the English people.

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London has the power to swing result of AV referendum

By Craig Wooshouse.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23940931-voting-reform-rivals-clash-over-funding.do

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I Love Alternative Voting.

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The Times Letter to the Editor.

AV 'would usher in extremist parties'.

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Sir, We will vote "No" on May 5 because we

 think AV is less fair than our current system and

that it will provide an opportunity for extremist

 parties such as the BNP (British Nationalist Party)

and Respect to increase their vote, become

more influential and legitimise in their

participation in mainstream British politics.

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Under first-past-the-post (FPTP), everyone

is entitled to a vote and the BNP has never

been elected to Parliament. In (Chairman) Nick

 Griffin's words, for the BNP "to continue fighing

first-past-the-post elections and securing an ever-

dwindling vote is simply a recipe for demoralisation

and failure." The BNP has long complained that

FPTP puts the party at a "hugely unfair

disadvantage".

...

AV would provide oxygen to groups such as the

BNP and Respect. While we hope that they would

still not win seats, AV would certainly give such

extremists a bigger platform, with more votes,

 more attention, and more legitimacy. AV could

lead to BNP MPs if, as Nick Griffin and the

"Yes" campaign want, this becomes a "step in the

 right direction" to proportional representation.

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The Undersigned Are:

Cllr NILGUN CANVER, Chair, Labour Friends of Turkey;

SIR TREVOR CHINN, Jewish Leadership Council;

STEPHEN CHUNG, Solicitor, Manchester;

RICHARD HARRINGTON MP; TONY IP,

Chairman, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, UK;

LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE; SEN

KANDIAH, Chair, Tamils for Labour;

ZAKIR KHAN, Conservative Friends of

Bangladesh; ABBY KING KHAWAJA,

Conservative Arab Group; KWASI KWARTENG

MP; KAM LEE, Chair, Conservative Chinese Group;

SONNY LEONG, Chairman, Chinese for Labour;

KHALID MAHMOOD MP; PRITI PATEL MP;

 STUART POLAK, Director, Conservative Friends

 of Israel; LORD POPAT; DR RAMI RANGER,

Chairman, British Sikh Association; PATRICK

 RATNARAJA, Vice-Chairman, British Tamil

Conservatives, and KEITH VAZ MP.

April 1st, 2011.
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:: My Online Reply To The Times Letter ::

By Uncle Monty.

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Not one of the above signatories is an indepen-

dent voter like me. They all have some political,

religious, and/or social axe to grind  against AV.

What they fail to note is that BNP's Nick Griffin

has come out strongly AGAINST the AV "YES"

 vote. Thus the point of their Times letter is largely

mute at this point. Also, it is extraordinary to find

so many foreign names gathered to sign against

 the vote "Yes" to AV in the UK that is amply
confirmed by the alien names given and signed
by the almost 20 signatories.  Each of them are

 clearly vested representatives for the status
 quo. They have no desire or inclination or im-
agination to vote beyond their horse blinkers.
I'm wondering, too, if the foreign-born or
immigrants are those most opposed to AV?
It's a UK decision, not a foreign one, to de-
termine the outcome of the AV Referendum.
...

The MPs included in the above letter are,
of course, those who have already gotten in
 under the first-past-the-post system. So they
have a vested interest in retaining such a system
for themselves. As for the BNP and Respect

gaining some advantage if the AV becomes law,

 then so be it. The wider the political spectrum

more the better. Those presently entrenched

 political and mainstream representatives

should not be allowed unabatedly to go on

and on unchallenged. For all too long, they
have been a kind of law unto themselves

and it's about time they were made to sit

 up and not take for granted their unques-

tioned "eliteist position" in British politics.
They think they're some how entitled
because they first got elected under first-
past-the-post and so anything that disturbs
 their chances of re-election under a new
system like the AV, frightens the living devil
out of them. Let them be frightened, I say!!

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As a strictly independent voter, I

again state I shall vote "YES" for the

Alternative Vote (AV)  Referendum come

May 5th, 2011 via my mailed ballot. To hell,

then, with FPTP. So, please give me the letter 

"A," then the letter "V," is what I say as a

registered and active British voter.

