"Separation of church and state My arse.?"
Here is yet another example of hypocritical nonsense, the uk is a christaian & catholic country by majority, why the hell should we not show our faith.
Are you telling me iran or any muslim country keeps there religon seperate from there state, absolute nonsense, there governments talk of nothing but religon.
I think the UK & most western countries do a good job of keeping religon out of our politics, mostly at the behest of our muslim friends living in our countries who demand a religous free government, unless it is a islamic one.
Is it written in our laws no it is not, we only do it to appease our muslim inhabitants who are offended by symbols of our religons.
Would any muslim country bow to the demands of westerners living in there country demanding religon to be kept out of governments, no they damn well would not.