7 Comments

• David Wright 5th Mar '11 - 12:12pm

  The 1990’s recruitment video, amateurish as it is by current standards, dates from when Lembit was a valuable member of the Liberal Democrat team.

  Sadly, the current video accurately shows him as someone who thinks he’s the leader of a movement, but actually has no followers. (Apart from a long-suffering girlfriend and a flat-mate, if I remember the original series correctly. Not sure that part applies.)

  BTW what happened to the Recruitment video’s colour balance in conversion from video tape? I may have one of the original VHS tapes somewhere if anyone wants to have another go at converting it.

• Nich Starling 5th Mar '11 - 12:21pm

  Indeed, Lembit was hailed as one of the party’s very best activists. I read once about him recruiting members to the party on long train journeys. Sadly, he got in to parliament and became a z list celeb and showed little if those skills he was famed for.

• James Blessing 5th Mar '11 - 12:40pm

  So an attempt to woo the hard let vote…. 🙂

• Paul Walter 5th Mar '11 - 5:25pm

  Robert Lindsay should sue.

• Hywel 5th Mar '11 - 6:35pm

  There are great parallels between Lembit and Gavin Henson.

  Both have had their moments
  Both exceptionally talented,
  Both with a fatal flaw of loving the celebrity limelight too much,
  Both got to s**g iconic welsh women,
  Neither lived up to their talents,
  Both thought a move to London would revitalise their career.

  (mind you Gavin has actually delivered at least once when the pressure was on
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glj0O_EL3o4
  any excuse to post this :-))

• Alec Macph 6th Mar '11 - 10:04am

  Surely he could have asked some of the propagandists on PresTV for advice?

  ~alec

• Old Codger Chris 7th Mar '11 - 1:28am

  Having listened to Paddy’s remarks at the very end of the recruitment video, will the person who recruited Nick Clegg step forward and confess?