To think Tim Farron has awful timing?

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Seriously? He chose today to publicly resign and have his little televised pity party?

Christ, I was relatively ok about the guy before this , but today was not the day!

Telegraph: Tim Farron resigns and admits it would be 'impossible' for him to be Liberal Democrat leader and 'remain faithful to Christ'

Bloody good thing he didn't win this election then or he would be buggered.

Tim Farron is not allowed to have faith but others do...

Oh come on Yoda, we are talking about the leader of a political party. Someone who willingly put himself forward as a potential leader of this country, I dont think this is the same as the empathy argument about noel vs fucking liam.

Anyone professing to be capable of running the country (even though he has now apparently changed his mind) should be capable of reading the mood of a given public situation. They are after all a representative for their constituents and the public first and foremost . So yes, he should have waited.

Bloody good thing he didn't win this election then or he would be buggered

He never had the remotest hope in hell of winning the election ... the last Liberal prime minister was Asquith in 1908.

Is your 'buggered' comment supposed to be funny?

Because it's coming across like tumbleweed rolling across the desert.

"Tim Farron is not allowed to have faith but others do..."

You know what interests me? I was actually really impressed by the fact that he followed the wishes of his party and voted accordingly even if those votes went against his personal beliefs. That's what parliamentary democracy means. So why can he suddenly not do that any more? What was he worried Paddick was going to say?

Course he's allowed to have faith. I also absolutely think he should be allowed to be the leader of the lib dems and have faith. I simultaneously think it's fucking abhorrent to think, let alone say, that gay sex is a sin, even within the context of that faith.

Bertrand That's an interesting point. What was the thing that Lord what's his face thought was beyond the pail? Tim's views weren't a secret. Maybe it's the DUP being on the scene?

BertrandRussell
What has Princess Diana got to do with the price of fish?
If you mean the emotive response to her death, hardly her fault - she was dead by then!

It's bizarre
DH is a member of the Lib party and he got an email " from" Farron at 5 talking about the future direction of the party and how they all needed to work together etc etc etc and then around an hour later there was another email "from" Farron saying that he felt leading a political party was at odds with his Christianity.
I didn't rate him anyway but that kind of cemented it for me, nut that I'm a supporter of the Libs anyway.

"Anyone professing to be capable of running the country (even though he has now apparently changed his mind) should be capable of reading the mood of a given public situation. They are after all a representative for their constituents and the public first and foremost . So yes, he should have waited"

Well then you're assuming that the public are in agreement with you about what the mood of any given situation is. It's not the public mood. It's your mood

No, you havent misquoted me, you confused me with the context of delivery. Apologies.

I dont profess to speak on behalf of the public, but I am a member of it.

How is "mood of a public situation" different to public mood?

And so am I.

I think we'll agree to differ

The cynic in me says a very damaging story is about to break.

Also, on that argument YOUR mood is different to mine and also not representative of the public as a whole. Therefore as we agree on this point you cannot surely disagree that on balance he should have waited to guage the public mood properly first? What harm would it have done to wait? I am not suggesting he has done harm to anyone by delivering the speech either, just that it was insensitive and poorly timed/thought out.

I know Fallen, you are right, it's not. I have apologised and asked MN to remove that post as I was incorrect.

baby the cynic in me agrees.

I always said on here that Farron could not lead his party from the front if it needed to fight for gay rights and women's reproductive rights.

The DUP are bringing that fight to England and Wales - and Farron can't take them on because, unlike his actual lib dem colleagues, he kind of agrees with the Duppers.

I predicted all this months ago.

I'm wondering about something breaking too. Seems odd that Lord what's his face should resign when all of this was already known about Farron since forever. So either it's something new or is in connection with the DUP being bigger on the Westminster scene.

I love Tim Farron. I'm really sad to hear about his resignation; he's a wonderful man and would make a great leader (bar that one issue I have with him on immigration).

I don't think he's done anything wrong at all.

It is utterly, utterly bizarre that Paddick would've chosen today. Shows extraordinarily poor judgement. We've already established that his resignation rather than Farron's is what initially made this a story. And yet he, unlike Farron, had a choice about speaking today. Unless he didn't.

Judge Farron on his voting record. He's a true liberal.

As for his timing: what Yoda said. A good many people on this thread are trying just a little too hard to take offence.

Um, hardly going today exactly where I live on here! But you do know that the flats were not all occupied by council tenants, right? Some are privately owned; some were let out privately. And not cheaply. E.g.:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-29718200.html