{"id":9951,"date":"2017-02-01T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:02:50","slug":"apology-fallon-ship-shame-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/apology-fallon-ship-shame-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology for Fallon ‘ship of ‘shame’ remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Admiral Kuznetsov (background) and Petr Velikiy shadowed by HMS St Albans (foreground) steaming through the English Channel on their way back to Russia. \u00a0Sir Michael Fallon described the aircraft carrier as a ‘ship of shame’, ‘skulking’ through the Channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PRESS RELEASE: Christian Voice has written to the Russian Ambassador in London<\/a><\/strong> to apologise for the rudeness of Her Majesty\u2019s Secretary of State for Defence Sir Michael Fallon.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Independent reported Sir Michael<\/a><\/strong> saying the British navy was keeping a \u2018close eye on the Admiral Kuznetsov as it skulks back to Russia.’\u00a0 He described the vessel a \u2018ship of shame whose mission has only extended the suffering of the Syrian people.’<\/p>\n

In the letter, Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, assured His Excellency Alexander Yakovenko\u00a0\u2018that there are those of us in the United Kingdom who recognise Admiral Kuznetsov helped liberate eastern Aleppo from jihadists.\u00a0 We are thankful\u00a0 that Russian planes supporting the Syrian army allowed Christians there to celebrate Christmas for the first time in five years. We are aware that peace talks have been taking place between the Syrian government and the armed opposition.\u00a0 We can see that has only happened because of Russian involvement in a crisis initiated at least partly by the United Kingdom.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fallon ‘weak and petulant’<\/h2>\n
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Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon MP has not adapted his view of the world since 1983, the height of the Cold War.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephen Green said today:<\/p>\n

\u2018It should concern us all when a British Minister lowers the standing of the Crown.\u00a0 Her Majesty is a Christian monarch, ruling a constitutionally Christian realm.<\/p>\n

\u2018There was nothing of Christian grace or strength in what Fallon said.\u00a0 We know the UK has no operational aircraft carrier and no longer, thank God, any further ability to wreak havoc in Syria.\u00a0 That is all the more reason not to portray weakness and petulance.\u00a0 Nor do we build peace in the world by ill-tempered insults.<\/p>\n

\u2018That is why I felt I had to reassure the Russian Ambassador that the British people as a whole are not warmongers and do not share such views.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sir Michael was first elected as an MP in 1983 at the height of the Cold War.\u00a0 He clearly has not adapted his view of the world since then at all.<\/p>\n

\u2018It may not happen immediately, but at her next reshuffle, Theresa May should sack this sabre-rattling relic and appoint a good-tempered, Christian man of peace.\u2019<\/p>\n

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