Christmas holiday poetry competition

Spectator readers have gone where seasoned pros Alice Oswald and John Kinsella feared to tread: by writing a poem about the present ascent of money. The entries for the last online poetry competition were of a typically witty standard, many thanks for submitting them. Particular praise goes to the poems written by Basil Ransome Davis, Sam Gwynn and Didi Mae Hand. But the winner of the prized bottle of Pol Roger is Felix Bungay for this amusing verse on Britain’s present financial ills:

‘Our monetary system isn’t sound. It’s built on very shaky ground.

Now as it all collapses, “blame capitalism” scream the chattering classes.
But free markets aren’t to blame, when central bankers run the game.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Don’t forget the Community Reinvestment Act.
Government has caused our ills, and sent us all the rising bills.
Bankers bailed out with taxpayer’s money, we’d all cry if it weren’t so funny.
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