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# 'An eloquent lady in Edgbaston' - competition update
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/an-eloquent-lady-in-edgbaston-competition-update/
- Published: 2008-08-23T10:08:22.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:29.000Z
- Author: Tom Griffin
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Tom Griffin (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** OK's summer limerick competition ([details here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom-theme/anthony-barnett/2008/08/16/an-eloquent-lady-in-edgbaston-ok-summer-competition)) 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*