It's hard to shed a tear for Dr Giles Fraser, the canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, who has resigned this morning. This is the Left-wing priest who told the Metropolitan Police to go away when they tried to clear the 'Occupy London' protesters from the steps of St Paul's after their attempt to occupy the London Stock Exchange backfired. It was an impulsive act on the protesters' part and, had the police been allowed to go about their business, they would have moved on somewhere else – possibly even gone home. The whole protect could have been nipped in the bud. But no. Dr Fraser told the nasty policemen to go away and insisted that they were all God's children. He even invited the placard-waving loons to Sunday worship. History doesn't record how many of them took him up on that invitation – zero? – but they have remained outside St Paul's ever since. (Or, at least, their tents have.) The upshot is that the Cathedral has had to shut its doors to the public, resulting in losses of £20,000 a day. (To read more, click here.)
