Tim Farron Election 2017

Thank you. And especially thank you. Theresa May wouldn't have this,

would she? Allegedly, Theresa May visited Cornwall yesterday. I say

allegedly, but apparently she didn't meet an independent voter, and it

strikes me that there is a theme developing in this election, which

is Theresa May and the Conservatives taking Britain for granted,

believing that this election is something she has got in the bag,

not a contest but a coronation as far as she is concerned. Tamara's

County Council elections, we have an opportunity to say we will be taken

for granted. -- tomorrow's County Council elections. If you agree with

the Lib Dems on everything or not quite everything, you surely must

agree that Britain needs a strong opposition so this Government can be

held to account. There is a vacancy for an opposition in this country,

and the Lib Dems are to bid for that vacancy and to fill it. We believe

that the worst goverments other ones with the weakest opposition. The Lib

Dems are here to be the opposition up and down this country in the

local elections tomorrow. I urge people to cast their vote for the

Lib Dems to stop the Conservatives taking you for granted in this

election that they assume is merely a coronation, and to give us real

hope that things are beginning to change. Yesterday, we saw the Lib

Dems reach our highest ever membership figure, passing the

record of 101,000. We are now beyond that figure, and that was our

highest under Paddy Ashdown in the mid-1990s. Something has changed in

British politics, and that is people of all ages, but especially young

people, wanting dizzy a different outcome for this country than the

one that is currently being offered to us. If you believe that Britain's

end point can be better than the one we are currently heading towards,

then the Lib Dems are your only hope. Whatever you think about this

Jean-Claude Juncker - Theresa May spat of the last few days, it

reminds us that that is the shape of things to come over the next two

years. Politicians and bureaucrats on other side of the channel

stitching up your future, your future, making sure that your life

chances are dictated by people in the 21st-century equivalent of

smoke-filled rooms. We say that is an outrage, whether you voted Leave

Remain, we believe that the people should have the final say on the

deal we have to live with. If the people reject the deal, we should be

entitled to stay in the EU. We are the only party offering the chance

of a better and different future. With the Lib Dems, you have the

chance to change Britain's future. Thank you.

APPLAUSE Without causing any injury...

Especially not to you. All done! Glad to see you all. Thanks for

coming out. Great to see you. Bless you, great to see you. Thanks

for coming along. You are doing a great job. There you go. Great,

great, very good. Good morning. Tags are being here. The FT said that

France and Germany... -- thanks for being here. France and Germany are

saying they are pushing for the Brexit bill to be ?100 billion will

stop you have bureaucrats on both side stitching up Ally Young

people's future. This is a deal we will all have to live with several

decades and it is something that is underwritten at the moment and will

be stitched up by people behind closed doors. The British people

won't be allowed to have their say. It is the strongest reminder yet the

of the Liberal Democrats' position that the people should have the

final say and have a final referendum. We should all support

that. Will we pay 100 billion? Might sense of the debate over what we

pay, if we pay, whether we will be in the single market, whether we

will share policing across the continent, all of that is unknown,

and the real message out of this spat between Jean-Claude Juncker and

Theresa May is that this will be what happens over the next two

years. None of us will be given a stay of it will be stitched up by

politicians in Brussels and London and the British people will be

carved out. The Lib Dems could it -- the Lib Dems are determined that the

people should have the final say. This is a tedious beginning to a

tedious process of politicians on both sides of the Channel trading

blows, making and deciding our future in the 21st equivalent of

smoke-filled rooms, and we have to live with the consequences of this

spat. We believe that people should have the final say, not the

politicians. Do you share concern about how complex the exit will be?

It will be complex, but more importantly, it will be damaging to

every family in this country. The average family is ?500 a year worse

off already at a concert Brexit. That is not what the people were

told. They were misled by the Government and Brexit is being

botched by our Government. The people must have the final say. Who

do we trust to make the final decision on the deal we end up

living with as a community and as a nation in these next two years? Do

you trust politicians or people? The Lib Dems trust the people. The link

talks cannot progress with the EU unless we agree to pay this ?100

billion bill in principle? The gossipy emerging from Downing Street

and Brussels, we should take it with a massive pinch of salt. The one

message we should get out is that you have politicians on both sides

trying to stitch up our future behind closed doors without the

people having a say. The British people must have the final say and

it must not be stitched up by politicians. Thank you.

I travelled especially here. I've been waiting to see you for two

years. I'm quite easily accessible. It's a genuine pleasure. If you do

get the seats, you will back Theresa May in her aims to make Britain

great again. Don't you think the best governments are the ones that

are challenged? You just challenged me. That is how I should be to

Theresa May. I am not saying you should challenge her. Don't say that

people who voted Leave didn't know what they were voting for. I didn't.

You've always said it. It wasn't on the ballot paper... In the

booklet... We all read it. If you had your way, the ballot paper would

be about a mile long. You make a choice, don't you? I want this, I

don't want that. I am now a pensioner, and if you do get in,

with a very small number of seats, went to Reza says we're going to

look after the pensioners, I shall look for your vote. God bless. Thank

you, Malcolm. We need more of that. Nice to talk to you. That would

never have happened to Theresa May, because she doesn't talk to anybody

normal. He is a regular human being with an opinion, and I respect him.

We are open to the public. This is an election about changing Britain's

future. You don't do that without talking to people who disagree with

you sometimes. Enough respect to the guy. He is in the majority. He voted

Leave. He was telling me what I thought about Leave voters. How dare

he? I know loads of them and I am probably the only leader of a major

party who has related to any. I was brought up in Preston...