Totnes Liberal Democrats welcome Lembit Opik M.P.to Totnes.

Liberal Democrat M.P. Lembit Opik, the party's shadow secretary for Northern Ireland and spokesperson for Wales was warmly welcomed to and auction of promises held by Totnes Liberal Democrats at the Kingsbridge Inn, Totnes, last Friday ( March 12th.)

Lembit demonstrated his usual skills in cajoling the maximum amount of money from a willing audience who reveled in his humour.. Promises ranging from visits to Westminster and the European Parliament, holidays in France and the delights of home cooking were soon snapped up to make sure all fund raising records for the constituency were broken.

Commenting afterwards Totnes PPC, Mike Treleaven said:

'We had a brilliantly successful evening raising over £2000 for party funds and it was a good social occasion too. An auction of promises is an excellent way of raising money, particularly if you have someone like Lembit 'bullying' people to part with their cash in the nicest possible way. I always marvel at the willingness of our parliamentarians to help on occasions like this - Lembit ended up driving 750 miles on Friday to keep his promise to be with us in deepest Devon and I am extremely grateful to him.'