Liberals in verse

Satirist Craig Brown has produced 22 clerihews for the New Statesman. One of them will interest Liberals:

John Maynard Keynes
Helped workers lose their chains
And, by way of relaxation,
Wrote The Inflation of Currency As a Method of Taxation.

The clerihew verse form was invented by the writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley when he was still a schoolboy. His best known is this:

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, “I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul’s.”

We need more of this sort of thing in the party. To start the ball rolling:

Nick Clegg
Is quite often partial to a scotch egg
As is Vince Cable
When he is able.

Or this:

Lembit Öpik
Likes to be seen out with a young chick
But the thing preferred by Mark Oaten
Is verboten.

Or this:

Alex Carlile
Considers civil liberties are no longer worthwhile
Hence his method for fighting terror
Is an error.

Or this:

Jo Grimond
Was very slim and
Extremely tall
Which is very useful when your parliamentary party is extremely small.

Next week: Liberal haiku.