Theresa May’s un-Christian approach to refugees is an embarrassment to her religion
The Prime Minister, who often trumpets her own Christianity, must be aware that her faith wouldn’t exist if its founder hadn’t started life as a child refugee [Image: PA].
What can have happened to Theresa May, in the years between hearing her father spread Christ’s message from his pulpit and becoming a senior politician, to enable the mistreatment of Irene Clennell… the middle-aged woman from County Durham who – despite being married to an Englishman for 27 years, having two British children and a British grandchild, and being a volunteer of excellent character – has been deported to her native Singapore.
The Government acted in accord with its rule book. But there are fundamental laws of human decency which should countermand the transient dictates of statute. Any rule book that legalises handling innocent human beings like cattle, and facilitates the ruination of family life for no compelling reason, is a moral abhorrence.
You need not be a deeply religious person to regard that as axiomatic, though as it happens, Theresa May is. Or so she says. More unembarrassedly than any PM in memory, she talks about being a Christian. Her faith “lies behind what I do”, she has said. “Our Christian heritage is something we can all be proud of,” she told the House of Commons.
Which scriptural passage, or element of that proud heritage, explains the brutal immigration policy she enforced during her six years at the Home Office, and the nastier one she presides over now, is a mystery. But we can probably rule out the bit in Matthew 2:13 about how, on being so advised by the angel of the Lord in a dream, Joseph fled to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus to escape Herod.
Theresa May will have read and heard that passage down the decades. She must understand from it that her Christian faith would not exist if its founder hadn’t started life as a child refugee.
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Pity they didn’t act according to the rule book where electioneering expenses are concerned. Tories will flout any rules that don’t suit their own selfish interests.
Is someone who has travelled through many safe nations where they could have claimed refugee status really a refugee, or an economic migrant? Muslims have the same god as jews and christians indeed Jesus is mentioned in the quaran so why not expect them to have christian values, they were around before muslim ones. I’m agnostic does that relieve me of saying “I am a christian but”, to be able to make statements that the pc world does not approve of.
Mrs May or may not…
Key quote
“We know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further (as a result of immigration) while some people are forced out of work altogether”
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. Theresa May
The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. Theresa May
I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major. Theresa May
a religious warmonger then…