Witness in Birmingham against RSE

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6 March 2019

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Ofsted chief condemns Parkfield parents

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5 March 2019

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Amanda Spielman Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted

Parents at Parkfield School in Birmingham have demonstrated overwhelming solidarity in their battle to oust a campaigning homosexual teacher. The parents took between 540 and 600 children out of school on Friday 1st March 2019. That’s out of a total roll of 740, as the Birmingham Mail reports.

The ‘No Outsiders’ project has been developed by one Andrew Moffat. The campaigning homosexual acts as ‘assistant head teacher’ at the school. No Outsiders has figured books such as ‘Mommy, Mama and Me’, ‘My Princess Boy’ and ‘King & king’ – stories about same-sex relationships and transgenderism.

No protests, please!

The head of the education inspection agency supports gay lessons. A defiant Amanda Spielman, ‘Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector’ (HMCI) at Ofsted, explained it is ‘vital’ children know about ‘families that have two mummies or two daddies’. To a decadent society, sodomy is ‘vital’.

She condemned parental protests and called for ‘sane, rational discussion’. If a policy was ‘not working well enough’ then ‘it’s proper conversation that will change it, not protests,’ she sniffed.

But protests work …

It’s breathtaking establishment arrogance. Funnily enough, the Guardian told us on Monday that Parkfield School has now stopped gay lessons, for now. In a face-saving letter to parents, the school said: ‘Up to the end of this term, we will not be delivering any No Outsiders lessons in our long-term year curriculum plan, as this half term has already been blocked for religious education (RE).’ So protests work!

But in a defiant tone, the letter went on: ‘Equality assemblies will continue as normal and our welcoming No Outsiders ethos will be there for all.’

The parents are telling Christian Voice that no child will attend any assembly or class conducted by Andrew Moffat. Here is our earlier report of their protests, which we attended.

Ofsted: ‘Outside influence’

Parkfield Community School, where gay activist Andrew Moffat has been promoting No Outsiders

Astonishingly, Ofsted later confirmed Parkfield was re-inspected after receiving a number of complaints. However, a spokesperson said: ‘We support the right of school leaders to determine the curriculum as they see fit and in the interests of their pupils – free from hostile outside influence.’ That’ll be parents, no doubt.

The ‘spokesperson’ went on: ‘All schools have a responsibility to prepare children for life in modern Britain and that includes encouraging respect for those who are different, for instance LGBT people or those of different faiths.’ And parents have a responsibility to defend and inoculate their children from gay propaganda:

Deut 6:7 And thou shalt teach (God’s words) diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Conference in Cumbria

In an interesting development, Amanda Spielman is the headline act at an education conference in Cumbria on Monday 18th March. HMCI will speak at the Cumbrian Leading Learning research conference at West Lakes Academy in Egremont.

The conference starts at 8.30am and runs until 4.00pm. We are talking to local Christians and may hold a witness which would start from 8.00am sharp if we have enough support.

Psa 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Conference in Birmingham

However, the weekend before, Education Secretary Damian Hinds is speaking on Friday 15th and Amanda Spielman on Saturday 16th March at the Association of School and College Leaders 2019 Annual Conference. It is being held in, of all places, Birmingham. Lord, how do you do that? the venue is the International Convention Centre (ICC) B1 2EA.

We’ll witness with leafleting at 8.00am on both days and also aim to be there from 4.00pm to 5.30pm for people leaving the venue.

Psa 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

This event is heaven-sent for a big witness! If you can, come. If not, pray!

Spielman controversies

Controversy appears to dog Amanda Spielman. An accountant with no teaching experience, never having placed her children in a state school, her appointment was roundly condemned by the Education Select Committee. Despite that, then Education Secretary Nicky Morgan MP appointed her anyway.

Luke Tryl. The gay Tory activist has enjoyed a meteoric rise.

