Who will rid of of this troublesome priest

This morning's front page in the Telegraph reports the latest intervention of the clergy into the political arena.

This time it is our old friend Dr Rowan Williams who in an interview with the paper

draws a parallel between the Nazis and the UK Government's policies for tackling the downturn, which he says fails to take account of the "particular human costs" to the most vulnerable in society

and warns ofadds that

the dangers of "unconditional loyalty to a system" that turned into a "nightmare" in Germany under Hitler, in which only certain groups and ideas were valued, while others were deemed dispensable and suffering was ignored

.by citing

the lectures given by Karl Barth, a theologian who was driven into exile by Hitler, who had claimed that one of the benefits of Christianity is that believers are able to live without the "principles" that drive politics.

It is probably not the thing that Gordon wanted to here as he beginnings his Xmas break and follows his comments last week that the government's fiscal strategy was like

"an addict returning to a drug".