Tim Farron Leader Of The Limp Dums

[whiskeryron]

This guy is on TV at the moment & I cannot believe what I am hearing. He reckons that if they can win the General Election ( pigs of course can already be seen flying over Westminster ) they will hold another Referendum to put right the incorrect result the British people have already made. I demand on behalf of the British People who have made a Democrat choice that this traitor be held in The Tower Of London to await trial on a charge of Treason.

[agchristie]

Charge of Treason? Nah, the lack of success when the GE result is known will speak volumes.

Good enough for me.

[scooping]

He's got to be the most lightweight of all Liberal leaders.

[theshedman]

Was the worse interview I think I have seen. He seemed incapable of answering a question of any type. How on earth did the Lib Dems pick this idiot to be their leader.

[Jackdaw33]

After the last GE there wasn't a great deal of choice.

[Zacs-Master]

'I demand on behalf of the British People.....'

Only a Gnats wotsit over half the British people, surely?

[youngmafbog]

The lib dems can say what they like this time round, no chance of being in power in any shape or form.

He is entitled to his view, but his view does make him seem very undemocratic.

[mikey4444]

Not sure why people are continually having a go a Farron. The Libdems are only likely to end up with 3 seats on June 9th....they are in a typical 3 party squeeze.

Lets not be nasty to poor Tim !

[ichkeria]

Maybe I am missing something here, but the thing about a general election campaign is, every party sets its policies and views out in a manifesto. The "what if we win" scenario. Most parties know fine well they aren't going actually to win the election, but that is beside the point. Everyone knows May is still going to be PM come Jun 9, but that doesn't, and nor should it, prevent all the others from making their position clear on a wide range of issues. As I said before, were the Lib Dems by some wonderful miracle to sweep May's and Corbyn's lot aside and come through on the Big Day that would almost certainly mean Brexit was a dead duck anyway.
It's a "what if" scenario, you know, like there's "small" and "far away" :-)

[AB Editor]

I assume Nick will be making a comeback after the GE?

Assuming they have any seats at all?

[youngmafbog]

Perhaps people are having a go at Mr Farron because they would like to see a real alternative to Labour and the Tories?

The lib Dems were never going to win this time round but it should be their priority to rebuild the party by gaining seats, even if it is just a few at a time. The way to do that is have sensible costed and reasonable policies regardless of whether you are going to implement them or not. At least that is what I would do.

[mikey4444]

YMB...the Libdems will never win an Election !

[ichkeria]

The Lib Dems seem to me just about the only semi-sensible party just now. They have not made the breakthrough in the polls because while on the one hand you'd think there might be a space for them to walk into vacated by the other parties, they've got squeezed, as so often happens, by the juggernauts on either side, especially, dare I say it, by a lot of wild and uncosted promises from Labour and the fact that there is probably only limited mileage to be got from an "anti-Brexit" bounce. Common sense often goes out the window in election campaigns, dare I say it. We saw this last time when Tory central office spammed marginal constituencies with lies about a coalition between Labour and the SNP.

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mikey4444
Not sure why people are continually having a go a Farron. The Libdems are only likely to end up with 3 seats on June 9th....they are in a typical 3 party squeeze.

Lets not be nasty to poor Tim !



You do make me laugh, mikey.
Swap Farage for Farron and you can see my point.(possibly)

[jim360]

I suspect an "anti-Brexit bounce" will only happen if, once the deal is concluded, it turns out that it was a bad decision after all. For the moment I suspect the problem the Lib Dems face is that: most Leave voters (obviously) haven't changed their mind; most Remain voters probably weren't that committed to the idea that Brexit was terrible, just probably not worth the trouble, but now that it's been voted for let's make the best of it and see how things are afterwards; and the remaining "hard Remainers" probably recognise that there aren't enough of them to catapault the Lib Dems to power, so why bother voting for them if it will just make it easier for the Tories to form a strong majority?

Or, perhaps, haven't forgiven the Lib Dems yet for forming that coalition/making that promise over Tuition Fees...

[Kathyan]

I only caught the end of his interview as I switched to BBC for Eastenders, but boy does that guy Farron ramble on and on but doesn't actually say anything! As my Mum used to say 'he opens his mouth and the wind blows his tongue about'!

[mikey4444]

Jim......the Libs will be ruing that so-called coalition for a generation. I predicted that in 2010 and its all come true. Devils and long spoons.

If it goes as expected next week, they could be down to a very small handful of seats, maybe 3-4, and would find themselves back in the days of Jo Grimond and Jeremy Thorpe, which some of us will remember.
( although without the pillow biting one hopes )

In other words, a complete irrelevance.

[theshedman]

People are having a go at Tim "nice but dim" because of the way he came over on the Andrew Neil show last night. Kathyan has got it about right. The Lib Dems will be lucky to get any seats after that.

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "The Lib Dems seem to me just about the only semi-sensible party" - come on! sensible? by any measure they are swivel eyed clueless loonies and their leader is a religious nutcase!

[saintpeter48]

Clegg and his betrayal of the students just about sums up this party, sold his soul for a bit of power. Farron seems like a patronising pussy to me, him and his cohorts bleating on about the 'people didn't know what they were voting for', shut up man, I voted against entering the 'common market' back in the 70s and i voted for brexit last June, I knew exactly what i was voteing for! Lib Dems are finished and it'll be 20 years before they recover, if at all.

[whiskeryron]

Well said saintpeter48