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May 14, 2008

Lembit Opik caption competition

Ice_wall_trio_2Lembit Opik and Tory MP Julian Brazier together in a cave. What are they thinking? 9am update, amongst the best:

George Ball : If only he had had a copy of ‘Risk, Responsibility and Regulation’, Trotsky might still be alive today.

A Jones: 'The Borrowers' decide to help fill a large cavity which had given rise to Gordon Brown's pained expressions, in recent weeks.

Hadleigh Roberts: The Credit Crunch won't get us here

Saturday update: This humiliation has reached Mr Brazier's local newspaper

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Cheeky Boys stag night proves less interesting than hoped!

Posted by: kie | 14 May 2008 18:05:06

a couple of picks in a cave

Posted by: Steve in Telford | 14 May 2008 18:06:52

If only he had had a copy of ‘Risk, Responsibility and Regulation’, Trotsky might still be alive today.

Posted by: George Ball | 14 May 2008 18:19:15

Three r's displayed by two arses

Posted by: Jonathan Spencer | 14 May 2008 19:22:18

They're wondering if they should invite the PM to a 'cave-in'

Posted by: Dave Oliver | 14 May 2008 19:29:34

No! You can't have this to light the fire.

Posted by: Mad Max | 14 May 2008 20:02:06

One more crack about my tie and I´ll shove this pipe right up your XXXX

Posted by: jim cormick | 14 May 2008 21:46:50

"I knew Gordon Brown had dug himself into a big hole but I didn't think it went this deep Buddy"

Posted by: Nigel Brookhouse | 14 May 2008 22:15:27

"The Credit Crunch won't get us here!"

Posted by: Hadleigh Roberts | 14 May 2008 22:47:12

"I'd rather be down here with no pick, than be down here with Lembit Opik"

Posted by: Jared | 14 May 2008 23:36:06

Bite Me!

Posted by: Fudler | 14 May 2008 23:39:02

Lembit to Julian-'Look this house needs to be realistic as possible - we need to feel the pain of our constituents, suffer as they do with the rising cost of fuel, really understand their plight'
Julian-'But Lembit aren't you taking things a bit far - there is ice forming on the inside of the walls'
Lembit-'Don't worry, at the next constituency meeting I'm intending to show them how to use an ice axe. I've been told some have been to be climbing the walls to get out'
Julian- 'I think they mean Britain - Lembit'

Posted by: A Jones | 15 May 2008 01:33:21

"Well this seems a good place to bury our careers."

Posted by: Malcolm Granger | 15 May 2008 02:33:11

'The Borrowers' decide to help fill a large cavity which had given rise to Gordon Brown's pained expressions, in recent weeks.

Posted by: A Jones | 15 May 2008 02:47:55

Brown has hit rock bottom, and now he is drilling into the bedrock, we just wanted to speak to the PM...

Posted by: Sugar free | 15 May 2008 09:08:15

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work we go!

Posted by: E Hart | 15 May 2008 09:32:51

Are you sure there's enough light down here for the camaras.

Posted by: Simon Marshland | 15 May 2008 09:41:21

Are you sure there's enough light down here for the camaras.

Posted by: Simon Marshland | 15 May 2008 09:42:41

"Look! A dropped copy of Gordon's bedtime reading - further proof that he must be deep down this hole, even if he's caved in. Onward, rescue team!"

Posted by: pb | 15 May 2008 09:53:24

We are the cheeky boys...

Posted by: Ellie Tregear | 15 May 2008 10:22:02

Report put on ice by government found!

Posted by: Elizabeth | 15 May 2008 10:25:24

Caroline Flint decides to take the subtext of this photograph seriously.

Posted by: A Jones | 15 May 2008 11:05:12

Just another day at the office...

Posted by: JR | 15 May 2008 11:09:31

MPs not impressed by large bounty being given to banks.

Posted by: A Jones | 15 May 2008 11:42:11

"We must infiltrate Northmoor and find the plutonium! For the sake of Gemma!"

Posted by: Ashley Pomeroy | 15 May 2008 12:56:55

Burmese authorities decide to refuse entry to British rescue workers for failing to have the correct paperwork.

Posted by: A Jones | 15 May 2008 13:24:51

Lembit......"Sh1t. My 'Anne Summers' Olympic torch has flickered its last!"

Julie......"Extinguished by the powers invested in me by this R, R and R document"

Posted by: bioldept | 15 May 2008 13:46:15

If we had the Latin we wouldn't be down here hackin' and hewin'.

Posted by: Tom | 15 May 2008 21:50:43

If we had the Latin we wouldn't be down here hackin' and hewin'.

Posted by: Tom | 15 May 2008 21:51:38

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