And here’s a twist. Nicky Morgan’s education advisor at the time, gay activist and Tory Party 1hack Luke Tryl, fresh from a stint at Stonewall, went on to become head of policy, no less, at Ofsted.

SchoolsWeek says he’s just left the corrupt watchdog to become head of the New Schools Network, a Government-funded charity which advises on setting up Free Schools.

Psa 73:3 For I was envious … when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. … 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. … 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

The hijab crusade

This time last year, the Amanda went on a crusade – as it were- against hijabs when Neena Lall, head of St Stephen’s, an east London primary school, banned girls under eight from wearing them. She even sent inspectors to the school to show solidarity. “School leaders,” she said subsequently, “must have the right to set school uniform policies … to promote cohesion … Ofsted will always back heads who take tough decisions in their pupils’ interests.” Parents and Muslim community leaders forced the ban’s reversal anyway.

Ms Spielman pointedly called on “others in government” to give similar backing. “Muscular liberalism”, she said, was needed “to tackle those who actively undermine fundamental British values”.

That’ll be ‘fundamental British values’ like accepting sodomy. This Amanda is heading for a fall.

Prov 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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What unites the ‘Independent Group’?

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22 February 2019

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Parents protest against No Outsiders SexEd

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7 February 2019

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Prayer answered, but we need repentance!

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30 January 2019

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Yvette Cooper is moving an amendment to change Brexit law.

Here is the Hansard record of last night’s debate with the divisions. Our MPs received much prayer through this month, over the weekend and indeed as they met yesterday afternoon to vote on Brexit and amendments to the G+overnment plans.

Some of the amendments the House voted against would have impeded or delayed Brexit, They were all defeated by the grace of God. Remember to thank him for his grace and mercy and praise his holy name.

The only two which succeeded were Dame Caroline Spelman’s rejecting leaving without a deal and Sir Graham Brady’s, approving the May Deal without the hated Backstop.

Brexit next steps

So Mrs May is back off to Brussels with the Brady Amendment in her bag. She will tell the EU removing the Backstop is what Parliament wants. The EU have immediately said they will not renegotiate. But they would say that. As the clock ticks down to No Deal on 29th March 2019, despite the aspirations of Mrs Spelman and the House, they may well budge. Otherwise it’s No Deal, the default position. Pray for Mrs May to find favour with the Lord:

Prov 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. … 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

And to be frank, at some stage the UK will leave the EU. All the questions raised by supermarkets and farmers’ unions and industry about markets and supply chains and tariffs on imports from and exports to the EU will one way or another eventually have to faced. Moreover, our United Kingdom needs repentance, and that requires a heaven-sent leader. So keep praying!

Yesterday the BBC reported that Theresa May’s neutral motion was designed to allow discussion of next steps on Brexit. MPs tabled amendments. The Speaker decided on which amendments to select impartially, as we prayed, reminding the Lord of his word set out in scripture:

Lev 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Labour Front Bench amendment

The opposition’s amendment instructed the government to rule out what it refers to as a ‘disastrous No Deal’ scenario. It proposed an alternative Brexit deal involving Labour’s plan for a permanent customs union with Brussels and a version of the EU’s single market. Mr Corbyn’s amendment also proposed legislating to hold a public vote on either a deal or a proposition that had MPs’ support.

It was defeated by 327 votes to 296. ‘No Deal’ is of course the default scenario under the legislation on Article 50 which a huge majority of MPs voted for two years ago.

Lib Dem amendment

Once again, Mr Speaker did not select Mr Vince Cable’s amendment instructing the government to take steps to rule out ‘No Deal’ and to ‘prepare for a People’s Vote in which the public will have the option to remain in the European Union on the ballot paper’.

The BBC said: ‘The People’s Vote campaign for a fresh referendum on EU membership held back from tabling a similar amendment, saying it would not get the backing of a majority of MPs without Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn telling his party to back it.’

He did not, and it wasn’t called anyway, so that is an answer to prayer.

