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Caron Lindsay

Max Wilkinson: Why is the BBC following Farage around like a lost puppy?

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 10th September 2025 - 9:49 am

Our Culture and Media spokesperson Max Wilkinson MP, has written to the head of OfCom requesting that the BBC carries proportionate coverage of political parties.

It’s hardly surprising. We have 72 MPs, Reform have 5. Yet the BBC pumps out wall to wall Farage like he is some rock star. I thought Chris Mason knew better, but he wrote about the Reform conference with the excitement of a child in a sweetie shop next to a McDonalds. 

While Reform spit like sausages in a pan, our MPs get on and get stuff done – from Josh Babarinde getting the Government to agree to a specific offence of domestic abuse, to Roz Savage getting the Government to agree the principles of her Climate and Nature Bill, to Max himself getting renewable energy into every new home via his “sunshine bill.” Then there’s Christine Jardine achieving recognition and support for bereaved children. That’s just off the top of my head – four things that make a tangible difference for people and planet.

While these might not be as adrenaline pumping as the fire and brimstone Reform vomits over everyone they disapprove of, Lib Dems bring a lot more good in the world and get sod all recognition. That is not good enough. And it is not down to lack of trying on our part.

I’ve been critical of our core messaging being too timid and I stand by that. We do need to be more punchy in standing up to the racist mob.  But I also think that we are not being given our fair share of the media pie and that our public service broadcaster needs to do better.

In an email to party members, Max Wilkinson said that the BBC follows Farage around like a lost puppy:

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Caron Lindsay

You wouldn’t think the Lib Dems had come second from the media coverage

By Caron Lindsay | Sun 5th May 2024 - 1:20 pm

It took Laura Kuenssberg 52 minutes to get round to talking about the Lib Dem success on her show this morning. And the fact that we got more councillors than the Conservatives for the first time in 28 years got the most perfunctory of mentions.

To add insult to injury, there were 3 Conservatives and 2 Labour people in the studio and nothing at all from us.

And it wasn’t from lack of effort on our part, given that Tim Farron was, rightly, complaining on Twitter:

Errrr…

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Caron Lindsay

Ed Davey calls on Government to make it easier for retired health professionals to work

By Caron Lindsay | Sat 2nd January 2021 - 1:21 pm

We’ve all seen some pretty scary things on social media and the news about the strain that some hospitals, particularly in the South East, are under.

In the past few days, I’ve seen accounts of a friend’s relative waiting hours for an emergency ambulance and then spending more than a day in A & E before a bed could be found in a ward.

Just on my social media, I am seeing several people each day testing positive. I’m aware of people having the virus, too, although, thankfully, nobody I know has been seriously ill with it. However, the so called “mild” version is extremely unpleasant.

With all this in mind, you can just imagine the stress that front line health workers must be facing. Exhausted already by the first wave and the race to catch up with the backlog of things that didn’t happen during it, the intensity of the second wave is at times overwhelming for them.

And that’s before any of them catch the virus and have to take time off themselves.

They need reinforcements, so it would help if retired health professionals could take some of the strain, even if it is covering things away from the front line.

But apparently the system makes it difficult for that to happen seamlessly.

Our Ed Davey has got himself into the Sun today, calling on Matt Hancock to sort this out. He said:

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