Do you think that just possibly the reason why the Torygraph wote this particular leader was so that they could use the word above?
As far as privatizing the Chirch of England goes, this sounds like rather a good idea, although the idea of performance related pay sounds a bit iffy. Currently, as far as I understand, CofE clergymen all get the same (small) stipend no matter what but they still have an incentive to perform well since they can be chucked out by the PCC if they don't meet expectations. I.e. a clappy happy evangelical will tend to get the bums rush from a staid high church congregation and vice versa. I agree that it probably isn't something the government should waste its time deciding but then as far as I can tell it doesn't anyway since the actual mechanics of setting stipends etc etc is done by the various bureaucrats employed by the Church Commissioners. In otherwords the CofE is already de facto privatized and de jure privatization is unlikely to make a difference. If the desire is to have perfomance related pay for priests then we need to remove the whole hierachy abd bureaucracy which would make the C of E about the same as certain varieties of Methodists.