The Bishop of Southwark, Tom Butler, did an excellent job this morning kicking back to life the story about his drunken antics leaving the Irish Embassy’s Christmas reception last week.
Reports of how he had got so drunk that he’d climbed into the back of a random car and started throwing toys out the window and then claimed to parishioners that he had been mugged had pretty much disappeared after his boss, Arch Bishop Rowan Williams, supported his decision not to resign.
For reasons best known to himself Butler decided to call up the Today Programme and asked to go on to tell the world he had amnesia which he was taking very seriously. The cynical old hacks on Today, used to all kinds of dodgy damage limitation, must have been sniggering behind their hands as they mic’d up the Bishop.
Essentially, Butler used the 1970s New York pimp defence, best applied when said pimp gets caught coming out of another woman’s apartment:
“It want me – must have been someone looked like me. Who you gonna believe, bitch, me or yo’ lying eyes”.
Look forward to reading the story and calls for his resignation all over again between now and Christmas.
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