Yvette Cooper’s amendment

This was the big one. It demanded parliamentary time to pass a new law ruling out No Deal. The new law would also have required Theresa May to seek to postpone Brexit day (currently 29th March) until 31st December. That would all have come into effect if MPs do not approve a deal by 26th February.

Firstly, the prime minister would have to ask the EU 27 to agree to extend the two-year limit on Article 50. Secondly they would have to agree. Thirdly,. they will only do that if it looks like it might achieve something to benefit them. Fourthly, any extension past July will need the UK to hold elections to the European Parliament.

The amendment had the backing of senior Conservative backbenchers such as Nicky Morgan and Oliver Letwin, former Lib Dem health minister Norman Lamb and Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake. Miss Cooper tabled it with Tory Remainer Nick Boles. It was the only amendment which would have bound the Government. Labour supported it. But it was lost by 23 votes. Dominic Grieve’s (The Grinch!) amendment calling for every Tuesday from now on to be Brexit debating day was rejected by 20 votes.

The successful amendments:

Amendment proposed: (i), at end, add
“and rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a Withdrawal Agreement and a Framework for the Future Relationship.”—(Dame Caroline Spelman.)
Ayes: 318 Noes: 310 Question accordingly agreed to.

Amendment proposed: (n), at end, add
“and requires the Northern Ireland backstop to be replaced with alternative arrangements to avoid a hard border; supports leaving the European Union with a deal and would therefore support the Withdrawal Agreement subject to this change.”—(Sir Graham Brady.)
Ayes: 317 Noes: 301 Question accordingly agreed to.

(At some stage we might analyse all the voting – but that’s a bigger project to be done right now!)

False positive prophecies

Finally, what of so-called prophecies claiming the world is going to flock to the UK as a paragon of progress and virtue once we leave the EU? Some of us need to see things from the point of view of the Lord Almighty. The way to do that is to get into his word, which is in the Holy Scriptures. There we see that God hates wickedness. It is that simple:

Hos 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

The UK is promoting the wickedness of sodomy, feminism, abortion and even transgenderism at home and around the world. The Department for Education promotes promiscuity and perversion to our nation’s children in England. In the devolved administrations it is just the same.

International wickedness

Our Foreign Office and the Department for International Development are pouring millions into pro-LGBT NGOs all over Africa and wherever else they can get a toe in. The EU also does that, but we led the way and we taught them. The Foreign Office started wars in Iraq and Syria and is responsible for massive loss of life and property, ruining people’s lives.

Jer 9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Is the Almighty going to hold a nation such as ours up as a standard in opposition to his word? Really? The best we can say is that coming out of the revived Roman empire of the EU is an opportunity for national repentance. That on its own will be by the grace of God.

Psalm 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

Spiritual significance

For the spiritual significance of coming out of the EU, see this link here on our website. And keep praying!

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Prayer saves all in Prince Philip crash

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18 January 2019

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The aftermath of the crash involving Prince Philip.

Psalm 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

It’s good being a member of the Royal Family if for no other reason than this: All over the United Kingdom people are praying for you.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash yesterday afternoon while turning right onto the A149 by the Queen’s Sandringham estate at the junction with the B1349.

All walked away

A Kia, coming round a bend on the A149 from the south, hit Prince Philip’s Land Rover Discovery in the side. The Discovery was sent rolling over by the impact. It ended up on its driver’s side in the verge. The Kia stayed on the road and finished its journey in the hedge right by the Land Rover.

The speed limit on the A149 is 60mph, as on every UK single-carriageway road. Norfolk Council have now voted to reduce the speed limit to 50mph.

Astonishingly, everyone walked away from the crash. Prince Philip and the other driver were both breath tested after the collision and gave negative readings.

According to Sky News, one Roy Warne was passing by and first helped the occupants of the Kia. They included a baby, unharmed in the rear seat. The baby’s mother sustained a cut to her knee while her passenger broke her wrist.

