Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Following my post about the fabulous call to modernity, fraternity and Britishness by Borders and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne, we are launching OK's summer limerick competition. The limerick must begin with:
"I met an eloquent lady in Edgbaston."
and end with:
"if we only put our minds to it."
As I report, Byrne writes about how he met "an exceptionally eloquent lady from Edgebaston" who convinced him that all we needed to to so sort out Britain for the best is to: "put our minds to it". The Minister describes how he was immediately convinced.
The winner will get a free copy of The Athenian Option. Competition closes Saturday, 30th August.
Comments
A most eloquent lady of Edgebaston
Was entranced by Gordon Brown’s carry on
Inspired by his grits
She declared "All can be Brits!
If only we now put our minds to it!"
I met an eloquent lady in Edgebaston
Who I asked what it meant to be Briton
She replied with an air
"I'm an Aussie, don't care
You can be too if you put your minds to it!"
Hat-tip Guido
(From the under-consciousness of G.Brown)
I met an eloquent lady from Edgbaston
Whose eyes I really got lost in
We put our minds to it
But Oh England, we blew it
And now we’re all stuck with Dave Cameron
Brown's Empire Clothing Dilemma:
I met an eloquent Lady in Egbaston
who asked why I had no skates on
It took me a while
Then I gave her my smile
in remembering I had nothing else on
So I asked what to do
and she gave me a clue
that naked was not going to do it
But it may take me a while
before you give me your smile
if we only put our minds to it.
(Rule 101: There are no rules!)
Rule 101 is fine by OK
I met an eloquent lady in Edgbaston
Who like Enoch's constituent in Wolverhampton
Stirred dreams of rivers of blood,
But said you, Liam, can stop the flood,
And we'll get on fine if we only put our minds to it.
I met an eloquent lady in Edgbaston,
But her gene pool was not a deep vast one,
Her comment below,
was tabloid and slow,
"If we only put our minds to it", I hope is her last one.
From Joan and Judith
An eloquent lady of Brum
Considered the Minister scum
“Though you put your mind to it
We all see right through it
You’re just banging the nationalist drum!”
I vote for Dougthedug's effort so far.
Bit of a joint effort this one....
I met an eloquent lady in Edgebaston
Who said "Liam, you're puling a fast one
With this Britishness thing
It's Brown you're aping
But when we put our minds to it
Us voters see through it
And that's why you're not going to last son!"
I met an eloquent lady in Edgbaston;
The candidate, an iconoclast on
The Lords' abolition,
A return to sortition,
Her speech left us speechless in aston
ishment. And the prevailing wind, she'd intuit;
“Hereditary peers? Well, they blew it,
We need revolution,
A fresh constitution,
And we can win if we put our minds to it.”
An eloquent lady of Edgebaston
Desired the Athenian Option
So she said to Liam Byrne
Stand up and be firm
It’s the difference between spin and a hard-on
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