… wages, that is, at least in the Church of England, where 2,000 members of Unite’s Faith branch are lodging a pay demand for the first time ever. The clergy want a 9.4% salary increase, because 1 in 5 of them had to rely on charity last year just to make ends meet. While Christians are generally supposed to venerate poverty, it’s a bit galling for them when the C of E has an investment fund worth a cool £10.3bn, at an average rate of return of 10.2%, which comes to almost £3m a day.
Religion is a racket to stop workers rebelling, and won’t even pay its own showrunners. And they claim it’s the source of human morality!