I see that Reform has launched a “Christians for Reform” movement for the sort of true believer who thinks that “turn the other cheek” is a reference to mooning someone you don’t agree with.

At the launch Sarah Pochin MP* said that “we are fundamentally a Christian country”; which might be seen as trying to bolt the door after most of the horses have fled. At the last census fewer than half of the population identified as Christian (46%: 13% fewer than ten years earlier); and these combine a multitude of sins. Most of them embracing the sort of values that Nigel Farage sees as “woke”, and gives as the reason for not going to Church.

So, Reform believes in Christianity, but not the Christianity expressed by the Church of England, or, for that matter, Jesus.

Lets see…

“Love thy neighbour as thyself”.

“It is easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than a rich man attain the kingdom of heaven”.

Neither of those will fit neatly in the manifesto.

Which makes Anne Widdicombe’s remark that this launch was “the day when Reform and Christianity are merged” sound like an attempted hostile takeover.

Similarly Tommy Robinson’s Union Jack bedecked Carol Service in Whitehall billed as “putting Christ back into Christmas”, comes across as stuffing Him back in there hard whether He likes it or not (once He’s had His head shaved, a bulldog tattooed on his forearm and his sandals replaced with bovver boots). I do wonder what they were singing…

Possible slogans for a Christian Nationalist Christmas.

There is definitely no room at the Inn.

The only good Samaritan is a dead Samaritan.

Blessed are the gobby.

Peace and Goodwill are for wimps.

Forgive us our historic trespasses, but crush those who trespass against us.

*Last autumn Pochin famously complained about adverts being too “woke” because they were “full of Asian people”. So, she may not have noticed, is the Bible.