Did Bonfire Night Trump SPUC? We Want the Truth

The ever-vigilant Linen on the Hedgerow points out that a SPUC fund-raising event on 5th November in Bath will probably not take place, since no reply has been received from Bishop Declan Lang to a request to use the city's main church hall.

What are we to think?

We know that in "thinking Catholic" circles of the Blairite persuasion SPUC is an object of scorn, but has the disease infected the hierarchy as well?

Or perhaps the hall has already been ear-marked for a Guy Fawkes night party?

My mind is weary from boggling.