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 GreenwellWhen 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
My experience of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and Muchness of Montecito, has I imagine been quite a common one. I started out full of enthusiasm that this apparently self-made counter-jumper (actually expensively educated by her poor doofus of a dad) was bringing a soupçon of style to the old Windsors. When it transpired that
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