St Oswald's Magazine StOM 1706 | Page 8

Not The Vestry Report As there was no Vestry meeting in the month of May you will have to wait for the double edition of July & August to read about how the Vestry carries out good governance on St Oswald’s behalf. Morag McHaffie Secretary INSPIRES ONLINE: The free e-newsletter of the Scottish Episcopal Church ‘Project Brexit puts the integrity of the UK at serious risk’ Writing in The Times newspaper on 5 May The Rt Rev Dr Gregor Duncan, Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway says: “If it had not been for the people of England and Wales, the UK would not be leaving the EU. That may seem an eccentric way of stating the outcome of the EU referendum, but it is rather more than that because it denies legitimacy to the oft- repeated claim that “the British people” voted to leave the EU with its corollary that the UK Government must implement their will come what may. They did not, the people of England and Wales did. The claim rests on the StOM Page 8