People used to hand me the hymnbook and insist on finding me the place.
– Rt Hon David Blunkett PC MP, on Radio 4’s Sunday programme today, recalls being at church in Sheffield as a blind boy… and provides a perfect metaphor for his party’s philosophy of government.
He went on to explain that he would play along with the pointless drama – pretending to sing from the book. Compliance is not approval; nor is it evidence that the ‘enabling’ state is doing good.
Was this a pentacostal church, where everyone pretended to be cured, and was supposed to play along?