Presenting the Lib Dem version of Gordon Brown’s "all the talents" – promotion for Lembit "Asteroid Watcher" Opik and Norman "UFO spotter" Baker.Lembit Opik with Cheeky Girl Gabriela IrimiaLem

In November of last year, discussing Lembit Opik's prospects after losing the Lib Dem Presidential election, I wrote: He now needs to take himself more seriously in order to persuade others to take him more seriously. He has a Westminster seat to retain and will no doubt return to the Lib Dem front bench soon. Otherwise... As I write this, Neil and Christine Hamilton, as if in dreadful warnin...

Eccentric Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik has announced to the world that he has 'found' God. A spokesman for God responded 'The Almighty wishes to distance himself from Mr Opik, and is sensitive to the bad press that this announcement could bring'. Mr Opik was quoted as asking, "If you're an atheist, how do you know you're right". Well Lembit, I don't. I just prefer to l...

Forget the big tax battle this arvo,  (which bar talk suggests is in the bag) the only vote Nick Clegg and his cabal are worried about here at Lib Dem conference is Lembit Opik's bid for world domination - starting with his party's presidency. Lembit Opik on his Segway sccoter The election doesn't even take place until next month, but Opik is doing his best to sh...

Labour isn’t the only party to have lost a front bench spokesman in the last couple of days - the Lib Dems have as well. Ruth Kelly resigned from the Cabinet, and Lembit Opik has quit the Lib Dem front bench. Opik, by far the most well-known Lib Dem, has quit to concentrate on trying to

Lembit Opik has vowed to give his full backing to the Liberal Democrat peer who beat him in the contest to become the party's new president. Ros Scott won 20,736 votes (72%) to Opik's 6,247 (22%) in a postal ballot of all Lib Dem members and will take up the post from January 1. Chandila Fernando came third on 1,799 votes (6%). Scott is a Suffolk councillor, vice-chairman of the Local Go...

I have been pressing Camden Council to step in and prevent the closure of Albany Street Post Office, also in today's Daily Mirror "Mandy Post Office Shuts." Here's the letter I wrote to the Lib Dem/Tory leadership, normally very active on Post Office issues in the borough, to ask if our lawyers could step in to injuct the Post Office Ltd not to close until a suitable replacement was foun...

Lib Dem Voice has invited party presidential hopefuls Chandila Fernando, Lembit Opik and Ros Scott to make their pitches for how they’d improve Lib Dem membership. In a series of articles, they will set out their ambitions and how they would deliver on them. You can find out more about how to vote in the election

The BBC website gives us the low-down on the various ins and outs of the minor shadow cabinet reshuffle and a new entrant to the Lib Dem presidential race: Lembit Opik is standing down as Liberal Democrat housing spokesman to concentrate on his campaign to succeed Simon Hughes as the party’s president. A Lib Dem spokesman

Lembit Opik is quitting the Lib Dem front bench to campaign for the party's presidency.