There is an interesting article in the current Tablet ( http://www.thetablet.co.uk) dealing with "disestablishment" of the Church of England - the CoE is currently headed by the Monarch with the Prime Minister being involved in making such decisions as who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury (the leader of the Church.)
The following quote from Clifford Longley's Tablet article reminds me of the WTS.
All this seems to have stopped dead under Dr Carey’s leadership. This is not good news for the Church of England, or the country. Edmund Burke had an invaluable principle that if a constitution was not able to bend under pressure, it would eventually break. He cited the British ability to resist the revolutionary temptations that France had succumbed to as proof enough. Many people saw creeping disestablishment as a good application of Burke’s law. Creeping was better than rushing. But we are no longer creeping, and it appears that the leaders of the Church of England have decided to dig in on the present line – thus far and no further.LPH