It is the turn today of Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron for a personal reflection on the year in The Guardian:

In 2011 Westmorland and Lonsdale [Tim Farron’s constituency] has had some of the lowest unemployment figures across the whole of the UK.

On the surface this sounds like a fantastic statistic; however, it does not take into consideration the fact that we have among the highest rate of workers on minimum wage across the whole of Britain.

The average salary in the South Lakes is just £24,928 while average house prices are over £250,000.

We’ve gone someway to try and tackle this injustice with the removal of the second home council tax subsidy and back in October Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon Ltd made a successful bid to the Regional Growth Fund that will create up to 500 jobs in and around Kendal and safeguard a further 250 – a fantastic result for Gilkes and a fantastic result for the South Lakes local economy.

You can read Tim Farron’s piece in full here.