"This Synod defeat of archbishops should be celebrated by many, will massively increase chance for Ordinariate to succeed," tweeted Ruth Gledhill of the Times on Sunday. She was referring to a last-minute amendment to the legislation introducing women bishops in the Church of England, tabled by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York – as one Anglican blogger complained on the all-comers platform The General Synod Blog, "without speaking to any other group, just days before Synod". The amendment would have allowed traditionalist parishes to have an alternative male bishop if they didn’t want a woman.