[Ann Drysdale]

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

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

[Jerome Betts]

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?

[John Whitworth]

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

[Adrian Fry]

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.

[John Whitworth]

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

[Jerome Betts]

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.

[Adrian Fry]

Bravo, Jerome! Roll on the inevitable Plebgate comp.

[Jerome Betts]

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