Comments on: Petition: Remove the automatic right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords

By: HUGH SINCLAIR

HUGH SINCLAIR — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:16:10 +0000

Re Richard Chartres wikipedia entry, the paragraphs removed (concerning fraudulent arrears claims by NIHHA) can still be read in full by opening up the amendments link at the foot of the Wikipedia entry. NIHHA had a vile record of harassing tenants and demanding undue arrears of rent. Gillean Craig argued that Chartres’ role as NIHHA President was p”purely titular” – an assertion that would be laughed out of court. An AGM report of a lavish gathering informed me of Chartres’ presence together with the Duke of Gloucester and Christopher Chope MP whose brief was transport, not housing.
Hugh sinclair M.A. (Oxon) in Jurisprudence

By: HUGH SINCLAIR

HUGH SINCLAIR — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:46:18 +0000

I must correct my previous vomment. After several months, the references contained withon the Richard Chartres Wikipedia entry regarding fraud by NIHHA, of which Chartres was President, has been removed, doubtless by a Chartres well-wisher. Slow off the mark. Ditto, French version!

By: HUGH SINCLAIR

HUGH SINCLAIR — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:24:04 +0000

Thank you for hosting this wonderful, authoritative blog.

Carey and Welby have fallen from grace. Cottrell demonstrates that he is wholly uneconomical with demonstrable untruths.

The Cottrell Petition,with currently near 36700 signatures, provides a notice-board on which Janet Fife has added a powerful comment of ‘no confidence’. This site places Cottrell in the stocks: there is a wealth of cogent denunciations. Long may the Cottrell Petition run and run. And the Petition to remove The automatic right of Bishops to sit in the House of Lords is most timely. The bishops have lost all credibility : just one has called publicly for Cottrell’s resignation. It is a reasonable presumption that a climate of fear predominates among their Lordships.

I doubt the CofE has much of a future without major reconstitution. I see no justification for it to retain its present privileged status under the constitution.

I write as someone who has had his career blighted by at least one senior Bishop and the said Bishop’s vicar acolyte whose name is familiar to readers of the Church Times. For further and better particulars, kindly see link to “RICHARD CHARTRES Wikipedia” under BISHOP.

The vicar’s Flat 3 was let to a senior church official who absent-mindedly mislaid over £5 million. The same Wikipedia site provides chapter and verse through a succinct Gov.UK confirmation which will also be found on the “DIOCESE OF LONDON” Wikipedia link under the
heading ‘Fraud’.

By: David Rees

David Rees — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:37:31 +0000

We owe you a great debt unvovering what must be on a scale as great or even greater than Mr Bates vs The Post Office re- Governance/Accountability etc. {have followed ‘ key parts of the Publc Enquiry, born and brought up attending the same primary school as the chair-Sir Wyn Wiliams- outstanding with top class council [Jason Beer KC]}
Is viewerenquiries@Channel4.co.uk on your ‘radar’ {Kathy Newman} and ‘link’ House of Lords with CHARITY COMMISSION and see if it has ‘traction’ to keep pushing for major reform of the Instituions preceeded by an ‘outside’ chaired independant rewiew- time scale to run in ‘parallel’ with ABC replacement- wonn’t be easy, likely huge ‘puhsback’- College of Bishops wanting to write Terms of Reference would be a disaster indeed!
** Prof Dame Sandra Dawson and Dr. Katy Steward are worth listening to their evidance on the Post Office IT Enquiry 12th and 13th Nov 024.
FYI -I sent a note to Chhannel 4 yesterday suggesting they investigate what I considar to be the un-ethical model within the Institutions of Common Fund/Parish share when Diocesan Boards of Finance through the Endowments and Glebe Measure Act in 1976 dioceses took all endowments and glebe land off parish churches and incumbents under a legal agreement where they agreed to pay stipends, pensions, and provide accommodation for incumbents of parish churches and were ever only invited to make voluntary contribution from their independent church charity registered with the Charity Commission into these Boards also registered with the Charity Commission. These Boards have access into the Church Commissioners with substantial funds to pay stipends, pensions, housing and have no need to ask or necessarily expect these church charities to make contributions to these Boards.

It doesn’t mean that ‘parish churches’ wouldn’t ask for financial contributions £ from its church members- they would, and decide to spend it on their own priorities eg: Foodbanks, children’s and school ministry, youth work, care and maintenance of the building, support for those in need etc.
Please feel free to come if I can be of any help, many thanks again for all your work.