The church should speak out against the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

I think you're right to identify this as the important issue - though I think that the church is seen to be pretty irrelevant no matter what it says - mind you, if there were some more clergy marching against the cuts I think it would be harder for them to label it as a bunch of lefties and thugs.

During those fat years the rich did very nicely thankyou, while the poor stayed roughly where they were.  Now it has emerged that, during those fat years, we were all living on borrowed money.  And so suddenly we're all in it together!  Panorama tonight was looking at the example of middle England - the family on 40,000 pounds a year, saying that they were finding it hard to make ends meet when prices were going up and wages were going down.  Never mind them, what about the families on 30,000 or 20,000?  When every penny that came in before the cuts went out on food, heating, housing and clothing, what is going to happen when the income is 5% down on last year and the prices are 5% up?  Where can those families find that sort of money?