[Gayle]

I don't think there's any thing deep in the reason why religion is never used as a selling point in politics - i just think there are so many religions in England and no real dominant one (I know the main faith is supposed to be CofE but let's face it, their power is dwindling) and there are so few people who actually bother to vote that if a politician were to overly side with any faith they could easily alienate about 80% of the voting population.

Having said that though, I think religion does play a big part in politics in general i.e. abortion laws, homosexual laws etc - the churches have had opinions in these and politicians are very aware of those opinions when stating their own policies.