Yesterday’s Observer feature – the revealing ‘This much I know’ – featured ubiquitous Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik. Here’s a couple of excerpts: The press has created for me a persona as a wacky guy who goes out with beautiful women, and there were times in my life when I would have paid for that image.

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

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...

It looks as though Montgomeryshire's finest comic export is at it again. Lembit Opik has been caught out in the latest expenses scandal for claiming over £100,000 for a flat he was barely using and renting it out. Lembit Opik lived with his then girlfriend Sian Lloyd while renting out his taxpayer-funded London home to his friend and party agent. Over seven years, the Liberal Democrat M...

Partly, admittedly, because I set up a Google Alert of his name earlier this year during the Presidential election, Lembit Opik never stops getting in my face. His latest interview was in Wales On Sunday yesterday (odd since just a week ago Lembit was dismissing the same paper as “poor use of [his]

The Sun newspaper reports today that Lembit Opik is signed up for the next series of Celebrity Big Brother, which starts in January. You really wonder how low can he get. The Sun very helpfully shows its readers how Lembit might look in a leotard. If I was the Conservative Agent in Montgomery, I would be using that photo more than the one of my own candidate. No doubt, there will be even more ammu...

Lembit Opik will present a show on the controversial Iranian-owned satellite channel, Press TV.

Was driving to do some photos at Exeter races yesterday (tough life ;-p) when I heard an episode of the Radio 4 Comedy Fags, Mags and Bags. It's a sit com based in an Indian run corner shop. Yesterday included a plot about the upwardly mobile son inventing his own version of the George Foreman Grill. He created the Lembit Opik Pitta Heater - 'because Lembit Opik is not just a Liberal Dem...

This has been sent to every LibDem with an email address as Lembit's final pitch for votes in his LibDem Presidential Campaign. My particular favourite is the sentence that describes how he has the ability to inspire people to achieve things they never felt possible, followed immediately by the sentence describing his humility. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lembit Opik (Libera...