A whopping 40% of Anglican clergy voted Labour (remember, this was Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party), and 26% voted for the Liberal Democrats.
Now, you may say this isn’t quite the whole picture of clergy political affiliation, because 10% of Anglican clergy “prefer not to say” which way they voted, but (given Jeremy Corbyn’s curmudgeonly character and manifest antisemitism) it is as likely that these 10% included ‘shy’ Corbynites as well as ‘shy’ Tories.
lmao
Does this make the clergy one of the most progressive segments of the British population?
UK is a weird place, I remember I've met an Evangelical Protestant dude who voted Labour, because “I just vote for whatever benefits the needy”.
I generally have a soft spot for Anglicans, but only because I can't stand all of the modern churches that dispense with tradition and mysticism in exchange for Christian rock and big screen TVs. Somehow these American protestants found a way to make church even more boring.
