Farron the secret conservative and a classic own goal
by Will Jones, The Conservative Woman:
Gay sex and Tim Farron are back in the news again to entertain us all. It feels a bit like watching a farce – you know, the kind where you want to hide behind the sofa as the excruciating plot unfolds and the hapless lead digs himself deeper and deeper into a hole from which his dignity has no hope of escaping intact. Oh no, what will he say this time? You don’t want to watch, but you can’t take your eyes off it – you have to know how it ends.
Tim Farron does seem to be his own worst enemy. By all accounts an irrepressibly Nice Guy, he is an adherent of a very marginal political position these days – highly socially conservative personal beliefs alongside highly socially liberal policy commitments. To most people this seems plainly incoherent, but to him and others like him (a small group found mainly in the Lib Dems) it makes perfect sense – to them, liberals are people united not by personal beliefs on things such as religion and morality, but by a commitment to defending one another’s freedom to live according to their own personal beliefs and morals (including conservative ones).
In an age where to be less than fully signed up, heart and soul, to the ultra-PC, multicultural, feminist, pansexualist agenda is practically a hangable offence, and certainly a sackable offence, this kind of position is incomprehensible and reeks of hypocrisy and bad faith. You might have thought that the PC ‘progressives’ would be pleased to have allies amongst social conservatives and evangelical Christians, but that would be to underestimate the imperative they feel to ensure conformity of belief in their progressive creed and not merely support for its public expressions. They don’t just want your vote, they want your heart. If you thought Britain abolished its Test Acts in the 19th century, think again.
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