Lib Dem Voice-reading habitués of the online Telegraph and fans of novelist Alexander McCall Smith may well have been asking themselves this question already. For the uninitiated, Mr McCall Smith is “writing his first ever online novel Corduroy Mansions exclusively for Telegraph.co.uk”, and one of the characters is named Oedipus Snark. Here’s his CV:
Name: Oedipus Snark
Age: 40
Profession: Possibly the first ever nasty Liberal Democrat MP.
Significant relationships: his ego; his lover Barbara Ragg.
Likes: Himself, wriggling out of prior engagements.
Dislikes: Putting himself out for other people, journalists.
You can catch up with the serial here. Libellous suggestions as to Mr Snark’s true identity will be deleted. In any case, this is purely a work of fiction: how could any Lib Dem MP be nasty?
(Hat-tip: James Graham).
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5 Comments
I thought our opponents on the ground thought all our MPs were nasty?
Opik snared us?
Carlile (Öpik’s predecessor) was a very effective attack dog when he was in the Commons.
Allow me a brief snarky fact-checking moment (hah!)
> writing his first ever online novel Corduroy Mansions
I think the entire Scotland Street series was actually available through The Scotsman website (it was certainly serialised in the paper) although you needed a paid subscription to read it.
One assumes Mr McCall Smith has close friends in the Welsh weather forecasting community.
Say what you like about Mr Snark, but “nasty” he ain’t.