Well done Tim Farron

As you may have spotted, I wasn’t that impressed with the piece from Tim Farron and others about conference accreditation.

Full credit to Tim, today’s piece is much better – both in substance, in style and in saying this:

Firstly let me say sorry for the tone of the original Lib Dem Voice article – reading it back last night and reading everyone’s comments for the second time in a week (I have to say I like reading but not commenting myself!) it really did strike me that the tone was very off; so let me apologise for that.

I really do appreciate your views and comments and I have taken them all on board. I also appreciate the time people have taken to speak to me on the phone and let me know their concerns.

On the substance Tim says:

I have proposed that we should make exemptions to the accreditation process solely for those transgender colleagues (and potentially for others with identity-related concerns, i.e. those who have suffered domestic abuse).

Thank you Tim for listening and acting.