Competition No 3838
Set by Dipak Ghosh, 28 June
Following the example of Prince Charles ("I serve" and "Evil on him who thinks evil"), we asked you for a pair of mottoes for other coats of arms.
Report by Ms de Meaner
As usual, a few souls managed to keep up their standards for extended periods of time, while others subsided after one mega-effort. £5 book tokens to each of the singletons, £10 to Katie Mallett, Bill Greenwell and Michael Cregan, and £15 plus the Tesco vouchers to Adrian Fry.
Tony Blair
Collective responsibility consolidated.
He who spins it wins it.
Gordon Brown
Patience, Prudence, patience.
The devil is in the detail.
Alistair Darling
Are we there yet?
Mind the gap.
Dr John Reid
Patience, patients.
No fire without smokers.
John Prescott
It's all for all and all for one simultaneously.
Why keep a bulldog and chew a wasp yourself?
Adrian Fry
Gordon Brown
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Nil desperandum.
John Prescott
Two is better than one.
Actions speak louder than words.
Katie Mallett
John Prescott
Temper fidelis.
Ecce thump.
Maurice Saatchi
Beats working.
Supporting any hoarding.
Bill Greenwell
David Blunkett
Don't let the ASBOs grind you down.
There's no place like home - now go there.
Michael Howard
The night shall not hide me.
Not my success, but the failures of others.
Michael Cregan
Tony Blair
Stand by the totality of what I said.
I swerve.
John Griffiths-Colby
Michael Howard
Who scares, wins.
Darkness visible.
D A Prince
John Reid
Smoke gets in your eyes.
Let them eat cake.
Ian Birchall
Peter Hain
Once a radical is quite enough.
Speak first, backtrack later.
Lydia Shaxberd
John Prescott
I speak in tongues.
Astra per ad ardua.
Watson Weeks
Michael Howard
Let all be Transylvanians now.
I choose.
Richard Pierce
Gordon Brown
Succession is success.
Get it in writing.
J Seery
No 3841 Set by Margaret Rogers
The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
And order'd their estate.
"All Things Bright and Beautiful" encapsulates Conservative thinking (more or less). We want verses that do the same for Labour or another party.
Entries to be in by 29 July (to appear in issue dated 9 August). E-mail: comp@newstatesman.co.uk
