Archbishops and taxation

Some things never change, in the week that saw the Archbishop of Canterbury still demanding that taxpayers fork out more money . It's  630 years ago this month since  thousands of rebel peasants descended on Canterbury Cathedral demanding the Archbishop be deposed.

It followed the introduction of a crippling poll tax which had been brought in under Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Sudbury, who was also the Lord Chancellor.

The Great Rising – also known as the Peasants' Revolt – saw Maidstone man Wat Tyler lead thousands of peasants from across Kent and the South East to attack Rochester Cathedral and then later break into Canterbury Cathedral during the celebration of high mass to demand that monks depose the Archbishop.

But it ended with bloodshed and the murder of Tyler and Archbishop Sudbury.

Half a millennium later still the old establishment expect the workers, poor, old and small business owners to pay vast amounts of money so that they, politicians,  Churches and NGO's can waste our money by spending it better than we can on their pet pork barrel projects.