Rachel from north London: This is an insult;

Rachel's father is a parish priest and honorary Canon who attended a clergy meeting at which the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, was the special guest. Clarke is also Rachel's father's MP,  so when no opportunity was provided for questions from the floor Rachel's father decided to do something about it:

My father tells me he at this point left his seat and strode up to Clarke, because he wanted to ask his question, and he said,

'Congratulations on fixing the meeting so that nobody can ask questions! You will have heard about Rev Julie Nicholson who is so angry she cannot forgive the bombers who killed her daughter on 7th July , well, I have a question, my daughter was feet away from the 7/7 Kings Cross bomb, and she and some other surivors have said they are not angry with the bombers, but with the Government, because there was no public enquiry. Why is there no public enquiry?''

Charles Clarke looked at my father ''in a very nasty way'', and then he said to my father

'' Get away from me, I will not be insulted by you, this is an insult'.

And he stormed past, and Dad was so upset he could not share Eucharist with this man,

and my father left the cathedral in despair.

Here endeth the lesson.

Via Andy at Yellow Swordfish