Aged and outraged: OAP army launch church seat rebellion

AH, the elderly. They’re such gentle folk. Quiet, slow, timid creatures; not terribly clued in, bless them, and so contented with their little lot.

That might have been the view of ministers as they sat around the cabinet table punching the subtract button on their calculators last week, but the crowd that thronged St Andrew’s Catholic Church yesterday put them right.

On foot, on sticks, in wheelchairs and with Zimmer frames, they filled the seats and flooded the aisles — relocating to the church after their numbers grew too great for the hotel function room booked around the corner.