It's YES for me to AV!!

...

Truly, Uncle Monty.

+Eve of Palm Sunday, 2011.

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"YES" To AV!

Alternative Vote - About my vote.

There are currently 650 constituencies across the UK,

each with one MP.  How to vote ... A UK-wide refer-
endum on the voting system used to elect MPs to the ...

UK Referendum 2011.  All you need to know
about voting in the UK-wide 2011 referendum.
http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/
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UKIP attracts anti-immigrant vote as
polite alternative to BNP.  By Nigel Morris.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-attracts-antiimmigrant-vote-as-polite-alternative-to-bnp-2268617.html
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Anglo-Saxon Coins.

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From Anglo-Saxon To Victorian English Coins.

By Uncle Monty.

Illustrations By Coin Book Author.

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In 1890, now over 120 years ago, Llewellynn Jewitt,

F.S.A. wrote his little handbook entitled "English Coins

And Tokens" that was published in London by Swan

Sonnenschein & Co. for 1 shilling in hardback
with 128pp. in its third edition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llewellyn_Jewitt
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I found and bought Jewitt's gem for a British fiver
at Hastings while rummaging for old books at a junk

shop there last week. It is now the oldest book I have
 on old English and world coins among my small but
rather select collection of such. Indeed, Llewellynn
 Jewitt's book is valued as abit of a rarity in itself at
 the list prices of between 13 to 38 quid thesedays
depending, of course, on the degree of foxing,
damage, and overall book condition.

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Rare Coin Specimens of Only

 20 of Charles II (1660 to 1685)

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With over 235 engraved black and white miniature

illustrations of British Anglo-Saxon to Victorian coins

 (as seen in the above lead illustration of the Victorian

"Gothic" coins) and 17th century traders' tokens, the

Jewitt book is a rare treasure for those like me who

love old coins of every kind. But most especially for

 me of those coins of the old English and Colonial 

American type. The book is written primarily for

The Young Collector, so the cover says, yet the

 information and details included in his now quite 

rare handbook are sophisticated beyond the years

 of most young coin collectors of both those of 120 

years ago or of today's young 21st century

numismatists.

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 As an advanced coin collector myself, I have learned

so much I didn't know about Anglo-Saxon coinage

and coin mintage and issues under the various kings

and queens of England thanks to Jewitt's deep and

wide knowledge imparted in his serious and rather

 readable coin handbook of 1890.

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English Gold Coins - Edward III (1327 to 1377)

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Among the things I learned from Jewitt's coin book

included some new knowledge of the following

such as gun money and rare mintmarks. Also I

learned that some 60 to 70 different places of

coin mintage was common in the 12th to 14th

centuries inside old Albion or Britain. As for

Henry II (1145-1189), only sliver pennies were

minted, while silver halfpennies and pennies

were minted under Richard I (1189-1199).

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Under King John (1199-1216), no English

coins are known to have been minted during

his reign. Short-cross pennies of Henry II,

however, continued to be minted during

John's 17 years on the British Throne.

While in Ireland, halfpennies and farthings

were minted of John's reign. So states

Llewellynn Jewitt's fascinating handbook.

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Significantly under Henry III of England

(1207-1272) the first gold coins - The

 Gold Penny  - were the first by any English

 monarch. After Henry III, no gold coins

 were minted in England until Edward III

(1327-1377).  In other words, for

 almost 60 years, no English gold

coins were minted.

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Anglo-Saxon Pennies Under

Mercian King Offa (757 to 796)

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Under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell (1653 to

1658), Gold Fifty-shilling, Broad or Twenty shilling, and

 half-Broad or Ten shilling issues appeared. Also silver

ninepence and sixpence coins were put in circulation.

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Followed by Charles II (1660 to 1685), that saw the

mintage of gold Five-Guinea-piece, Two-Guinea piece,

One Guinea, and Half-Guinea. Also the copper and

 tin farthing become commonplace.

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James II (1685-1689) saw the rise of what was called

 "Gun Money" during his very short reign of four years.

