The leader of the Liberal Democrat Party resigned yesterday in a ‘shock announcement’ that at least 27 people worldwide may possibly have heard. And at least 9 of those said ‘who?’.

Tim Farron has found it increasingly difficult to reconcile being a political party leader, even of that little lot, with his ‘Christian beliefs’. Which, considering we are, nominally, a ‘Christian country’ is a bit odd. So you’d think. But Tim’s version of ‘Christianity’ is that of the re-born variety. In which the victim of the re-birth has to adopt values that were cool and hip just when ‘BC’ became ‘AD’. Hugging trees was big, even though they’d never heard of Gwyneth Paltrow. Turning other cheeks was all the rage. While us Jews were busy slaying other people’s first-born and sending over plagues of locusts, the Christians were all about sacrifice and giving. Values that, although commendable, are never going to win you much in the post-Corbyn landscape.

Gay men had not been invented in the year 0001 (although rumours of Jesus himself and the word ‘closet’ were often used together.) No-one had abortions back then. Because there were no back streets. Just mud. And no-one needs to legalise mud. So Timbo, when faced with such concepts found great difficulties. Because of the now morally liberal (should have been a clue there, Tim) values and the rights of women that certainly didn’t exist in biblical times (would Mary have voted for a ‘virgin birth’? I think not) he has had grave doubts. He simply couldn’t bring himself to say that homosexuality was a ‘sin’ even though he believed it with every Christian fibre in his hair shirt.

In brief, re-born Christians have difficulty existing in the real world. Let alone being a (minorly) significant part of it. So Tim is retiring from politics to become a nun. He’s being re-virginised (you can do anything with money), buying some new sandals and will spend his days at Oxford Circus with a sandwich board shouting how ‘JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR!!!’ ‘ALL SIN IS… ERRRR.. SINFUL!!!’ ‘HARRY KANE IS NOT A REAL GOD!!!!’ Though arguably, more people will take note of his words than they ever did when he was leader of the Lib-Dems,

Just by the way, 2 unbelievably horrendous things yesterday, NEITHER of which were anything to do with terrorism. The simply awful and (you just KNOW) probably very preventable fire in North Kensington yesterday and the nutter-with-a-rifle shooting up Trump supporters in America. Almost makes you feel that the terrorists are just not pulling their weight any more. We can hope.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx