John, you are full of surprises. I thought this was what you'd had in mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndc7a4NbG5A

Breaking news: Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative Chief Whip and protagonist of 'Plebgate', has just resigned. The Curse of Gnome clearly now has a competitor. Sorry, John W., one down, many more to go. Osborne the fare-dodger?

Serves the bugger right for giving all my money away to African dictators.

How (un)funny it seems to me that the UK government is cutting everything from spending on the armed forces to benefits for the disabled but the big political row is about whether an MP used the word pleb or not.

Julius Caesar was a pleb. Pompey was a patrician and a lot of good it did him.

It may be worth a note, if not a rhyme-driven paean,
That as a mere Old Rugbeian Andrew Mitchell himself was relatively plebeian.
Cameron's replaced the phoney 'un
With an Old Etonian.

Bravo, Jerome! Roll on the inevitable Plebgate comp.

Thanks. Adrian. Perhaps it will be ticketgate now, or a combination of recent coalition clangers.