In Competition No. 3003 you were invited to supply clerihews about contemporary politicians. In an enormous and excellent entry, popular rhymes included ‘charmer’ and ‘Starmer’; ‘Boris’ and ‘Horace’; ‘Sturgeon’ and ‘burgeon’; ‘Corbyn’ and ‘absorbing’. Putin likes to ‘put the boot in’, apparently, and that David Davis is, by common consent, a ‘rara avis’.
There was much to admire and it was tricky to sift the best from the merely good. Those that made the cut are printed below and earn their authors £8 each. Commiserations to the rest.
Alex Salmond
Has been grilled, gutted and gammoned
And got porridge poured over his wee bit of glory
By a big evil Tory.
Frank McDonald
Ed Balls
Rises and falls:
They say he’s a Blairite
Fred Astaire-ite
David Silverman
Angela Merkel
Is one of the (small) magic circle
Whose country rates ’em
As statesmen.
D.A. Prince
Ian Paisley
Ranted crazily.
But is Ian Paisley junior
Loonier?
Nicholas Stone
Theresa May
No longer holds sway —
For seeing off Corbyn and his iffy cult
Proved too BLOODY DIFFICULT.
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