View Delta

Competence Regarding competence, you could take the view that this is the application of the Peter Principle Peter principle - Wikipedia This says that people are promoted based on some degree of competence, but when they get to a level at which they are completely incompetent promotions cease and (in the corporate world when the book was written) they stay there. It's a theory which provides a rational explanation for many managers being incompetent. Boris Johnson clearly does not have the competence or integrity to be Prime Minister. For evidence of this, look at any news story about Boris Johnson this month (September 2019). His case does not fully fit the Peter Principle model, because he was dreadfully incompetent as a Foreign Secretary, but was elevated by the Tory Party as a vote-winner. Honesty The  "Boris Johnson Prime Minister"  brand is now firmly associated with dishonesty. Now it is true to say that that was also true of the  "...

What reasons might there be for a Christian Faith to influence us to support Brexit now? This is a puzzle. I know a number of Christians who support Brexit, and have sought to understand whether there are reasons why their Christian faith might lead them that way. Of course, there might be none – some might view it as a morally neutral decision on which they have made a political, economic or constitutional judgement. Also, they are not obliged to tell me their reasons. That’s fair enough.  But I have searched for faith-related reasons, which I could listen to and understand, that influence Christian friends to support Brexit, and my efforts have not been very fruitful. This article presents the reasons that I have heard, bolstered by some I have read in r elevant blogs, and with one extrapolated reason at the end. Now I need to say at the start that I may not be the best person to present those reasons, and others may do this much better – this is not surprising, bearing...