Another illiterate primate?

No, no this is not about chimps who can't read.... oh, all right, it isn't even a valid pun because the bishop in question isn't a primate.

But seriously, SumPon isn't all that long, and it doesn't use outrageously big, hard words, or complicated sentence strucutres, or dazzlingly acrobaticly complex concepts -- so why can't they get it through their pointy little mitres that they do not have the authority to bestow or withold permission for the Extraordinary Form?
Huh?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/feb08/brentwoodcatholicsincensed.htm

The first serious battle over the traditional Latin Mass has been fought in the diocese of Brentwood, where Bishop Thomas McMahon first banned parishioners from holding a Sunday Mass using the pre-Vatican II Missal – and then decided to grant permission for it.

The problem is that his permission was neither sought nor necessary. The parishioners of St Anthony of Padua, Forest Gate, followed Pope Benedict’s rules to the letter when they arranged for a weekly Mass in the extraordinary form. The parish priest, Fr Dennis Hall, was happy; so was the diocesan archivist, Fr Stewart Foster, who was going to say the Mass every week. The Latin Mass Society (LMS) was delighted. Not so the bishop.
At the end of January, Bishop McMahon “indefinitely postponed” the Mass while he explored the provision of the traditional liturgy in his diocese.

I was never one of those girls swooning over le Petit Prince, so I never read the entire thing, but isn't there a character, a king of some sort who wants to decree where a flower or something can be put, and is perfectly willing to decree whatever is going to happen anyway, and even change the decree if he finds he isn't being listened to, he just wants to be the one who gets to issue the decree? to pretend somthing has happened on his authority?
Yup...