Tony Blair 1 - 3

Boris 50 -1

Lib Dem general election victory 1000-1

Lib Dem victory in next Council election 1,000,000 -1

Now poor old Ming must know how Caesar felt as the knives went in.

Lembit Opik 500-1 as Fib Dem leader. What odds are the bookies giving on the Cheeky Girls?

Give it to Charles Kennedy, ..... and give him a big knife to use.

And who is the next leader to fall. any bets for Gordon Brown the challenging king breaker, who got rid of Tony and even got him to stand down as an MP.

Wini didn't like that at all

God save us two ex journalists up for the job,thats the end of the Lib Dems then,somebody better start a new party soon,Charles Kennedy must be laughing his head of,gave the Libs a chance and they f""ked it,and what a bad excuse from Ming,he just could not cut it,bye bye your no lose,your a traitor and should never have run for the job,you single handedly have draged the party down,thanks Ming.

There are two rather obvious problems with this article.

1) "Party President Simon Hughes...is also expected to throw his hat in the ring."

How do you deduce that? Was it from his cunningly ambiguous statement yesterday when he categorically ruled out standing for the leadership under all circumstances?

2) "The eccentric Welsh MP is seen as a possible rank outsider candidate. Convinced that the earth is in danger of being hit by an asteroid."

I suppose it should be no skin off the nose of a Nat like me if you want to ridicule Lembit Opik, but the last time I checked there was a scientific consensus that the earth has in fact been hit by space objects millions of times in the past - sometimes with devastating consequences - and it would be rather more "eccentric" to think that it was magically going to stop happening now just to suit us.