Those who have passed through the Christmas street markets in Manchester’s St Ann’s Square may have noticed a glaring omission from the usual scene.
For it appears that Manchester City Council, in their glorious wisdom have seen fit to celebrate the birth of the Messiah in a lowly stable just over two thousand years ago under a shining star in Bethlehem, with a singing tree.
The populous of Manchester will thus be able to learn about the birth of Jesus Christ, not from the nativity scene, which for many years had stood in that spot in the form of a crib, and is now hidden away around the back of St Ann’s Church, but from the musical accompaniment of a plastic tree.
Which really says all you need to know about the council’s attitude to Christmas and mammon.
