[Mary McLean]

Darn it, mine's several million lines too long:

The King Gove Bible

1 In the beginning Gove created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Gove moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And Gove said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And Gove saw the light, that it was good: and Gove divided the light from the darkness. etc etc

[Adrian Fry]

Michael Gove

My poem is too new to be a classic,
Though its author is a male, white and rich,
But if I appoint some right wing geriatrics
It should make the syllabus without a hitch.

My poem is traditional, if modern,
Containing Latin tags and thees and thous
And all the other guff that's been forgotten
In a bid to make poems relevant to now.

My poem will just suit a chap at Eton,
He'll get the references or crib them from a chum.
It'll leave the comprehensive oiks well beaten
So let Gove become a classic, bang the drum!

[Jerome Betts]

Vince Cable

A business question needs an answer?
Consult this consummate old dancer -
But, if you really want the figures,
No miked-up hacks, or dirty diggers,
Or claims you caught me sticking needles
In models of the Barclay tweedles!

Nor, though the Bird is far from perky
And in the polls appears a turkey,
Sly hints that ultimate survival
Demands I stand as open rival
To coalition curate's eggery,
That toxic orange cocktail, Cleggery!

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[Lance Levens]

Where are my fellow Americans? Pony up here, Marion and Bob, Chris et alii. Let all your vitriol out in numbers.

[Brian Allgar]

Well, Lance, you know how it is in England. We find world events a bit parochial.

[Marion Shore]

Lance, I don't do politics. Too depressing.

[Adrian Fry]

I don't think entries for this comp need by all that political. I can imagine a good entry might be a love poem by George W Bush, with all his customary mangling of language. Or how about some doggerel about the life of a hockey mom from Sarah Palin?