Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Sheilbh]

I know it's a state religion and all that, but having a government minister appoint someome to a religious position just feels so odd.

In fairness it is basically a formality, like judges are technically appointed by the Lord Chancellor/Minister for Justice but they're given a very short list (of one or two) by a judicial committee and can, at best, ask for an alternative.

What's actually perhaps funnier and weirder is the actual process. There's public consultations and "listening exercises". Plus a committee of the great and the good of modern British society - so the people who do decide who to nominate (the Anglicans' Conclave) include a former Director-General of MI5 (the chairman), a law firm partner, a former editor of editor of the Law Reports, a local councillor and former chair of two NHS trusts (all of whom have been involved in the CofE in some way or other. Plus some clergy, including representatives of the wider Anglican community such as a Maori priest and the Bishop of Kumasi in Ghana.

Basically the sort of committee and sort of people who sit on every appointment body in Britain - so very much a state church