Everyone’s favourite Segway riding electoral failure, Lembit Opik is hoping to combine his campaign to become Mayor of London with the other passion in his life – stand up comedy. Opik, whose debut comedy performance was awarded a charitable two stars by the Guardian, is to appear at Islington’s George Orwell Inn tonight, presenting an [...]
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Lembit Opik outlines urine strategy for Liberal Democrats
Lemit Opik is currently on Sky News’ paper review, where it took him less than two minutes to say something stupid: “Nick Clegg is putting some clear yellow water between us and the Conservatives.” At this time of crisis for the Liberal Democrats, its reassuring to hear the kidney function of the Deputy Prime Minister [...]
Lib Dem candidate fails to mention party until PAGE SIX of leaflet
With the mainstream media picking up our story on the curious absence of Nick Clegg on Liberal Democrat election literature, Scrapbook’s attention has now been drawn to a leaflet which neglects to mention the party at all until the sixth page. In what may set a new political record for the fewest mentions of party affiliation in [...]
Lib Dem establishment attack on expenses to derail Mayor Lembit
A weak voting record on expenses has become the latest ammunition in the Liberal Democrat establishment’s bid to stop Lembit Opik securing the party’s nomination for London Mayor. Claims made by the “flamboyant” former MP included a £2,500 plasma TV screen — but he also voted against tightening up expenses rules. In a blog backing Assembly member [...]
Lembit for Mayor!
Lechourous Daily Sport columnist and aspirant London Mayor Lembit Opik is back with a new campaign video, casting the former MP as the star of the BBC comedy series Citizen Smith. As The Indy’s diary column observes wryly, Wikipedia’s description of the series has relevance to Opik beyond comedy: Citizen Smith starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” Smith, a [...]
Does Grant Shapps have Malmö syndrome?
Last year, the National House-Building Council organised an all-expenses-paid junket to Sweden for MPs on the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Housing, for which NHBC provides a secretariat. Politicians on the jolly included Labour MP Gordon Banks along with the then opposition housing spokesmen Grant Shapps and Lembit Opik. In an extremely boring corporate video produced following [...]
Lib Dems getting desperate on London mayor candidate?
Faced with a “straight choice” between walking midlife crisis Lembit Opik and, erm, household names such as Jeremy Ambache, Shas Sheehan and Duwayne Brooks, the decision by the Liberal Democrats’ regional board to block a mayoral nomination shortlist being put to members in London last month didn’t come as a surprise. But if this tweet from the former [...]
Lembit Opik to make London's freakiest Halloween show even freakier
As though the thought of climbing into bed with Lembit Opik wasn’t scary enough, this year the former MP will be compering Brick Lane’s Halloween show “Cirque des Ombres“. Fronted by the the winner for Britsin’s Got Freaks Preacher Muad’dib, among the acts that Opik will introduce are light bulb eating, face drilling and fire [...]
