Tom Griffin (London, OK): OK's summer limerick competition (details here) has reached the halfway mark. There still a week to go until August 30th for anyone who wants to trying their hand at bringing out the latent poetry in Liam Byrne's prose. Here are some of the best entries so far:

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. 

DougtheDug

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.”

Justin Pickard

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

Anonymous