{"id":23036,"date":"2010-11-22T05:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishops_warn_david_camerons_big_society_will_be_undermined_by_welfare_cuts\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T05:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:11:33","slug":"bishops_warn_david_camerons_big_society_will_be_undermined_by_welfare_cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23036","title":{"rendered":"Bishops warn David Cameron&#39;s Big Society will be undermined by welfare cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England bishops have attacked the Government&#8217;s planned cuts to public spending, with one warning they will lead to the creation of &#8220;townships&#8221; in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops said the Church is on a &#8220;collision course&#8221; with the Coalition as it seeks to protect those worst affected by the welfare reforms, with one saying the thought of the cuts made him &#8220;shudder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another criticised the &#8220;double standards&#8221; which have left the deprived more affected by the cuts than the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Their concerns will be raised at this week&#8217;s General Synod, the Church&#8217;s Parliament, which is debating David Cameron&#8217;s vision of a Big Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/8148642\/Bishops-warn-David-Camerons-Big-Society-will-be-undermined-by-welfare-cuts.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church of England bishops have attacked the Government&#8217;s planned cuts to public spending, with one warning they will lead to the creation of &#8220;townships&#8221; in Britain. The bishops said the Church is on a &#8220;collision course&#8221; with the Coalition as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23036\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}