Mick Twister

Mick Twister is an anagram of Twitmericks.

Mick writes limericks about the news on Twitter, pretty much daily, as @twitmericks. These are also reproduced below, with links to the relevant news stories.

He is the author of There Was an Old Geezer Called Caesar: A History of the World in 100 Limericks (Anova, 2013) and There Once Was a Man with Six Wives: Kings and Queens in Limericks (Pavilion, 2017)

He writes limericks with a biblical theme for the quarterly 197 Piccadilly magazine. http://www.sjp.org.uk/uploads/1/6/5/7/16572376/____pp197_autumn_2013smaller.pdf

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Defective defector

The member for Dover and Deal
Has flipped, showing Starmerite zeal,
But this doesn’t please
Some Labour MPs
To whom Elphicke’s views don’t appeal.

https://twitter.com/twitmericks/status/1788541812711325707?t=wDvG7t8VAdTk4gtPUUpXpA&s=19

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I’m an MP, get me out of here

Conservative member Mark Menzies
Rang up in the strangest of frenzies:
“Our slush fund must pay
Some bad guys 5K –
It won’t be for keepsies, just lenzies”.

thetimes.co.uk/article/28f948…

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

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Not so private members

A devious honeytrap app
Has caught more than one Tory chap
Since back in September*
One upstanding member
Was pictured unclothed in a snap
.

*Well, it may have been then!

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Degenerative AI

A chatbot that rose to a dare
Was caused by a user to swear
And led to admit
That DPD’s shit
(Its haiku was too, to be fair).

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Rebel without a clue

The Tory frontbencher Lee Anderson
Declares that the bill on Rwanda’s an
Inadequate measure
But listen up, treasure,
It’s just meant to be propaganda, son
.

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Wielding the Wax

With ex-PM Cameron back
To give foreign office a crack,
That Cleverly fella
Replaces Suella,
Whom Sunak has given the sack.

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Bone to pick

A member is facing suspension
For quite a severe contravention:
He showed an aide meanness
And also his penis,
That being the Bone of contention
.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67122669

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Shit Show

A woman who worked in a zoo
Put dung from her charges on view,
Curating the faeces
Of various species:
Her show is a load of old poo.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/07/like-something-from-bake-off-animal-poo-exhibition-opens-in-london?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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Silent fitness

The Lincolnshire force has denied
Reports of a mass homicide;
The bodies strewn round
Were there, police found,
For yoga, and nobody died.

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X marks the clot

A man who likes tweeting a turd,
Whose statements are often absurd,
Set out to wreck Twitter
By making it shitter
Then flipping its users the bird.

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