.@timfarron making his curry in Newport. We need to stop the govts rigid immigration rules. pic.twitter.com/29YkBeI2Gm— Lib Dem Press Office (@LibDemPress) June 18, 2016
Showing posts with label Tim Farron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Farron. Show all posts
Some Indian restaurants are so short of chefs they are employing Liberal Democrat MPs
Tim Farron listens to Straight Outta Compton for the first time
He gives his reaction to hearing N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton for the first time.
He also reveals his top three albums ever:
- Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
- The Clash’s first album (the US version because it’s got White
Man in Hammersmith Palais and Complete Control on it)
- Since I left you - The Avalanches
Yes, it's Chat-Show Tim
Charles Kennedy found that the path to public approval passed through chat-show studios. Now Tim Farron is taking it too.
The other day he appeared on Matt Forde's Political Party.(Me neither. Apparently it's something the young people listen to.)
You can hear how Tim did for yourself above.
He appears at around 19:30 if you find Forde's opening set palls after a while. He turns out to be a better interviewer than he is a comedian and Tim comes over very well.
And on Sunday he will be the latest guest on Ruth and Martin's Album Club.
That is a site where people are asked to listen to and write about a famous album they have somehow never heard.
Tim will be reacting to Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
Funnily enough Lord Bonkers recently wrote about the film of the same name - or at least something very like it:
Today I attend the Oakham premiere of a film I helped finance: ‘Straight Outta Nick Compton’. It tells the story of an opening batsman who is unjustly treated and records the controversial single “Fuck tha Selectors” as a result. I see from its evening edition that The High Leicestershire Radical (which I happen to own) has given it five stars.
Lord Bonkers' Diary: The jellyfish of the Lakeland fells
“There are no jellyfish in the Lake District,” our own Tim Farron told the prime minister the other day, displaying a strange lack of knowledge of his own constituency. Cameron, you may recall, told everyone to holiday in the North of England following the recent floods, before jetting off to Lanzarote himself.
Last time the PM was there he was stung by a jellyfish – I presume it had been reading about his welfare policy. Incidentally, if stung by the feared Rutland Man o’ War when swimming in Rutland Water, the consensus is that one should urinate upon the affected area or ask a friend to do so if it proves Hard to Reach. I am not sure if it makes it sting any the less, but it tends to take your mind off it.
Where was I? Oh yes, jellyfish in the Lake District. When the Kendal Mint Cake industry was established in the mid 18th century, its product was a beige colour. However, public taste changed and, by the accession of Victoria, had come to demand the pristine white bars we know today. It was found that the only safe and effective way of bleaching the cake was by the use of an extract of jellyfish, so they were introduced to the area. Ullswater and Thirlmere were soon simply teeming with the things.
Other means of whitening the mint cake were later found, which is why these lakes are today mercifully free of jellyfish. By then, however, some had escaped to the fells, where they live to this day. The unwary walker who strays too far from the path may yet find himself suffering a nasty sting.
Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West, 1906-10.
Previously in Lord Bonkers' Diary
Six of the Best 590
The House of Lords by-election to replace Eric Avebury is ludicrous and should be boycotted, say John Lubbock and Seth Thévoz.
"There will be no incumbents, and few of the ex-MEPs are expected to run ... So, there is every possibility that new names may emerge and end up as Liberal Democrat MEPs." Mark Valladares says the forthcoming selections for Liberal Democrat Euro candidates will be the most open yet.
Kyra Hanson on guerrilla gardening and the battle against concrete paving and private development in London.
"Verification and fact-checking are regularly falling prey to the pressure to bring in the numbers, and if the only result of being caught out is another chance to bring in the clicks, that looks unlikely to change." Kevin Rawlinson on the new plague of fake news stories.
Flickering Lamps visits Brompton Cemetery and returns with tales of soldiers and adventurers - and rumours of a time machine.
Lord Bonkers in 2015
[The Revd Hughes] tells me he has arranged for a locum vicar to take Divine Service and visit the sick whilst he is away.
“He’s young and keen and believes every word of the Liberal Democrat manifesto is the literal truth.”
I eye him levelly: “It’s not Farron, is it?”You may also enjoy these two posts from 2010:
Tim Farron sounds the right note on economics
Tim Farron gave a major speech on economics at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London on Thursday.
He set out three principles which he said will govern Liberal Democrat economic policy for the next five years:
- Invest now in infrastructure
- Back enterprise
- Take the long view
The fact is that the Tories aren’t really pro-free market capitalism at all. They are pro-corporate capitalism.
They are there to fight not for entrepreneurs, not for innovators who oil the wheels of the market, but for the status quo.
Don’t believe me? Look, not at what they say, but what they do.
An opportunity to cut taxes on business? Go for corporation tax to benefit the very largest of companies, not help small start-ups to grow.
An opportunity to diversify the energy sector? Withdraw the subsidies for renewables that would give small start-ups the opportunity to challenge the big six energy companies.
An opportunity to change banking as the major shareholder in RBS?
Rather than use the chance to create a real, diverse, regional banking sector, sell the stake at a loss and keep the bank intact as yet another too-big-to-fail institution, ill-equipped to finance small businesses.This manages to sound anti-Conservative without sounding soggy or socialist or corporatist.
At the same time, it poses a challenge to economic liberals in our party.
For economic liberalism should be a radical creed. It should involve the breaking up of monopolies and the introduction of competition of markets that are dominated by a few big players.
Too often, however, they make it sound like a slightly exasperated defence of the status quo. They give the impression that they resent any questioning existing concentrations of power in the economy.
Tim's speech points a way forward for all Liberal Democrats. I hope the party will unite around it.
