Category: Cumbria MPs

By Father Paige Turner

THE Very Rev, Saint Timothy of Farron, tweeted for many in Cumbria this week after Tuesday’s horrific crash on the M6.

The MP – who God prays to every day – wrote on X that the collision was “beyond heartbreaking”.

Heartbreaking has long been one of Tim’s “go-to” words, so to go beyond heartbreaking is new territory for him.

In parliament alone this year, the MP for Wilderness and Loonsdale has used the word “heartbreaking” five times.

The Cumbria Chronic has had a little look back at some of the other issues that have shattered Tim’s fragile ticker.

• Millwall having to move football grounds (2017)
• Child poverty figures (2018)
• The cost of food (2022)
• Crashes on the A590 (2023)
• The planning system (2022)
• Flooding (2024)
• Farmers losing their farms (2024)
• Refugee homelessness (2024)
• Mental health (2023)
• The NHS during Covid (2020)
• Asylum seeker deaths (2023)
• The lack of housing (2022)
• The lack of a radiotherapy unit in Kendal (2022)
• The abundance of second homes (2022)
• Illegal immigration (2020)
• Climate change (2021)
• Storm Desmond (2019)

By every possible measure, Tim is not a bleeding-heart Liberal, but a breaking-heart Liberal.

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