Prince Philip asked if anyone was hurt

Prince Philip, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, in the front seat of his Land Rover Discovery.

Mr Warne then went to the other car. He said he didn’t realise at first it was HRH inside the overturned Land Rover. He explained, ‘I told him to move one of his legs to make room for the other leg, and then I put my hands under his arms and helped ease him out backwards.

‘And then I saw his face.’

He went on, ‘It was a horrendous accident, it’s just amazing that nobody was seriously injured.’

Mr Warne, 75, added the Duke was ‘shaken up’ and was ‘asking if anyone was hurt’ after the crash.

Cars well built

We can thank God firstly for how well cars are built these days. There is so much wrong in our society, it is easy to forget how much good there is. Modern safety standards for vehicles is one of them.

The Coventry Evening Telegraph suggests Prince Philip’s Discovery may have been strengthened in a special facility. However, none of that applies to the Kia. Not so long ago, a small car hitting a large one head on would have crumpled to a pack of scrap metal, killing everyone on board.

But equally, for everyone to walk away after such a terrible collision can be seen as ‘amazing’ or as a miracle, depending on one’s point of view. And here is where the prayer comes in.

Prayers are heard

At our New Year with the Celtic Saints event just passed, we all prayed for the Queen and for the Royal Family twice a day. Our prayers were sometimes in our own words. At other times we prayed using the words in the Book of Common Prayer. Those prayers are not specifically for protection from perils, but ‘health and wealth’ and ‘to bless’ and ‘prosper’ include that, by the grace of God.

Moreover, all over the UK, when traditionalist Anglicans meet for Matins or Evensong, they pray these prayers. There may not be many such today, but it still happens. All that prayer is heard at the Throne of Grace.

So we can offer prayers of thanksgiving today for such a dramatic deliverance in answer to prayer. And if your church does not regularly pray for the Queen and her ministers, for the Royal Family and for all in authority, perhaps it should start.

1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Butler’s Cross

In what may be the grace of God, the junction where the crash occurred is marked by the remains of a medieval standing stone cross.

A website says it is now ‘consisting of the base and a fragment of the shaft, set on a modern plinth of stone and tile with a plaque and surrounded by remains of a rusty iron fence’. We can see the top of the railings, the ‘iron fence’ as they put it, in the crash photo above. The crash photo was taken from the very site of Butler’s Cross.

Crosses have traditionally been placed at cross-roads as way markers but for one additional reason above all: that the Lord of all mercies would protect travelers. The cross will have been erected with a service of prayers for that specific intention. Furthermore, perhaps prayer was afterwards wont to be made at the site. In any event, the cross heard them all. Do stones hear and remember? Yes, they do:

Josh 24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

Here are those Prayer-Book prayers:

A Prayer for the Queen’s Majesty.

O LORD, our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth: Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen ELIZABETH; and so replenish her with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that she may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way. Endue her plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant her in health and wealth long to live; strengthen her that she may vanquish and overcome all her enemies; and finally after this life she may attain everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Royal Family.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Charles Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family: Endue them with thy Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly grace; prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Psalm 20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

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Tory Remainers in disarray

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17 January 2019

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Will the Grinch steal Brexit?

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11 January 2019

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200 MPs meet Mrs May to oppose No Deal

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8 January 2019

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Prime Minister Theresa May will tell 200 MPs opposed to No DEal to vote for Her Deal.

A group of over 200 MPs opposed to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a deal are to meet the Prime Minister today.

Sky news reports: ‘The politicians are from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP and Plaid Cymru parties and the letter was written by Meriden MP Caroline Spelman (Conservative) and Birmingham Erdington MP Jack Dromey (Labour).’

How it will go

This is what will happen at the meeting:

Mrs May will make sure everyone has a drink of some sort. That is what she did yesterday, says The Sun, when she entertained Conservative and DUP MPs including Boris Johnson and Nigel Dodds, as stage one of her charm offensive. Not that any changed their minds, but hey, one does what one can. Then after a warm welcome, the Prime Minister will ask the 200 MPs about their concerns.

They will say manufacturing in the UK, especially in the Midlands, will grind to a halt if there is no deal. Thousands of their constituents will lose their jobs. There will be no exports to the EU any more, and no drugs or nurses for the NHS. It will be like jumping off a cliff-edge. Or being involved in a car-crash. Aircraft will fall out of the sky, some may assert. Others will report the Chicken Licken Think Tank has said the sky itself will fall down.

Mrs May will immediately express herself extremely sympathetic to the MPs. She will say she understands their concerns. The Prime Minister will add she fully shares their horror of leaving the EU without a deal. It really must not happen, despite Government planning for it just in case. ‘No Deal’ would be unthinkable, she will say, nodding her head earnestly.

What deal do the 200 MPs prefer?

That is why, she will continue brightly, the assembled MPs must vote for her deal. The only way to safeguard against No Deal is May Deal, she will tell them. A vote against May Deal would be ‘uncharted territory’ at best.

At that moment, many of the 200 MPs will say they oppose May Deal. ‘Oh I see’, the Prime Minister will respond, appearing shocked, ‘Then what deal do you prefer?’ At this, some will say they would like a Canada Deal, others will propose a Norway Deal. Some will say ‘the People’ should decide in a #PeoplesVote. Still others will venture that actually, to be honest, they want the UK to Remain in the EU.

‘Oh dear,’ Mrs May will say, ‘But if you cannot even agree amongst yourselves what deal you prefer, and some of you even want the ‘no deal’ of remaining, and you all know there is no time for a second referendum even if were democratic to hold one which it isn’t, then No Deal is the only outcome left standing.

It has to be May Deal

‘But we don’t want No Deal’, they will wail. ‘Our constituents’ jobs, no more exports, drugs, nurses, aeroplanes and cars crash, sky falls down, etc.’

‘That is why’, Mrs May will repeat, ‘You must all vote for my deal. It’s the only way to prevent No Deal.’

After more drinks and more exchanges, the 200 MPs will leave. They will leave reflecting on a lesson learned. It would have been much more clever to hold a series of indicative votes among themselves before they went in so they could present Mrs May with one collective preferred option. But it’s too late now. In fact, it really is too late now.

As for Mrs May, she will sit down and plan for episode three of her charm offensive. That is tomorrow’s invitation to yet more Conservative MPs for drinks and a promotional chat for May Deal. This time, of course, because so many will be in favour of No Deal, she will probably major on ‘No Brexit at all’ as the alternative to May Deal. But that would mean Mrs May delaying Article 50 or pulling it altogether. They all know she won’t do either. But it was a free drink at No 10. And that can’t be bad.

Meanwhile, the BBC reports Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay denying there have been meetings between UK and EU officials on extending Article 50.

Spiritual significance

For the spiritual significance of coming out of the EU, see this link here on our website. And keep praying!

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The clock is ticking for ‘No Deal’

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Mrs May faces no-confidence vote

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12 December 2018

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Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee

STOP PRESS 10pm: Theresa May has won the confidence vote by 200 votes to 117. But 160 MPs (118 ministers and 42 PPS’s) are on the payroll vote. So 117 out of the remaining 160 backbenchers have no confidence in Mrs May. Mrs May survives for a year, but she felt she had to promise not to lead her party into the next election to do so. It is not a resounding victory. And now she is off to Europe again to try to rescue her deal. End of Stop Press…

This morning Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee, revealed he had received more than 48 letters of no confidence in Theresa May as leader of the Party and therefore as Prime Minister.

1922 Committee meeting and vote

Sir Graham is arranging for Mrs May to address Tory MPs at the Committee’s normal Wednesday meeting at 5pm this afternoon, although some reports suggested the meeting could be brought forward.

