Spectator competition winners: ‘’Twas brexit and the merkyl foes Did corbinate ’gainst lyb and labe’: nonsense verse on the referendum

Competitors were invited to submit nonsense verse on the EU referendum. Honourable mentions, in a strong field, go to Charles Westwood, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Jennifer Moore, Andrew Zeyfert, John Priestland, Alan Millard, Jim Davies, Martin Parker and Mike Morrison. The winners pocket £25 apiece and Bill Greenwell snaffles £30.

Bill Greenwell When mithimade is allbijove Beneath a grayling moon Then hoey is the borigove And wethers are in spoon

When dunkum smit is gallowade Between the moggs and rees Ah join the giselous parade That bothams up the crease

How priti are the villiers Out whitting in the dales! How teehee utlier the furze And dahlia the mails!

Now tebbitly the daltreys sound To icke a trimble margin Now pole the deling kippers round That all may be faragin

Frank McDonald ’Twas brexit and the merkyl foes Did corbinate ’gainst lyb and labe. All quipsy were the borisgoves And the eukalips outgrabe.