Llewellynn Jewitt spells out the meaning of English Gun

Money: "Silver being scarce in this reign, an issue of

base money was restored to, some of which, being

struck from old cannon and domestic utensils melted

 down, is called 'Gun Money.'"

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Then we had the crazy George III (1760 to 1820) in whch

gold Third-of-guinea or Seven-shilling piece (7s.), Quarter-

of-guinea (5s. 3d), Sovereign (20s.) and Half-sovereign

(10s.) existed in his 60 year reign until the second decade

of the 19th century. Again with the great problem of silver

scarcity in 1797, it reached the point of using "Spanish

dollars and half-dollars that were countermarked with a

small punch of the king's head and put in circulation as

current coin value of 4 shillings and 9 pence," notes

 Jewitt. The Spanish dollars and half dollars were soon

 plagued by counterfeit stamp marks and so in 1804 a

new dollar was issued with the legend "Bank of England

 Five Shillings Dollar, 1804." Under George III, too, a

large variety of copper coins were also struck for The

East India Company, Isle of Man, Prince of Wales

 Island, Sierra Leone, Barbados, Ceylon, etc.

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After George III came William IV ( 1830 to 1837)

and then, of course, Queen Victoria who reigned

from 1837 to 1901. Such being the longest reign

of any British monarch to date. Llewellynn Jewitt

was not to live to see the death of Victoria. And

so, his coin handbook deals only in the first stages

of the many designs and coin dye changes during

 her long and almost 65 years on the throne. Under

 her reign, Maundy Money is first mentioned by

Jewitt in his reference to Victorian coinage.

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Perhaps in the coming days I'll add a little more

in telling you even more of what I have learned

 from the 120 year-old coin handbook that is as

 valid today as it was then. Indeed, it might be

 more valid today than it was over a century ago

 as far as its history and usefulness to numismatists

of English and worldwide coin collecting

of this day and age.

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With pleasure, Uncle Monty.

+Ember Day, 20ll.

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Antiquarian Book Prices for

Some Rarer Llewellynn Jewitt Books.

http://www.antiqbook.com/books/asearch.phtml?author=Llewellyn_Jewitt

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Arnie & Beyoncé

By Uncle Monty.

Graphics By Alex Albion.

http://allaboutthebigissue.blogspot.com/2011/04/arnie-beyonce.html

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They Have No Name, Say They.

By Uncle Monty.

TCWNN Photos By Alex Albion.

http://allaboutthebigissue.blogspot.com/2011/04/have-no-name.html

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Enthroned.

Anglican Enthronement of Bishop

Christopher Chessun of Southwark.

By Uncle Monty.

Enthronement Photos

 By Alex Albion.

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On The Darker Side of The Diocese.

Sidebar By Uncle Monty. 

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They came all dressed up in their Sunday best,

at least for the most part, to the Anglican

Enthronememt, by invitation only, of the Tenth

Bishop of Southwark called Christopher Thomas

James Chessun, age 55.  Translated from Woolwich,

 he steps into the consecrated shoes of Bishop Tom

Butler, who in 2010 reached his retirement age

of 70 after some late controversy during his

 12 years at the ancient Southwark bishopic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chessun

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Tall and refined, Bishop Christopher is a quint-

essential Anglican bishop with his erudrite charm

and disarming persona. Popular with both the

consecrated and ordained clergy and parish laity,

the churchman was almost mobbed by the packed

crowd of onlookers at his impressive enthronement

that took place earlier last month at London's

renowned Southwark Cathedral.

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As enthronements go, the Chessun one was

quite outstanding with every kind of civil and legal

dignitary also present to add so much class and

 taste to the historic Anglican Rite

of Consecration.

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Aside from other Anglican bishops partaking

in the eccesiastical ceremony, the representation

of ecumenical bodies - Catholic, Orthodox,

Buddhist, Coptic, Methodist, Episcopal, etc. -

was clearly evident with such clerical noteworthies

 as the Catholic Archbishop Peter Smith of

Southwark, whose own enthronement, or more

correctly Installation, I attended last year at St.