Voting will take place between 6pm and 8pm tonight. The result could be declared soon after. Brexiteer MPs are angry that it has all happened so soon. They wanted the weekend to drum up support. But they are where they are, and the timing is surely of the Lord, however it turns out.

The Independent reminds us the 1922 Committee is named after a Tory rebellion: ‘The 1922, which meets in Parliament’s oak-panelled Committee Room 14 at 5pm every Wednesday afternoon, is named after the historic Carlton Club meeting between Tory rebels Stanley Baldwin and Bonar Law on 19th October 1922, in which the men successfully plotted the withdrawal of the party from its coalition with David Lloyd George’s Liberals.’

Mrs May ‘will fight’

Theresa May said this morning she would fight the no confidence vote with ‘Everything I’ve got.’

She added: ‘A new leader wouldn’t have time to re-negotiate a withdrawal agreement and get the legislation through Parliament by March 29, so one of their first acts would have to be extending or rescinding Article 50, delaying or even stopping Brexit when people want us to get on with it.’

Well, that depends on whom any new leader is. If they were a Remainer, it might almost be true, although any Prime Minister who extends Article 50, let alone withdraws it, would find his position untenable. He would almost certainly lose a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, since the DUP would no longer support him. He would almost certainly lose the general election which would follow.

Scare tactic aimed at Brexiteers

MPs decide the short-list of two but then the leader of the Conservative Party is elected by ordinary members of the Party. They are overwhelmingly pro-Brexit. So let us say Mrs May lost and that triggered a leadership election. The next leader and prime minister would be a Brexiteer of some sort or another. We can be sure his platform would not have included delaying or withdrawing Article 50.

Furthermore, in truth, there is very clearly no scope to re-negotiate the withdrawal agreement either. In yesterday’s whirlwind tour European leaders made that very plain to her.

So Mrs May’s is just a scare tactic directed at Brexiteer MPs. Why should Mrs May pick on them? Because they are the ones most likely to vote against her. What a coincidence.

Making the contest less about her and more about her deal and the Brexit outcome could be yet another mistake.

Bookmakers odds

Nevertheless, the bookmakers think Mrs May will survive the vote. William Hill put the Prime Minister’s chance to win at 6 to 4 on. Spokesman Rupert Adams said: ‘The odds suggest Theresa will be safe but it could be a close run thing.’

It would not be a total surprise for Mrs May to win the vote narrowly and then decide to resign. Knowing perhaps 40% of your colleagues have no confidence in you and that any number more are merely lukewarm is not a good place for any leader to be. If just 100 out of 330 Tory MPs vote against her, the word is the Cabinet will be advising her to resign.

But against that happening is Theresa May’s renowned stubbornness and her inability to face up to reality. But she may survive, and if so, that will be the Lord’s doing (and I might add, after all that has taken place in the last week, ‘wondrous in our eyes’!)

The Lord disposes

I was at a meeting of Prayer for Parliament in the Palace of Westminster last night. It was adddressed by Sir Jeffrey Donalson MP, DUP member for Lagan Valley. Sir Jeffrey also prayed into the Brexit situation in the House. He revealed that he has had the same revelation as I had yesterday.

That is that everything which has happened over Brexit has been orchestrated by the Lord. Furthermore, it is hard to escape the conclusion that his divine purpose is to bring the United Kingdom swiftly out of the EU’s Revived Roman Empire with no deal.

Prov 16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Just consider the Referendum Party launch in 1996 and the subsequent rise of UKIP to their heights of 2014. That, and pressure from his own Brexiteer MPs, forced Mr Cameron into putting a promise to hold a referendum into the Tory manifesto in 2015. He made good his pledge in 2016. The Referendum result was an unecpected victory for Leave over Remain by 52% to 48%.

