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LOL, what a loser, I wonder why he waited a week to do it.

wtf, you fool

In a statement, he said he was "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader".

Please read my YA fantasy novel Tim Farron and the Lib Dem Fightback.

haha what a smug prick

Jo Swinson is the bookies favourite, with Vince Cable in second. Cable seems unlikely considering he's only two years younger than Paddy Ashdown.

he's only suspected of being a bigot bc he refuses to say he isn't and this suspicion is evidence our society isn't liberal and tolerant?

"OK, the homophobe has quit... do we have any women? Everyone else has a woman leader. Have we got any women MPs yet? I mean, ones who are better than Lynne Featherstone, of course... Joe who? I said woman MPs. She is a woman? She'll do."

Didn't like 80% of their MPs change over last week? Doesn't leave much to choose from.

Norman Lamb's still there. Ed Davey's back. Don't all cheer at once.

whither lembit opik in the libdem's hour of need

what better way to capture the nascent mood of anti-austerity abreast in the country than bedroom tax supporting jo swinson

Mark Oaten, where are you now?

Wow. Triggered by the Brian paddick resignation?

tiny beasts

weren't we all tbf

Mark Oaten, where are you now?

risky question iirc

In 2011 Oaten accepted a position as executive of the International Fur Trade Federation.

Liberals are a weird bunch.

Pretty clear from Farron's statement that he really did believe all the stuff people suspected.

_In 2011 Oaten accepted a position as executive of the International Fur Trade Federation._

i fuckin' bet he did, the dirty bastard

now farron retreats nursing a sense of injustice and lecturing everyone about tolerance, it's so gross

... cherishing his hard won majority of two men and dog.

'why can't u tolerate my intolerance i'm taking my ball and going home boohoo'

jog on you prick

lesley laird new shadow scottish secretary

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha fuck up ian murray

Owen Smith accepts Shadow Northern Ireland as penance.

ice cream all round should reduce the tension

I wld get in a few seconds of mirth before the despair set in if the new lib dem leader took them straight into another coalition with the tories

http://i.imgur.com/3Ev6K6m.gif

Lavery is the new party chair, Watson stays on as deputy to spare his ego.

lesley laird new shadow scottish secretary

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha fuck up ian murray

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Ian Blackford is a nasty piece of work and no mistake. Banned from Charles Kennedy's funeral for setting SNP activists down the 'Charlie The Alkie' route (including Brian Smith who ultimately was resigned from the party over it), Blackford campaigned on a "Where's Charlie" ticket despite knowing Kennedy was a full-time carer for his father and brother.

I'm kind of sad that I'm only seeing this photo for the first time today, as Tim goes into the dustbin of history

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nintchdbpict000321158564-e1493810446529.jpg?strip=all&w=960&quality=100

she just smelled his spaniel, i'd guess

"He .... he told me I'd burn in the fires of hell for all eternity, mummy!"

I just found out yesterday, the apparently very old news, that Corbyn is a manhole cover fan and takes pictures of them. I've only been looking at every manhole i walk past for the past 24 hours #corbynmania

a hobby he picked it up from his mother, just to complete the story

I have a passive interest in them, in that I'm always curious about their age and steelworks of origin.

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So no Shadow Cabinet jobs for Hilary Benn, Chuka Umunna, Yvette Cooper or Ed Miliband

Another excellent day.

I was mildly curious wrt Ed however they can all dutifully serves the needs of their constituents instead.

hillary benn getting snubbed is partic satisfying

i'd read JC wanted him in so maybe ed said no?

or maybe they want him salty on twitter

I suspect Ed M doesn't want to serve in the cabinet at the moment.

I think it's good that Owen Smith is back.

I read some numpt earlier saying Dan Jarvis should be the shadow defence sec, but his stock has gone so low it isn't even a snub.

I find it hard to have any respect for Smith. But I'm just glad JC has a full shadow cabinet and not in the shit position to have to double people up to anymore.

to

Why was Owen Smith bought back? Not cool imo xp - nah, sorry it...just isn't. And NI is a tough role given what's happening. Might be beyond him.

I like Tim Farron and I'm sorry he's resigned.
He was on the left of his party and I don't think this is good news for the left of UK politics, or for progressive alliance stuff, which I support.

As someone just said, if anything it increases the possibility of another Con-Lib coalition in the future.

Farron's personal / religious views remain quite mysterious to me but I don't really feel a need to know about them. It doesn't seem to me that they have affected his political actions much.

And yet - his speech today was odd, and did suggest something deeper and stranger - a genuine wrestling with (homophobic?) conscience vs liberal public duty, etc.

And the way he ended with that business about devotion to Christ - he turns out to be the most INTENSELY religious politican around, in a way that seems 'weird' and people can't handle.

I sympathise as a non-religious person, but also find this hypocritical as our society seemingly wants politicians to be religious ('the vicar's daughter', 'the son of the manse', 'the man guides by his Muslim faith'), yet ... doesn't REALLY want them to. It's good to be a vicar's daughter, but it's not good to actually say 'I have devoted myself to Jesus', the kind of thing real vicars are presumably supposed to believe.

I think there are a lot of uncomfortable inconsistencies around it all that one could examine at length. And that TF emerges as an odder or more unusual character than most political leaders. (All this and Prefab Sprout too!)

But the other angle is -- every day everyone is talking about 'the homophobic DUP' - maybe TF thought that context made his position the more unviable.

last para def otm i think

good on him for realising that I guess, but otoh fuck him for being troubled by homosexuality in 2017

Fuck, I thought ogmor was just joking about the prospect of another ConDem coalition. Could this actually be a thing?

This Smith lad might be a pharmaceutical bellend but if JC thinks he's best included for now I'll take it. He's surely had to look at the bellend spreadsheet and bring in one or two to neutralize the others before they start toynbeeing up the place

as a major player smith is a twerp but apparently he's well respected wonkwise by all sides in NI, and this will rankle been deeply as everything should