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The Lib Dem Glee Club have written a song about Tim Farron, and it's exactly as brutal as you might imagine.

Glee Club is the party's truly bizarre annual singalong.

Every year on the last night of party conference, literally hundreds of activists gather to sing bawdy, often quite mean-spirited songs about politics.

And they frequently take aim at the leading lights of their own party.

For example, one notorious song, included in this year's songbook for the third year running, mocks late-Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy over the alcoholism that led to his early death.

And this year, former leader Farron's problem with gay sex is the target of their satire.

Farron was blasted in the run-up to the last election, when he admitted his Christian faith led him to believe gay sex was a sin.

Of course, once it was out there, it became more or less the only question he was asked for the remainder of the campaign.

So, obviously, Glee Club will tonight have the option to sing It's A Sin, to the tune of the Lowe & Tennant's 1987 hit of the same name.

Here's some highlights from the lyrics

A Christian can't become PM,

Except for, you know, all of them,

Please feel sorry for poor Tim.

So when I flounced off in a huff,

But won't shut up about this stuff

At least I'm not a puff,

That's a sin.

Here's a few more delightful entries from this year's Glee Club songbook

Arlene - to the tune of Dolly Parton's Jolene

(Image: PA)

Your views on women make us weep,

The cash you want is rather steep,

I'm crying when I hear your name, Arlene,

Your energy scheme was rather strange,

You don't believe in climate change,

But I must now govern with you, Arlene

Gold Stars (On My Flag) - to the tune of Three Lions

(Image: REUTERS)

We lost the vote

We lost the vote

We lost it

Went and lost the vote

The Pallid Pink Flag - to the tune of Labour anthem The Red Flag

The party's flag is pallid pink,

And old Madeira is our drink,

Though Labour sneers and Tories plot,

We will remain a moderate lot,

Then raise our banner shoulder-height,

For to do more is impolite,

We are so middle-of-the-road,

Our guiding light's the Highway Code.

'The Land' It Is Amazing - to the tune of Bob Dylan's The Times they are a changing

OK, this one will take a bit of explaining.

You see, the Lib Dem Glee Club has an inexplicable fondness for 19th century liberal folk anthem The Land.

And when we say 'a fondness', last year they sang it at least four times in the couple of hours we were at Glee Club. At one point they sang it twice in a row.

So it was with some delight that we learned that this year they have gone meta and written an entire song about how much they love the other song.

Here's an extract:

Come Gather round liberals, wherever you stand,

It will all be okay if we just sing The Land,

Even though our party is critically panned,

One song will stop us decaying,

We will start up our singing lest we hit the sand,

For The Land: it is amazing.