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&lt;strong&gt;Tom Griffin (London, &lt;a href=&quot;/ourkingdom&quot;&gt;OK&lt;/a&gt;):  &lt;/strong&gt;Back in August, Borders and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/ourkingdom-theme/anthony-barnett/2008/08/15/magical-thinking-on-britishness&quot;&gt;provided the theme&lt;/a&gt; for our &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/ourkingdom-theme/anthony-barnett/2008/08/16/an-eloquent-lady-in-edgbaston-ok-summer-competition&quot;&gt;summer limerick competition&lt;/a&gt;, when he recalled how &amp;quot;In my conversations around Britain, I met an especially &lt;em&gt;eloquent lady in Edgbaston&lt;/em&gt;. She said, ‘We can learn to live together, &lt;em&gt;if we only put our minds to it&lt;/em&gt;.’ I think she is right. And I think we should approach this task with an air of great confidence.&amp;quot; 
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OK readers certainly did approach the task in that spirit. not least in the case of the winning entry, which we can now announce below the fold: 
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	I met an eloquent lady in Edgbaston,&lt;br /&gt;
	But her gene pool was not a deep vast one,&lt;br /&gt;
	Her comment below,&lt;br /&gt;
	was tabloid and slow,&lt;br /&gt;
	&amp;quot;If we only put our minds to it&amp;quot;, I hope is her last one.  
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Congratulations to Dougthedug, who wins a copy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imprint.co.uk/books/9781845401399.html&quot;&gt;The Athenian Option&lt;/a&gt; by Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty. 
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