And so what? 70%+ of regular churchgoers are 55 and older and among people under 45 non-Christians outnumber Christians. So, like I said, to the extent to which churchgoing is a dying trend, the Church of England is a dying trend. 1/3 of the churchgoing population is not an insignificant number, especially when that number doesn't include affiliates like the Church of Scotland and Church of Ireland, whose churchgoing rates are much more in proportion with overall affiliation rates. It would also help if you got your numbers from the same source, an elementary rule of statistics, if you're going to lecture me about it.
"I don't see how. He was talking about the Church of England alone, and never talked about their response to government spending cuts."
Well considering that the main, or really only point of criticism the churches have made is on the issue of welfare reform, that is the crux of the claim for the C of E being an "opposition". And I don't really give a fig if he was talking about the C of E alone, since all the churches *made the same point* so the *same categorization would apply*.
I can't tell if you're intentionally being obtuse or what. I think you're just back to your normal "let's contradict Putin33 for no reason" self. Glad to have you back. Not really.