He has a programme on GB News, in which he spreads antivax views, and general bigotry (pro-Enoch Powell, despite having mixed heritage).
Robinson undertook a two year course of theological studies at St Stephen's House, Oxford from 2020 to 2022, with the hope of being ordained deacon in the Church of England. However, he failed to be appointed to a curacy within the Diocese of London and so was not ordained deacon in the Church of England.[25]
Robinson subsequently submitted a subject access request to the Church to understand the decision. This revealed email conversations between Jonathan Baker, the Bishop of Fulham, and Rob Wickham, the Bishop of Edmonton, raising concerns about Robinson's "libertarian anti-woke, anti-identity politics, Covid-skeptical" political views and his use of social media, particularly Twitter, to disseminate them. The Diocese of London later issued a statement highlighting the "limited number of curacies available", emphasised that vacancies were carefully "considered on a case-by-case basis" and that "in this instance, it is felt that there is no suitable" curacy available that the diocese could offer.[25]
The decision to deny ordination to Robinson attracted criticism from conservative elements of the media, and within the Church, notably Angela Tilby, the canon emerita of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.[26] Robinson described it as a "very narrow minded" decision that was a result of his “anti-woke” views and criticism of “bleeding-heart liberal vicars”.[25]
Robinson left the Church of England for the Free Church of England where he was ordained as a deacon on 25 June 2022 by Bishop Paul Hunt, and appointed Minister-in-Charge at Christ Church, Harlesden.[1] The Free Church of England is a member the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans network of conservative episcopal churches.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_RobinsonSo basically, everyone in the CofE thought he is a wanker who they don't want to work with. Understandable. The punchline in Private Eye is that the "Free Church of England" website has, as a background to "About Our Church", a picture of a grand interior of a Victorian Gothic building, implying that's them. It is in fact the Natural History Museum, and their church actually looks like a council storage building:
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