Commons approved Article 50

Mr Cameron resigned the day after the result and Mrs May was appointed leader after Andrea Leadsom dropped out. Next, Remainers went to court to force a House of Commons vote on Article 50

The Supreme Court ruled in their favour on 24th January 2017. They hoped the House would block it. But the Brexit Bill cleared all its hurdles on 13th March 2017. Thanks to the Reminers, Article 50 had a Parliamentary legitimacy it would not have had.

Her Majesty’s Government served a notice under Article 50 on the EU on 29th March 2017. Now consider Mrs May’s botched General Election campaign during May and June 2017. I specifically prayed for a hung parliament with a Tory administration but with the DUP holding the balance of power, in effect, keeping them honest. That is what turned out.

Then came two wasted years of negotiation with an intransigent EU more concerned to punish the UK than look forward to a future trading relationship. During that time, the Government were forced in June 2018 to agree the Commons having a ‘meaningful vote’ on any resulting deal. Remainers thought that would ensure a deal more favourable to them.

The Lord knows the heart behind our prayer

Many of us prayed against the Commons have a meaningful vote for the same reason. How wrong we were. But the Lord knew what we were really praying for and disposed accordingly.

And now the Commons will not agree the May Deal. Moreover, there is no course around which the House of Commons can agree. The Brexit legislation sets a 21st January deadline. If there is to be a deal it must be approved by then. If not, ministers have to tell the House what they are going to do in its absence.

Finally, if there is no deal ratified by the UK and EU by 29th March, the United Kingdom leaves the EU on World Trade Organisation rules. In addition, we leave withpout paying £39 billion. And that is £733 for every person of working age in the UK, or over £1,400 per household.

The Metro newspaper headline yesterday was ‘The Clock is now ticking for No Deal’.

One could be forgiven for thinking the Lord himself has engineered a No-Deal Crash-Out outcome.

Has the Lord engineered No Deal?

Prov 16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

PRAY that the United Kingdom comes out of the European Union one way or another. An orderly way would be preferable. But it looks as if our esteemed Government has missed the boat for that outcome. They are stumbling towards ‘No Deal’, whoever is leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister.

The only danger in such a case is they might ask for an Article 50 extension. The EU would attach strings before granting such a request. A withdrawal of Art50 would be politically impossible. In any case, the Lord will decide against them.

Both sides of the Irish border and both sides of the Channel had better start preparing for No-Deal and WTO rules. They, and businesses, should have been doing this two years ago.

World trade collapsed

Finally, in Isaiah 23, we read of the Lord’s judgment on Tyre. If affected trade worldwide, including the mineral-rich isles of Tarshish. Many scholars now view ‘Tarshish’ as the British Isles. We were a known source of copper, tin, silver, gold, iron and lead in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Indeed, to have a ‘bronze age’ at all you need copper, found in Wales and Somerset, and tin from Cornwall. Isaiah writes of the destruction of Tyre as a catastrophe for trade:

Isa 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Ezekiel also pronounces a judgment on Tyre in Ezekiel 27. He lists the extensive and astonishing world trade at the time. Do read it! Like Isiaah he speaks of a collapse in world trade:

Eze 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

Be realistic in our prayer

What I saying is that we should be realistic in our prayers. Recognise a ‘No Deal’ exit will inevitably impact on people’s livelihoods. Companies may have to restructure.their markets or accept lower margins. Some may go out of business. It will be tough. Nevertheless, it will not be the disaster predicted by those of ‘Project Fear II’.

I believe if the Almighty orchestrates such an outcome it will be to benefit the UK in the longer term. Tarshish no doubt recovered and secured new markets. Isaiah promises after a 70-year period, a Biblical time of completion, not just prosperity but blessing in the purposes of God:

Isa 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

PRAY: That the repentance which will bring that about will be our portion in this United Kingdom, to the glory of God. And of course pray into this no-confidence vote and the aftermath. Moreover, remind the Lord what he has done for us so far, not because of our goodness – God knows our national sin – but because of his grace. And perhaps because he still has a purpose for this United Kingdom. Pray without ceasing!

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