@valeriemgray I have no pearls. I have a once-shiny, now aged, Blackburn Rovers lapel badge. I could clutch that if you like… only the pin’s a bit loose now…
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Tim Farron
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Tim Farron
@timfarron
MP for Westmorland & Lonsdale. Former leader of @LibDems Promoted by M Barwise on behalf of T Farron both at Acland House Yard 2 Stricklandgate Kendal LA9 4ND
Kendal Katılım Ekim 2009
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Here’s Tim clutching his pearls.
Tim Farron@timfarron
It is insulting to every working class family to suggest that it’s somehow part of our culture to be vile, nasty and sexist and that anyone appalled at the Reform candidate in Makerfield’s comments is somekind of middle class pearl clutcher.
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@Richboxingbets @Macbeveridge All human beings are capable of being unpleasant to and about others - the idea that this is peculiar to working class people is complete patronising bobbins peddled by people who rarely talk to anyone normal.
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@timfarron @Macbeveridge We know you're clueless - or playing cynical politics - if you think that adult working class males don't regularly make 'inappropriate' sexual innuendos about women and their assets. In fact the same goes for women.
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It is insulting to every working class family to suggest that it’s somehow part of our culture to be vile, nasty and sexist and that anyone appalled at the Reform candidate in Makerfield’s comments is somekind of middle class pearl clutcher.
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@Macbeveridge What? Being unnecessarily offensive about people? How dare you assume working class ‘ordinary Brits’ are as unpleasant as you? Do one, indeed!
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@timfarron Tim you know jacksh*t about the working class. That bloke spoke for many of us ie ordinary Brits now branded far right. Honestly, you just need to do one…
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@James_M_Yates @PhoneHonkie I got some A levels so my family immediately becomes retrospectively middle class… right. Thanks for the clarification.
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@timfarron @PhoneHonkie Oh fuck off Tim, you went to uni which immediately alienated you from the bulk of Lancastrian working class types of your generation. Not only that, you got involved in student politics and were elected a student president.
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@HopkinsSean1694 Nah. It screams ‘don’t be a wazzock’. Consider yourself telt.
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@timfarron This screams 'please don't criticise us'.
You're not a protected class. If you had a real job you'd be fired.
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@timfarron Our? Fuckoff with our, you ain't working class
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@reform_yes @Olicanarama Hmmmm….. you appear not to be familiar with my work…
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@timfarron @Olicanarama You dont really though do you ? And if occasionally you did speak to ordinary people prey tell what they really think of you 🤣🤣
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@Olicanarama Are you suggesting that I should walk the streets, knock on doors and talk to people of different kinds week in week out come rain or shine? Now there’s a thought…
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@timfarron The selective bile just shows how detached you really are from the normal public.
Appreciate that Reform are dwarfing your performance but your comments only demonstrate that you are out of touch.
Walk the streets, Farron!
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@PhoneHonkie The assumption that to be working class is to be rude, demonstrates that you’ve not met many of us. It is patronising guff.
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@timfarron Well stop saying it is "insulting to every" then...
Because you don't speak for all of that group
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@timfarron @DPJHodges I’m working class.
You sound like a middle-class prick.
Is that vile and nasty? Or just getting straight to the point.
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Nearly missed the match - forgetting there were no buses to Newcastle station (it being bank holiday 🙄). A Liverpool supporting, Labour Party member called John drove me to the station, I made it to Wembley. I’m forever grateful. What a wonderful day. Yellows! Yellows! Yellows!
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@robertrea @FlickRea I’m so so sorry to hear this. Your mum was a remarkable person, genuinely an inspiration to loads of us. Sending my love and condolences to you all.
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I’m very sad to have to say that my mother @FlickRea ,who served with distinction as the Liberal Democrat councillor for Fortune Green ward on Camden Council for 35 years until her retirement in 2021, died early this morning at the age of 88. She’d been ill for some time.
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@c_r_5 It was a clear penalty, even if he did make a meal of it . I’ve watched it often enough. We got an even more legit pen in the 2nd half and Muggleton saved it, so it kind of evened itself out. And Speedie helped get you up a couple of years later
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@Andy13946802 Exactly! I remember being devastated when we sold him - in part exchange with some bloke called Shearer (of whom I was, at that point, unaware…)
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@timfarron Unbelievable day- went with my Dad on the coach. Speedie was only with us for a season, but what a season it was! Would love him in today’s squad!
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@marcogiann @GavinBarwell …or is foolishly complacent? I mean, it’s not as if those paroxysms haven’t done the UK enormous harm down the years…
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@GavinBarwell Allow me: It's no wonder that Continental nations which have experienced political paroxysms.- occupation, dictatorships, unstable governments, economic incompetence - should want to tie their rafts together . The UK, with 1,000 years of institutional continuity, doesn't need it.
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I always wonder whether people like Simon ever even ask themselves why pretty much every other country in Europe thinks otherwise i.e. is either a member or desperately trying to become one?
Simon Cooke@SimonMagus
@GavinBarwell It is a really dumb idea though. There is that.
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@OfGadsden Well it’s completely true - whether it’s relevant is of course debatable.
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@timfarron No, mate, your story sounds like bollocks; the other chap is correct and I attended many games around the country back in the day.
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Hmmm. A very good friend of mine at a Birmingham city away game in the early 80s, tells the story of the angry Blue Noses chanting ‘SDP, SDP, SDP..’ at the mounted police corralling them in the ground. Basically, don’t read too much into this…
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
I'm a lifelong football fan and longstanding labour movement activist. This sort of thing - the routine chanting of abuse by football fans towards a Labour prime minister - is something very new. I don't actually like it much - as Tony Benn said, politics should be about "issues, not personalities" - but it does serve as further proof of how much things are shifting in our country and how the anger of working-class people is growing. We need to listen to them.
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