George's Cathedral after being has he was

the Archbishop of Cardiff.

...

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With at least a couple of thousand people seated inside

the packed cathedral, it was neccassy to deploy large

plasma flat panels, or TV screens, at various spots in

order for such folkz to view the full ceremony of en-

thronement. As the 'enthronee,' Bishop Christopher

Chessun seemed quite at home with the whole

event and seemed to also relish the attention poured

on him by the invited and friendly congregation.

 Being flanked was he, too, by his fellow bishops,

the Cathedral Dean, and diocesan clergy during

 the two hour or so long Anglican Rite.

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Bp. Christopher After His Enthronement.

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Both centre of attention and in the picture,

Bp.Christopher was all Anglican smiles ...

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Lord Bishop of London (r) Rt. Rev'd

Richard Chartes chats with fellow churchman.

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A Truly Ecumenical Gathering At
The Chessun Anglican Enthronement.

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Yet Another Bishop Christopher, This One

 is Bishop Christopher HILL of Guildford.

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Bishop Photographing Fellow Bishops!

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Traditional Anglo-Catholic Priest, Father Paul

Butler of Deptford Representing His Anglican

Parish Quite Well At The Enthronement.

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This Judicial Gentlemen Represents The

Long Arm of the Law, Doesn't He?

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Another Enthronement Guest, Indeed!

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The Anglican Enthronement of Bishop

Christopher Chessun also says that the Church

of England is still seemingly alive and well

despite falling attendance rates and less and

 less English folkz seeking no longer to be

baptized, undergo holy matrimony, and/or hold

religious funerals within the church. There is a

 kind of anti-Christian disembowelment inside

 "Broken Britain" thesedays in its mindless

quest to accommodate even those religious

 traditions that are totally inimical to the tenets
 of Christianity.  Perhaps it something to do
with being forced to "love thy enemy," but

such a religious rationale is frought with ever

greater danger to the survival of the church

against the vile forces of Islam and outright

secularism/humanism that had been allowed

to rear their ugly heads all in the name of so-

called diversity and tolerance. The whole

situation, frankly, is pitiful!!  And, it is almost
an open season on UK fundamental Christians
who dare act on their religious convictions
against homosexuality, public fornificiation,
internet pornography, and the decline of
 religious grace. The slow and sure death of

Christianity is also hastened by those dis-

affected and alienated Christians who have

opted out at all cost from defending their church

 and faith with utter impunity and contempt.
Along with such new-fangled gimmicks
besetting the English Church like the
 one recently reported herein:
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Church of England row as cathedral opens
doors to tarot card readers and crystal
 healers in 'new age' festival.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370694/Church-England-row-cathedral-opens-doors-tarot-card-readers-crystal-healers-new-age-festival.html#ixzz1Hxqw8rNP
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The end of the Church Age may indeed be

much nearer than we think, especially in the

 UK and in federalized Europe as a whole.

 Such again is pretty pitiful. The Chessun enth-

ronement, in some regard, is a rather happy

distraction from the raw reality confronting

many of today's Anglicans, who for many are
embittened by the ordination of womenfolk and

and self-professing homosexuals who have

wreaked havoc on the church as noted by the

disconcerting election and iffy consecration
of hideous gay Gene Robinson of New
Hampshire within the worldwide Anglican
 Communion. How one fellow like Robinson 
could have done so much damage to the church,
especially The Episcopal Church, USA, is almost
mind-boggling.  Yet, Gene Robinson has gotten

away with it has he now plans soon to

finally retire. Good riddance to him!!

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While the religious display of the Anglican

Rite of Enthronement at London's Southwark

 Cathedral was most welcome, the real

underbelly of the cathedral habitat that I saw

wasn't welcome at all.  Next, read  below

 my sidebar "On The Darker Side of the

Diocese" to understand what I mean. The
rhetoric and reality were just like day and
night for me at the Southwark Diocese.

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Faithfully, Uncle Monty.

+Mothering Sunday, 2011.

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Bishop-Emeritus Tom Butler of Southwark
at Elephant & Castle's St. Matthews
Anglican Parish in 2oo5.

