Tepid on the heels of BM's limerick efforts some time ago (see here) Celebrate the appointment of our two glorious leaders on the world stage: write a Haiku.

For inspiration, here they are in all their glory, and here's a few lines of doggerel to get you started:


Most interesting thing
And useful at that, his name:
Five syllables long


The magician says
Pick a card, pick any card,
Anyone but Blair


A woman and man
In the glare of autumn sun
But who are they both





BM

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Twinkletoes entertainer Lionel Blair has reacted with outrage at a French-led snub to his ambitions to become EU president.

The septegenarian star of stage and the small screen is understood to be 'incandescent' at his effective early exclusion from the race to be the continent's figurehead.

Close friends say he would have been the best head the EU could have wished for.

But while it was clear he was now not going to come first, he was not in the habit of withdrawing, they confided.

He still hopes to pull it off in the face of his critics.

With Blair all but out of the running, Christopher Biggins is now favoured to get the plum job.