Competition: Political verse

In Competition No. 2754 you were invited to submit an example from the Selected Poems of a contemporary politician.

Politician-poets have met with varying degrees of success. While Jimmy Carter’s efforts prompted literary heavyweight Harold Bloom to pronounce him ‘in my judgment literally the worst poet in the United States’, the youthful dabblings of Barack Obama have been judged more kindly. Closer to home, Dominique de Villepin has published several well received collections of poetry.

So how did your chosen victims fare? Step forward, Dennis Skinner, George Galloway, Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair. Brian Murdoch as Alex Salmond channelling William McGonagall takes £35. The rest get £30.

T’will be in the year of two thousand and fourteen
That we shall have the greatest referendum ever
seen,
And Bonnie Scotland shall from Albion become free
For the first time since we took them over in six-
teen-o-three
When wee King Jamie sat on the English throne.