On The Darker Side of the Diocese.

Sidebar By Uncle Monty.

Additional Photos By Alex Albion.

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Stupid obstacles were put in my way has I

covered the above story of mine for my blogz
on the Anglican Enthronement of Bishop

Christopher Chessun. Pompous ass or arse
Steve Harris and the women steward he
was with outside Glaziers Hall were totally
uncooperative and rather unAnglican to me.
They refused to help me cover the enthrone-
ment no matter what. Later, the same
woman was inside the cathedral and per-

sisted on interferring with me and showing off
whenever I tried  to photograph  the enthronement
gathering. She was just awful and on a power
 trip like that Steve Harris of the ilk you'd expect
to find at some corny celebrity event instead
of inside a renowned British cathedral.  Like

 her, pompous ass or arse Steve Harris
thought he, too, was so, so, so, important ...

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Sadly, I had a similar situation at The Lambeth

Conference, 2008, with Rev'd (now Canon) John

Carter of the Ripton Docese who deliberately

prevented me from covering the ten-yearly
Anglican Conference at Canterbury in his

asinine role as "media coordinator" of the ten-

yearly worldwide Anglican event. Whenever I

have coverd other major religious events around 

the world, aside from Anglican ones, I have

 always been greeted and welcomed without

 any problems or obstacles placed in my way.

When I covered, for example, Pope

 Benedict VXI's Official State Visit to the UK

 last year and more recently this year the pastoral

visit of Patriarch & Beatitude ILIA II of Russia,
I was made to feel right at home. But not so at the
Anglican Conference nor at the Southwark Diocese 
as a lifelong traditional Anglican that I am. So

why do such Diocesan Anglicans behave so

unkindly and rather unAnglican to their

fellow faithful? It just beats me! I make no

apology for covering Bishop Chessun since

I have known him from when he was first

elected and consecrated as the Bishop of

Woolwich. He is a fine Anglican and an

outstanding Churchman. I have encountered

 him from time to time over the past six years at

such events at Holocaust Day and at Christian

Unity Week at where he was with such bishops
as Bishop Bernard Longley of Westminster and

who is now the Archbishop of Birmingham.
Bernard Longley is a truly magnificant and kindly
man! I feel privileged to know him. He also has
an old namesake called Charles Thomas Longley
 (1794-1868), who long ago became the Archbishop
of Canterbury in 1862. Earlier he had been the ABY,
 Bishop of Ripton, and headmaster of Harrow.
+

 I still feel so vexed that I was barricaded by
two officious and unhelpful and non-clerical

representatives of the Southwark Diocese at

their own whim and shameless self-importance,

 along, albeit, with their ignorant shortsightedness.

+
This, I might also add, was the same diocese under

 Very Rev'd Dean Colin Slee, since dead and buried

 last year, who ban the traditional hymn "Jerusalem"

from Southwark Cathedral.  "Ban The Dean Who

 Banned  Jersulam," I then wrote of him in utter dis-
gust of his unilateral ban of one of the most patriotic

hymns in all of England! But Colin Slee, like so many

modern day Anglican Church leaders, are mindlessly
caught up in their unaccountable desire to "out
liberal the radical liberals" infecting the Church of
England today ... That's why, I presume, he felt
compelled to ban Jerusalem at Cathedral
weddings and memorials, etc.

+

After the Slee episode, then came Bishop Tom
Bulter  - since retired - all somewhat tipsy and
smelling  of booze after leaving an invited reception
at the Irish Embassy. Upon leaving, Bishop Tom

 stumbled somewhat ungraciously into a 

parked Jaguar and didn't seem to know if he

was coming or going as he sat inside all nonplus!

Finally, he made it to Cathedral Alley, albeit,

still in one unholy piece ... His Grace, ABC

 Rowan Douglas Williams consoled no doubt
his fellow Anglican bishop, but did nothing to

publicly censure the soon to be retired Bishop

 Tom. Now the retired good fella Tom can

drink to his heart's content without perhaps

embarrassing his fellow clergy and laity of

the Southwark Diocese ever again ...

