VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE DEFEATED

I am delighted that the vote of no confidence against Dr. Phillip Giddings, Lay Chair of the House of Laity in the General Synod has been resoundingly defeated by 80 votes to 47. This nasty motion of no confidence should, in my opinion, never have been proposed. Dr Giddings spoke at the recent General Synod against the motion to consecrate women as bishops and the vote of no confidence was proposed because of this.