The latest challenge called for love poems written by one contemporary politician to another.
Virginia Price Evans, writing on behalf of Jeremy Corbyn, channelled Betjeman in a bid to woo the PM: ‘Theresa M May, Theresa M May, I sigh and I die for our special day…’. Frank Upton’s Jeremy Hunt clearly thought that a spot of Eliot might melt the heart of Baroness Primarolo: ‘In the room the women come and go/ Talking of “Dawn Primarolo”…’. And W.J. Webster imagined Nicola Sturgeon making eyes across the Channel at M. Macron:
The Auld Alliance, sealed long since, Served both our nations well: As two made one again, my prince, We’d give the English hell.
The winners, who were tricky to choose in a witty and accomplished entry, are rewarded with £25. Frank McDonald pockets £30.Frank McDonald Wee gallus queen without a croon, Weel-versed in law and smartly shoon, More canny than this auld buffoon, A feisty fish, I oft-times look ye up and doon And sweetly wish.
Ah, you are blest compared wi me, A fighter fair for a’ tae see.
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