+

As for pompous arse Steve Harris and that

 dreadful woman steward with him, I shall take

steps to aviod them if I should ever see them

again upon ever wanting to visit Southwark

Cathedral ever again ... So, what I saw at the

Chessun Enthronement was simply "on the

darker side of the diocese."  Such also
marred much of the enthronement for
 me personally and as an Anglican, too.

+

As an avid and an avowed Anglican, it

grieves me to have been treated so rottenly
by such an officous and self-important pair.

Whatever, I still got most of the photos I

wanted and I still successfully covered the

enthronement even if I had to dodge the 

pitiful pair at the the Southwark Diocese's

Anglican Enthronement of Bishop Christopher

Chessun. I wish him all the best, whatever ...

+
Truly, Uncle Monty.
+4th Sunday of Lent, 2011.
+

While at Washington, D.C. a few years ago, I

had a wonderful encounter with the presiding

bishop of two-million member US Episcopal

Church Frank Tracy Griswold, who has since

retired. He was the Episcopal Bishop of Chicago

before heading the national church at New York.

+

And while in Australia at Melbourne, I encountered

(shown below) the whole diocesan clergy all in one
go at the Melbourne St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne,

which is the metropolitical and cathedral church of
the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. It was a mar-

vellous occasion. Such later was not the case, how-

ever, upon first meeting Bishop Gene Robinson of

New Hampshire at the Hay Literary Festival in
Wales. I happened to know the New Hamphire
diocese quite well upon having attended college
 there in the Granite State some years earlier.
Gene Roberson left me utterly cold and I also
suspect ex-US Prez Jimmy Carter, too, who I
also met again at Hay and who attended Gene's
 lecture sitting right in front of me! What the
Southern Baptist Carter thought of the Episcopal/
Anglican Robinson was something I almost wanted
 to ask the ex-president as I chatted with him!

For once, however, I kept my gob shut on that!!

+

The Diocesan Clergy of Melbourne Anglican Cathedral.

+

I have received an enquiry regarding the gentleman

shown below. Is he an Anglican bishop or not?

His name is James Campbell, I believe. I could not

find him listed at any official Anglican Church websites.

 If you are aware of the gentleman herein in question,

please let me know his clerical status. He may, of

course, be one of those authocephalous buggers

for all we know ... E-mail: newsscope@k.st
+

+

All dressed in their national African costumes, the
women were seen inside Southwark Cathedral at
 Bishop Christopher Chessun's grand enthronement.

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Here's a few of the more than 50 other Anglican

 & religious stories written by Uncle Monty.

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Cymru. In Welsh By Uncle Monty. 8 Jan 2010.

Cymru's Sant John Roberts. I mewn Cymraeg At

 Ewythr Monty. Fotos a graffigau ny Alex Albion.

http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2010/08/cymru-in-welsh-by-uncle-monty.html

http://www.randompics.info/photo/2Qbv8d6RiaBgxM

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Maspindzeli. By Uncle Monty. 9 Feb 2011.
 Photos By Alex Albion. The Georgian Folk Song Concert
 In Honour of His Holiness & Beatitude Patriarch ILIA ...
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2011/02/maspendzeli-by-uncle-monty.html
+
Inside Lambeth Palace. By Uncle Monty. 7 Nov 2010.
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2010/11/lambeth-by-uncle-monty.html
+
 POPE. By Uncle Monty. 15 Sep 2010. They know each other ...
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2010/09/pope-by-uncle-monty.html
+
Blessed Anglorum Pageantry. By Uncle Monty. 24 Jun 2009.
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2009/06/blessed-anglorum-pageantry-by-uncle.html
+
Ban The Dean Who Banned Jerusalem. By Uncle Monty. 11 Apr 2008.
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2008/04/ban-dean-who-banned-jerusalem-by-uncle.html
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Now leading Blair fundraiser is suspected

of fixing papal honours. By Ian Gallagher.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372745/Now-leading-Blair-fundraiser-suspected-fixing-papal-honours.html#ixzz1IPrl772v
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