Ken Clarke blames the far-right and far-left for the mess

Tory MP Ken Clarke in a BBC interview on Thursday evening said that his country is in the mess it is in because of both the far-right and the far-left.

Ken Clarke served as a government minister during all 18 years of the Thatcher anf Major governments.

He is currently the Father of the House of Commons.

His comment about the damage caused by both far-right and far-left is interesting.

There is little or no far-left influence within the churches. But there is a strong far-right cohort, which is causing great damage and harm across the Christian churches. 

It would seem that a US-style hard conservatism is currently influencing the Irish Catholic Church.

The story in The Irish Times yesterday of New York priest Fr George Rutler makes for interesting reading.

And then the RTE documentary on Thursday claiming that Fr Patrick Peyton was in the pay of the CIA.