Spectator competition winners: ‘We the three chief Brexiteers are…’: carols with a topical twist

This year’s yuletide challenge was to supply a carol with a topical twist. ‘In the bleak midwinter’ just about captures the general tenor of the entry, although George Simmers injected a lighter note with his invitation to ‘Deck Ed Balls with boughs of holly…’ and W.J. Webster, too, was looking on the relatively bright side: ‘God rest ye merry, gentlemen,/ Let nothing you dismay;/ The world is not on course to end/ That January day…’ Commendations go to Albert Black, Gordan Macintyre, Paul Carpenter, Tracy Davidson and Ian White. The winners, printed below, take £25 each. And the festive fiver is Martin Parker’s. Merry Christmas, one and all — I look forward to being impressed and amused by your entries over the year to come.

Martin Parker We the three chief Brexiteers are Charged by May to follow a star, Little knowing where we’re going, Or when or quite how or how far.

Oh, oh! great our cause and its reward.