Having committed an injustice the guilty parties generally seek to expiate their guilt by demonising their victim, and so it has been with me. The minutes of the meeting which 'sacked' me contained some wild inaccuracies and distinct misrepresentations, especially in the bit just after I had made a dignified withdrawal. And published with the minutes was a scurrilous and poisonous letter which further sought to accuse me of all manner of sins and crimes - of which I am entirely innocent.
As I wrote before, they cannot accept any iota of blame themselves, so they lay all the blame on anyone handy: in this case, the victim of their 'kangaroo court.'
So Orwell's Ministry of Truth lives on: its purpose was to rewrite history and change the facts to fit party doctrine... to maintain power the party must seem eternally right and strong.
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I congratulate the Mothers' Union in York Diocese on their dignified silence which I trust they will maintain.
A very selective silence, I think you'll find.
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